SpoiledMan
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Have to reduce what you use overall to make a difference. I fill my beater up 1-2 times per month. I fill my Teg up maybe 2-3 times per year.
NO GAS...On May 15th 2007
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Scottwax said:
A business truism. "A dollar lost today can never be made up."
topnotchtouch
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blkZ28Conv said:A business truism. "A dollar lost today can never be made up."
The problem is the big oil companies will not be losing that dollar. It will be the small oil companies who buy the gasoline and distribute it locally that would suffer from something like that. The large oil companies work together buying and selling from each other to meet regional demand. In regions where demand is high they might have to buy from other companies to meet that demand while in regions where demand might be down they will sell their surplus to regions where demand is higher. Unless you can have a sustained affect on overall consumption as has already been said one day will have absolutely no affect as the next day there will be a surge to make up for the one slow day, in effect that lost dollar is not really lost but just postponed a day...
Internet fueling 'gas out' protest against rising prices
May 4, 2007
BY ALEJANDRO BODIPO-MEMBA
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
The nation’s drivers are trying to fight back against fast rising gasoline prices by staging an Internet-driven “gas out� on May 15.
The $3.10 price tag is the highest level for Michigan drivers since they hit $3.12 on Aug. 7 of last year. In addition, today's price is only a dime off the all-time record set on Sept. 3, 2005, following Hurricane Katrina.
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Michigan currently has the ninth-highest prices in America, behind states like California, Hawaii, New York and Illinois.
Last year at this time prices were averaging $2.85 a gallon in Michigan.
Meanwhile, motorists in Michigan are paying an average of around $3.10 a gallon, which is just 10 cents off the all-time record set on Sept. 3, 2005, shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.
An Internet chain-letter dated April 30 has been circulating around email systems across the country in recent days urging drivers to avoid pumping gas into their vehicles on May 15. The unsigned letter suggests that a one-day “gas out� could result in the siphoning off of nearly $3 billion from the coffers of oil company profits.
"Some people think $4 a gallon on the horizon," said Jim Rink, a spokesman for AAA Michigan. "If consumers balk at the rise they will curb their consumption and prices will come down."
Industry observers, who say these kinds of chain-letters tend to get passed around as prices rise, generally don’t make have much of an impact on the bottom line of major oil companies.
“This stuff does not work,� said Mark Routt, a senior petroleum analyst with Energy Security Analysis Inc. in Wakefield, Ma., who received a copy of the letter earlier this week. “The only thing that does work, in terms of lower prices, is a change of lifestyle and habit.�
The United States is the world leader in consumption of crude oil – the feedstock for gasoline – at 20.8 million barrels a day. That compares to about 19.7 million barrels a day in 2000.
But a growing number of consumers are convinced that something sinister is afoot with large oil companies.
“I’m going to participate in the gas out because I feel you’ve got to get a message to (the oil companies),� said Myron Goff, a retiree in Livonia, who saw the letter about a week ago. “If people stop buying on one day something has got to happen. It’s going to take profits away from them and that’s all they are worried about; profits.�
May 4, 2007
BY ALEJANDRO BODIPO-MEMBA
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
The nation’s drivers are trying to fight back against fast rising gasoline prices by staging an Internet-driven “gas out� on May 15.
The $3.10 price tag is the highest level for Michigan drivers since they hit $3.12 on Aug. 7 of last year. In addition, today's price is only a dime off the all-time record set on Sept. 3, 2005, following Hurricane Katrina.
Advertisement
Michigan currently has the ninth-highest prices in America, behind states like California, Hawaii, New York and Illinois.
Last year at this time prices were averaging $2.85 a gallon in Michigan.
Meanwhile, motorists in Michigan are paying an average of around $3.10 a gallon, which is just 10 cents off the all-time record set on Sept. 3, 2005, shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.
An Internet chain-letter dated April 30 has been circulating around email systems across the country in recent days urging drivers to avoid pumping gas into their vehicles on May 15. The unsigned letter suggests that a one-day “gas out� could result in the siphoning off of nearly $3 billion from the coffers of oil company profits.
"Some people think $4 a gallon on the horizon," said Jim Rink, a spokesman for AAA Michigan. "If consumers balk at the rise they will curb their consumption and prices will come down."
Industry observers, who say these kinds of chain-letters tend to get passed around as prices rise, generally don’t make have much of an impact on the bottom line of major oil companies.
“This stuff does not work,� said Mark Routt, a senior petroleum analyst with Energy Security Analysis Inc. in Wakefield, Ma., who received a copy of the letter earlier this week. “The only thing that does work, in terms of lower prices, is a change of lifestyle and habit.�
The United States is the world leader in consumption of crude oil – the feedstock for gasoline – at 20.8 million barrels a day. That compares to about 19.7 million barrels a day in 2000.
But a growing number of consumers are convinced that something sinister is afoot with large oil companies.
“I’m going to participate in the gas out because I feel you’ve got to get a message to (the oil companies),� said Myron Goff, a retiree in Livonia, who saw the letter about a week ago. “If people stop buying on one day something has got to happen. It’s going to take profits away from them and that’s all they are worried about; profits.�
Changeling
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You are being conned all to HELL! Stopping for a day wouldn't do anything but make them laugh or put an extra strain on your business/life!!
Try contacting your Governor, Mayer, President (yes you have a right) in the form of a old fashioned letter!! If you pile up the Post Office and Capitol Hill with honest criticism of the way things are being handled, you will be recognized. If you sit on your donkey and just talk, prices will continue to go up!
If you think the gas prices are a joke wait till you start seeing the price on "GROCERIES" this year !!! The intention is to see how much the traffic will bear!
Why should you pay $4.00 per lb for tomatoes, that is currently the cost of round/chuck/ hamburger (normally)!
Ask yourself, what costs more to raise, a tomato or a piece of top round steak??????
US citizens are being screwed, but the average doesn't seem to care! At least till, it's to late!
Changeling
Try contacting your Governor, Mayer, President (yes you have a right) in the form of a old fashioned letter!! If you pile up the Post Office and Capitol Hill with honest criticism of the way things are being handled, you will be recognized. If you sit on your donkey and just talk, prices will continue to go up!
If you think the gas prices are a joke wait till you start seeing the price on "GROCERIES" this year !!! The intention is to see how much the traffic will bear!
Why should you pay $4.00 per lb for tomatoes, that is currently the cost of round/chuck/ hamburger (normally)!
Ask yourself, what costs more to raise, a tomato or a piece of top round steak??????
US citizens are being screwed, but the average doesn't seem to care! At least till, it's to late!
Changeling
blkZ28Conv said:A business truism. "A dollar lost today can never be made up."
They won't lose that dollar unless you actually drive less. Besides, oil prices have been falling for the last 10 days or so anyway. Plus the refineries that were down for repairs are coming back on line. The price should start falling slowly now, entirely due to market forces.