Word, I am not usually a big fan of these schemes.. but I am not gonna pump gas on the 15th.

 

If you want to take a little more money from them, fill up with half a tank. That way they don't get to earn interest on your money for a while...
No difference if one person does it, but if everyone did that, they'd get their money a little later... This is especially true of the folks who only fill up once a month and have a full tank forever...

 

How about rather than not fill up...Not drive. That is a better thing to do. Not filling up is pointless if the person still drives. I fill up once every two weeks because I either take the bus or carpool. If anyone wants to make a statement to the oil companies don't drive.

Its all for naught anyway because if the gas prices come down some one will just buy a hummer and they will go back up.

 

:stupid:

 

the best would be if everyone carpooled for two weeks. take 2/3 of the cars off the road for that long and that will realy get the oil big wigs and polititions who are in there pockets thinking. im in san diego paying $3.45 a gallon and im sick of this sh#$.

 

...but then the revenue will be up 2billion the following day from everyone and their brother filling up.

Get off myspace, it makes you dumb.

--billyM

 

Bingo... how many years have these damn gas strikes been proposed? I remember getting these 10 years ago. If you don't fill up on the 15th, you'll be filling up on the 16th. Your still buying the gas, they are still getting the $$. If you want to save money on gas, drive less, buy a Civic and carpool.

 

...but then the revenue will be up 2billion the following day from everyone and their brother filling up.

Get off myspace, it makes you dumb.

--billyM

Agreed.

Thanks for the laugh JDM MKII...

 

I'll buy three tanks, just to spite people.

 

lol...car pooling would be the more logical way to do this...either pay gas or dont. move to south america and join the closest tribe. learn the ways, and walk.

 

...but then the revenue will be up 2billion the following day from everyone and their brother filling up.

As a former gas station attendant(Oregon, much like New Jersy, its illegal to pump your own gas) I have to agree with billym on this point...the oil companys make just as much money on the day before and the day after the "boycott" so in the long run it does no good...a better idea may be to "boycott" shell for a month, then boycott chevron, then boycott arco...and on and on....the problem with this one is how do you organize an entire nation the size of the U.S.? Not to mention the folks who only have shell gas card or only a chevron gas card and can't use cash for an entire month to buy gas...basicly we have this...:bananas: ...the gas company's being the banana standing up and the public being the other one....

 

The suggestion of taking the bus is a good one, up to a point. Public transit is only efficient to the extent that a whole lot of people want to go to the same places. Most cities in the US aren't built that way, but rather everything is spread out. Actually, our system of roadways and private automobiles are pretty efficient. What isn't efficient is our love of the automobile, particularly the irony of everybody rolling around by themselves in a 4 to 7 seat behemoth. The average person weighs 150 to 200 pounds, yet we have to move 3,500 to 4,000 lbs of metal around with us everywhere. That takes a lot of unnecessary energy. Allowing for ample personal space, the average person is comfortable standing in about 12 square feet, yet when you arrive, your car takes up 325 square feet of parking lot. That takes up a lot of real estate, both in the driveway and on the road. What we ought to be doing is buying smaller cars, "smart cars", those golf-cart sized things with license plates, or riding motorcycles. I have a friend rides some mean looking kawasaki to work about 20 miles every day so long as its not raining. He says he puts 3 gallons in the tank just about once a month. But gasoline, even at $3 a gallon is still such a small portion of a person's average daily expenses that American society is not yet ready to get radical. No, for probably the next 30 years, we'll be happy with full-sized hybrid vehicles that get mabe 30 miles to the gallon instead of 25. Then we'll switch to some other alternative fuel until we deplete that. In about 400 years, we'll be back to riding donkeys, compact personal transportation that run on 100% natural and renewable fuel. And the fuel company executives will all be dead then so who cares if they make billions of dollars this May 15th.

 

If everyone stop buying gas(and I mean it, no more suv's or using bikes and Public Transport) the price of gas would increase from a lack of demand. Then the automobile will become a niche market. Making our beloved hobby far to expensive.

Silly humans, thinking they can make change in the political world. I hate these threads. We have it good now. Just be smart and drive efficient, smaller cars, and expect to pay more in the near future for fuel.

 

The demand for gas is what is driving the gas. If demand goes down then the price will go down. Yes it is true that in certain situations when demand goes down then price goes up. But we are in a demand driven situation so when demand goes down then price goes down.

But the gas companies will use lowered demand as a reason to jack up price and when people start demanding more they will jack the price up again because the demand goes up.

 

I use to stick it to the mega gas company's by riding a bike year round. Instead of paying 5$ for gas to work, it was 5$ for a donair, for fuel.....hmmm donair sauce.

The best way to beat the cost of gas is effiecent public/private transportation. Only problem, is much of Canada is so far apart public transportation is not practical, unlike Europe, which is much closer in population density, and is easier to link with other towns and cities for train service. The level of practicallity of driving mopeds/scooters in Europe must be envied to a point, not many hp's , but plenty of mpg's.

Toyota recently caused a bit of contraversey with the last tabulated Canadian federal budget. Toyota stood to recieve a substantial amount of money in rebates from the goverement, as a resuly of thier fuel effiecent vehicles. Dodge in paticular vented the loudest, no doubt a result of having the most to lose with their truck line, their biggest contributor to the bottom line.

The venting and ranting won out eventually, but the rebates will be back after giving the big three a chance to adapt.

Just thinking out loud, Toyota sold more cars world wide than GM in the first quarter and is headed to a higher year totals for the first time in history, makes you wonder why.... fuel effiecent cars for the masses? The big three big, gas hogging monsters and unemployed auto workers.

The high price of oil is causing a boom in my province. Good news yes, everybody who wants a job can get three. Bad news yes, house prices have almost gone up by 150% in five years, and a one room apartment condo is going for about a 180,000.


edit...

I know it's not about turbo compressor maps or suspension upgrades, but interesting reading non the less. Toyota's free annual report http://tsx.ar.wilink.com/asp/A565_s...sp?sort1=Automotive&session_ID=63257EA2B0824306&Select_Reports=1&page=repselect

 

Psst-Oil companies Dont have huge inventories-do the math-They are just in time from pipe to car-price is independent of traditional checks because demand is built in-I was buying gas in 1997, the 30 cent price drop in one day is BS, yadda, yadda, yadda. Sheesh.

 

the government could easily slap sense into people. instead of one car pool lane, take a regular lane away and make it so freeways now have TWO carpool lanes. (at least here in california it should be that way). doing this would solve two problems. (tho in the beginning it will seem like it makes things worse).

it will create MORE traffic at first, and people will either deal with it, carpool so they dont hafta wait in traffic all the time, buy a hybrid that allows them to go in the car pool lane alone, or buy a motorcycle. since its more cost effective to carpool, ppl will more so do that. that will make us use less gas, and less traffic, next in cost effectiveness is a motorcycle, 50+mpg, zip through traffic and create less traffic. lastly, buy a hybrid, this one wont help traffic, but it sure will help lower the demand of fuel.

People do nothing but complain about these types of things, yet do nothing about it. i ride my bike all the time. fill er up twice a month. 12 bux of gas.

we cant expect people to change, the higher ups need to FORCE it outa them.

 

I'm in.

My GF is a manager at an ARCO, and I can tell you this won't matter there. It is a "good" neighborhood and the high majority of the people at the pump are older upper middle class, not exactly myspace users.

I'll report back though, the total sales of gas for that day (A Tuesday) VS a typical Tuesday, just so you can see if it made a difference in the real world.

 

Mike "carfreek" speaks the truth.The nature of our "new" job,has us researching this along with many other aspects of the petroleum industry.
Kesekisupra finished it kinda.

Boils down to if you don't buy it,they'll use the crude to refine whatever is being bought during whatever time frame you choose.For prices to drop,without goverment intervention -yeah right- demand over a prolonged period of time will have to drop drasticaly.

 

I say everyone should quit bitchin about gas prices....they are relative....
in Germany it is 6.00$ a gallon....And in Japan I'm sure it is not cheap either...so
not buying gas for one day is not going to help....

 

maybe we should start thinkin' about a bio-diesel swap.:hsugh: just a thought...

 

lol....biodeisel,,,,5mDe,....

 

Much of that $6.00 a gallon is for taxes where in the states most of the price goes to the gas companies.

 

btw, if you guys wanna buy a bike and still support toyota, buy yamaha, toyota has their hands in that cookie jar, and surprisingly, in subaru's as well..


edit: btw, subaru and toyota being in cahootz actually makes me wonder, i think we might finally see the birth of a new sports car bearing the toyota badge.
it seems subaru wants in on toyotas hybrid technology, and toyota...well...

 

learnin something new everday

 

Shell filed a patent for extracting shale oil not too long ago.

There's hope for gas prices to come down soon:

...there is more oil in the Colorado shale fields than the entire Middle East had at its peak...

From:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2007/04/post_4.asp

 

oil companys raise the prices of gas because they know people will pay it.
just two weeks of everyone car pooling will bring the gas prices down. not one day. 90 % of people work with someone else who drives, so finding someone to carpool with shouldnt be that hard.

 

Wow! I just love how half of the ppl in this forum likes to put ppl down. wtf?!
If they did it in '97 and it did work why can't we just try it wouldn't kill anybody. Oh and BillyM Myspace dosen't make me dumb It's ppl like you that turns evrything negative and don't try to be supportive.

 

It didnt work in 97-telling you that isnt putting you down. How is the truth about gas prices negative? How is perpetuating falsehood being supportive? How did Myspace turn out to be the Delphic oracle? Its OK to be wrong, its how people learn.