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Don't Buy Gas Day
I read that an actor (I think it was Robin Williams) once said, that if everyone in the United States didn't buy gas for one day, than we could cripple the gas companies.
So what do you think? Do you think we could ever get it to happen? Do you think it would actually effect anything? Do you think it could go worldwide? I was thinking about it yesterday, and I don't see how we could get it to work worldwide without the gas companies finding out and like, lowering the prices a lot for that day just to get us to buy it. I think it might work locally, but I don't see it happening by the nation or worldwide, or how it would even be possible to get so many people involved. |
I really don't know...I have heard a lot of people say that but do you think anyone actually WILL do that?
Compared to last year at this time my Economics teacher said something like we have driving xxx billion miles less. I use the 'x' becaues I don't remember the actual number. I think if we DID do something like this it would do something....if it's good or bad, I don't know. |
i think if the whole nation could do it or at least like 90% it probably could cripple the gas stations and hopefully force them to lower their prices, especially if we managed to do it like once a month.
but the hard part is getting it done and it seems like no one want to try. i don't think it would work worldwide. |
The main concern would be getting people to do it, which is just like getting people to do anything, it's incredibly hard.
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I think it would have some effect, although wheather that would be positive in the long run or not, i don't know.
But the fatal flaw in the plan, that's already been hinted at, is getting everyone to do it. There would always be one person, somewhere who filled up. I certainly don't think it could be done globally. |
Thanks for replying Sun. Yea, the only way I see this ever happening is if it managed get spread around around MySpace, and Youtube and Facebook. But then it would still have to be convincing enough for everyone and we'd have to make sure everyone bought gas ahead of time so they wouldn't need to.
If I were crazy outgoing I would probably try to start something at my school locally...but I'm not. I just talk about these kinds of things. |
it probably could work, just not a people joining it and that only the people who really care about the environment wouldn't buy gas. ;-;
Or find a different way to get to school. :3 |
I remember my mother telling me about a chain e-mail she received from a friend on this.
It said, that there was one day in Britain, where nobody bought fuel, and the day after that, the prices went down. So, to quote the e-mail, "it really works!!!!!" My mum then asked a friend of hers who lives there, & she said that she'd never heard of it. Thing is, everyone still needs to re-fuel whether they like it or not. Touching on the above issue, people would still buy it regardless. Another thing, if it does go ahead, & people postpone buying fuel for a day, then they'll only need it the next. Fuel stations will still have the previous days fuel, & there will only be more demand for it. So the day after that, due to the influx in buys, the price will rise according to demand, & you'd be back where you started. |
With how many people who need gas to get to school/work/etc I doubt it would ever work. I mean, if you're going to run out of gas, you need to buy it. Even if people didn't buy gas for a day, they would need to stock up on it before or after the day so prices wouldn't change that much.
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I don't think it's possible to do it worldwide. I mean think about it even the gas companies, the people that run them need gas themselves. So someone is bound to find out...If it were to happen, i'm sure that it would affect them a lot though.
A whole day without sales, yes that would be bad. |
Well, it doesn't seem like something that would really work all that well to me. People would simply buy gas the day beforehand and the gas companies would still have their money. And because of the size of the United States and the fact that most people don't live very very near where they work, it's not even reasonable to say: "Forgo gas and drive a bike today!" Using public transportation for a day wouldn't even be reasonable because a lot of places don't have public transportation or the transportation has been severely cut over the past few years.
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I think it would work, but I seriously doubt that everyone wouldn't buy gas.
There would be the people who didn't care, and then the people who would just want to ruin it because they think they are cool/funny. :c |
I'm pretty sure he said that a while ago because when I was in high school and had been driving my car for maybe four months or so before gas started to rise my fellow students didn't gas up for at least three days straight. We also encouraged other school drivers to do the same and did some pretty interesting damage in profits.
But I don't think now is the time to do that, yesterday was the first time I saw gas under two dollars in three-four years so I'm not complaining one bit. I remember getting mad when gas was $1.56, if it ever got that low again I'd streak. XD |
I guess there are a lot of angles to this issue. The only way to know what would happen would be to try it I guess. While I was thinking about this, I was also thinking about that quote, "People should not fear their governments, governments should fear their people." It should be the same way with the businesses. The Gas companies should fear us, not the other way around. I know I'm afraid of the inevitable jump in gas prices once the election is over.
MasterChiefrei, where do you live that gas is under two dollars. On the way home this morning, gas was 2.41 where I live in South Carolina. |
I live in MO. Usually gas doesn't go far up but it reached $4 and no one really drove for a while after that.
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$4! I'm not surprised. I know that people down here were being very conservative in their driving. My dad even started carpooling to work. I know I avoided going anywhere I didn't have to. But I'm pretty cheap anyway.
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It would never work...people need gas too much. People are always traveling and so on. It'd be nice if they would lower gas prices(or they can stay the same where I am at 1.97 for gas! When was the last time you saw that?!)
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people have lives
they have to get somewhere, and to do that they drive a great distance. some people dont have the convenience to not buy something for a boycott. the thing that is happening, is that people are driving less. but they are not, not buying guess out of spite. |
kinda impossible to get everybody to stop buying gas, tis kinda important to have running cars but then again, people can stop being lazy and walk places or take a bike.
i've never learned to drive cause of all the trouble it brings high gas prices, expensive insurance, and other fees no to mention the car itself, i'd never buy one but me dad has plenty all rust buckets >.> that's the main reason i never learned, all the cars be way older than me, like the cadiallac was made before seatbelts were invented (it has some now) but bleh i'd rather learn in something new. i always forget about the price of gas me i'd rather walk and save my money for something important like manga XD |
As the system is right now I feel it would be a bad idea. People in hospitals and nursing homes would be mostly unattended.
Various other services we take for granted would not be working because very few of us live with in biking or walking distances. Plus I don't think a day with nobody buying gas would make any difference to gas companies. |
its a cute idea
but when you live in a modern society gas is going to be used |
I personally could go without buying gas.
I'd get by fairly well since I can bike to the grocery store...Course if they couldn't bike there to open the grocery store for me it wouldn't matter. First thing that would happen if I couldn't drive is my old catfish living in boarded aquariums at my parents house waiting for me to get my own home to take them, would die. I depend on transportation to take care of them long distance. |
Personally, I think the whole idea of boycotting gas for a day to lower prices, whether or not it would work, rather misses the point.
The problem, as I see it, is not that gas prices are so high, but that we have too many cars and we are too dependent on them. The fact of the matter is that the demand for fossil fuels is on the rise, and sooner rather than later, we're going to run out of them. If we don't find a way to wean ourselves off of them, and soon, we're going to find ourselves in a world of trouble. (No pun intended.) I don't drive, so I wouldn't be able to participate in a gas boycott in any more than I already do, but even if I did drive, I don't know if I would. As people have already said, most of us need to drive, so if we don't refuel one day, we'll refuel the next, and nothing really changes. It would be sort of pointless. I would be much more inclined to support a movement relating to carpooling, public transit, alternative transit, fuel efficiency, or something along similar lines. Gas prices seem to me like a symptom, and I'd rather fight the cause. |
Well, yeah it would cripple Haliburton & associates, because they need several billion every yr to keep the oil pumping going... And all the extra cash is just their profit, so they make trillions of profit every yr. People would have to figure out other ways of getting around for a whole yr if they wanted to really screw over the company. I would love to see that. XD
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