If you didnt buy gas today

[carsensejoe]

thank you for doing your part

[rennigade]

I'm not sure why groups of people like to pick random days and tell everyone not to fill up with gas. This accomplishes nothing and has absolutely no effect on the oil companies. If 10,000 people need gas but refuse to fill up on that particular day, what is going to happen is they are either going to fill up the day before, or the day after. Not to mention in the meantime 10,000 more people will need gas and will fill up the day after the "strike."

The only people being affected by this is the consumers wanting to fill up their tanks. It makes no sense.

[momof1in150]

Hate to tell you but not buying gas on a certain day is an urban legend

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Don't Buy Gas on May 15

[Vapors]

I heard about this on my local news but I don't think it will have any affect. I figure instead of selling $100 every day their stats at worst will look like:

100, 100, 150, 0, 150, 100, 100.

They still sold the same amount of gas for the week. It's just people had to wait in lines on 2 of the days.

[Aleta]

My local news station said that after doing this on May 15th of last year that the gas dropped .30 per gallon. I called my husband and reminded him. Many people didn't know anything about it.

The truth is unless we're willing to put ourselves on a gas budget the way we do the rest of our finances; we're not going to accomplish anything. I'd say take what you normally pay and try to use less per month. That definitely would make a difference. I'm definitely not driving as much. I'm waiting to do errands on the same day.

[greedy4chips]

As others have said, these 'Gas Outs' do not harm the gas companies whatsoever. Only by using less gas overall, can you 'hurt' them. And the amount of 'hurt' is not going to be so drastic to motivate them to drop their prices unless the cost of gas drops.

Gas and oil prices are based on supply and demand. If you demand less then the price will eventually fall accordingly, but they will not lose money on gas they have already produced.

People just need to learn to save gas by limiting the non-essential driving.

My big plan to save gas is to revamp the US postal delivery system. Instead of delivering mail to my house 6 days per week, why not go to a M-W-F or T-Th-Sat service. I would argue that most people do not need daily pick up or delivery service of their mail. Businesses would need to adjust for the decrease in outgoing mail, but they should be able to cope as well.

This would cut gas consumption in half for the postal service. Each current delivery person would still have a job. Instead of working 6 days, they would each deliver 3 days per week and could even have their hourly wage increased (doubled) so they do not lose income.

The whole purpose is to eliminate half of the millions of gallons of gas that are used each day to deliver mail! Now that would lower gas prices temporarily until OPEC cut production to keep the price of oil high.

[Ima saver]

I know that I try to drive less.

[cicy33]

I'm not sure why groups of people like to pick random days and tell everyone not to fill up with gas. This accomplishes nothing and has absolutely no effect on the oil companies. If 10,000 people need gas but refuse to fill up on that particular day, what is going to happen is they are either going to fill up the day before, or the day after. Not to mention in the meantime 10,000 more people will need gas and will fill up the day after the "strike."

The only people being affected by this is the consumers wanting to fill up their tanks. It makes no sense.

Absolutely, I bought gas today. but I haven't bought gas since saturday. so I went 3 days without purchasing any. but today was buy gas or stay home from work. Sorry, but my bank account is more important at this point than theirs.

[cbmeeks]

This is about as effective as chain letters.

Nice theory though. A better "rebellion" would be to have 10,000,000 people not drive their car for an entire weekend for an entire month.

That would mean they would buy less for the entire month, there would be no "make up" gas purchases because you didn't drive....so you didn't NEED to purchase, and you would save money because you probably wouldn't spend much if you stayed at home. Go easy on the pizza deliveries...lol

cbmeeks

[tinapbeana]

i buy gas on average every 3 weeks at 25-30 per fill-up. i'm due tomorrow.

[cbmeeks]

wow, you must not do a lot of driving.

[tinapbeana]

very lucky that i live within 4 miles of my office and all the places i shop... woohoo!!!

[cbmeeks]

yeah, that would help. My wife and I spend between $60 - $90 per week depending on the price of gas

[carsensejoe]

damn ...its a shame most of America is so thick headed... just not willing to participate and all you have to do is nothing...probly if u told them to buy gas that day they would have purposely stayed home... even when being squeezed this hard for there money they would rather just go along like everythings ok then do something

[greedy4chips]

damn ...its a shame most of America is so thick headed... just not willing to participate and all you have to do is nothing...probly if u told them to buy gas that day they would have purposely stayed home... even when being squeezed this hard for there money they would rather just go along like everythings ok then do something

That's where you are totally wrong! Participation by 100% of the population would do nothing to change gas prices.

Read my prior post to see how to reduce gas consumption by millions of gallons a day and then you have your viable solution.