Dont buy gas on May 15th

tommudd · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 12:47 pm

OK OK I know its kind of silly but just got this email and they are trying to convince people not to buy gas on May 15th in hopes it will drive down the prices a little bit. They think it will force the companies to lower the price.

If you think it may work then follow it, me I am full in both mine and the state car so does't make a difference.

it states that if all 73,000,000 internet users didn't buy 30 to 50 bucks worth of gas on May 15th it would take 2,292,000,000 out of the oil companies profits,

Do what you wish I have already spent my 50 for the week! :twisted:

03kjsport · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 12:54 pm

ill pass it along!

Inc · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 12:59 pm

No problem. Consider it done!

pokefan · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 1:14 pm

This again huh? I'm sure a few people follow it but you know the way this is set up it MAY hurt every gas company for one whole day!

The way it should be done is get everyone to boycott ONE gas company ALL the time. Then that company is forced to do something and others follow suite. Even then the chances are slim that anything would be done.

Jeep Dawg · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 1:21 pm

YES AND NO.

Another major reason for the prices is due to the US dollar becoming weaker in the markets here and over seas.

Big oil is raising the prices too for a profit, but look at the stock market and our dollar against another. Our dollar is not as strong as it was before the housing market slump and mortgage companies who drove us this way.

Look at what the truckers did along I-95 in new jersey a few weeks ago, they brought the turnpike down to a 25 MPH crawl and the only thing that did was take me longer to get home.

I don't mean to be a (RICHARD), but there are other factors to the crude oil prices

sleeve84028 · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 1:33 pm

These things don't work.. If we really want to change the price of oil, we have to stop using it all together. And trust me, at these prices - there are plenty of people out there trying to figure out solutions to the current energy needs of America.

Sir Sam · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 1:58 pm

Oh boy, then I better go fill up today and the day after tomorrow!

tjkoen01 · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 2:04 pm

sleeve84028 wrote:

These things don't work.. If we really want to change the price of oil, we have to stop using it all together. And trust me, at these prices - there are plenty of people out there trying to figure out solutions to the current energy needs of America.

exactly, the oil companies will still make money selling you the gas you didn't buy on May 15th. If everyone didn't drive on May 15th, then maybe that would make a difference, but considering the other economic factors (not going to work), chances are you'd come out behind.

If you want to pay less for gas, don't buy as much!

sleeve84028 · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 2:44 pm

Sir Sam wrote:

Oh boy, then I better go fill up today and the day after tomorrow!

Wait.. What if we all filled up and then parked our cars at the boat launch? I'm going sailing and that usually makes me forget about the price of gas

VTNomad · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 3:00 pm

Filled up today, hope that gets me through tomorrow. Who knows...I drive a gas guzzling SUV.

Jeep4me99 · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 3:43 pm

i'll make sure to give the gas station the middle finger as i push the KJ by with a line of honking anoyed people lined up behind me.

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 4:12 pm

Got $40 worth yesterday. That should do me for a month or so.

Albert · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 4:12 pm

If you think about it, this can't and won't do anything. Everybody that needs the gas will get it either the day before, or the day after. The same amount of gas gets bought. Just not on that particular day. At the end of the month when monthly sales/$$$ is calculated there is no difference.

pokefan · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 4:20 pm

Albert wrote:

If you think about it, this can't and won't do anything. Everybody that needs the gas will get it either the day before, or the day after. The same amount of gas gets bought. Just not on that particular day. At the end of the month when monthly sales/$$$ is calculated there is no difference.

Which is exactly why I said people should target ONE gas company, not all of them. I agree this won't do anything in the long run.

Albert · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 4:32 pm

pokefan wrote:

Albert wrote:

If you think about it, this can't and won't do anything. Everybody that needs the gas will get it either the day before, or the day after. The same amount of gas gets bought. Just not on that particular day. At the end of the month when monthly sales/$$$ is calculated there is no difference.

Which is exactly why I said people should target ONE gas company, not all of them. I agree this won't do anything in the long run.

That would actually make more sence. Mobil is the biggest Oil Co., and most expensive prices at the pump around here anyway. I already don't go there for gas..... on any day.

tan's2002kjlimited · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 6:35 pm

It's easy for me to figure, at 16 mpg, at $4.00 gal = $0.25 a mile. 20 mile R/T to work, $5.00 per day.
I 'm just under 1/2, I'll wait till Thursday.

MiniDevil · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 7:21 pm

thats the most pointless thing ever. If you buy extra the day before or the day after, profits dont change. A lot of gas stations dont get gas deliveries every day. Even if they did, the amount of gas you use every week doesn't change. So while they may lose 2 million dollars in sales one day, they gain 2.3 million in sales the next day because of rising gas prices.

InCommando · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 7:35 pm

Pokefan seems to have the only idea that might do something.

I nominate Valero. It is owned by a crackpot dictator who controls every aspect from production to distribution. He cannot blame any outside force for his prices.

I have to throw this out there, too, though:

Everyone who has a 401K, pension plan, mutual fund, etc... is probably making money off of oil in some way. Despite the political cartoons to the contray, there is not a room with 5 guys who own all of the oil companies sitting among bags of cash. These are publicly traded comapnies and profit, after all, is the American way.

ATXKJ · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 8:28 pm

No - Valero is New York Stock exchange headquartered in San Antonio

Citgo - In September, 1986, Southland sold a 50 percent interest in CITGO to Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. PDVSA acquired the remaining half of CITGO in January, 1990.

I shredded my Citgo card when I found out.

myjeepwalks · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 8:47 pm

tommudd wrote:

Do what you wish I have already spent my 50 for the week! :twisted:

I wish that's all i spent on gas! I'm at a minimum of $120 per week!! :twisted:

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