Happy now...?

[Buttercup McToots]

:sarcasm:

[Redstone]

1. Oh, sure. Like the extra pumping on the 16th won't make up for it. You really think the oil company

people are so DUMB that they won't come to just that conclusion?

You want to "send the oil companies a message?" There's only ONE way to do that: drive less.

If you're not willing to do that, but are only willing to do something as pointless and idiotic as "don't pump gas on May 15," you are part of the problem.

Redstone

[NYCGirl]

2. Snopes' take on this:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp

[Roland99]

3. And?

Unless you don't drive or don't do anything that consumes fossil fuel, you're only delaying an inevitable purchase by 24 hrs.



*yawn*

[sniffa]

4. ah jeez, not this again

[BurtWorm]

5. Smells fishy.

And according to this it is:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/government/a/gas_boycott.htm

1. There was no nationwide "gas out" in 1997. There was one in 1999, but it didn't cause gas prices to drop 30 cents per gallon overnight. In fact, it didn't cause them to drop at all. Despite the popularity of the email campaign, the event itself attracted scant participation and was completely ineffectual.

2. There are over 205 million Internet users in the United States, far more than the 73 million claimed.

3. If, say, a hundred million drivers refused en masse to fill up their tanks on May 15, the total of what they didn't spend could amount to as much as $3 billion. However, it doesn't follow that such a boycott would actually decrease oil companies' revenues by that amount, given that the average sales of gasoline across the entire U.S. is under $1 billion per day in the first place.

4. Whether the total was a half-billion, 3 billion, or 10 billion dollars, the sales missed due to a one-day consumer boycott wouldn't hurt the oil companies one bit. Think about it. Every single American who doesn't buy gas on Tuesday is still going to have to fill up their tank on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. Sales for the week would end up being perfectly normal, or very close to it. A meaningful boycott would entail participants actually consuming less fuel -- and doing so in a sustained, disciplined fashion over a period of time -- not just choosing to wait a day or two before filling up as usual.

[OlderButWiser]

6. For how many seconds

did you believe this?

[NoGOPZone]

7. Oh boy

You mean people are still passing around the crazy idea that delaying demand for one day is somehow going to force a price decrease?

[gravity]

8. There would just be more people buying gas the 14th and 16th

It's not going to hurt the oil companies one bit.

[gravity]

9. dupe

[Gabi Hayes]

10. GREAT IDEA! why not stop buying gas for TEN DAYS in a row?

gas will be FREE!

why hasn't somebody thought of that already?

[Systematic Chaos]

11. And if you go 20 days they'll be mailing you a CHECK!

:woohoo:

[Richardo]

12. .

:rofl:

Why didn't I think of that?

[kimmerspixelated]

13. That's not a bad idea.

However trying to coordinate something like that would be very hard. A former poster had it right. Just drive less!!! Plan your town trips and be aggressive about it, and changes will occur if everyone does it, too.

[gravity]

16. That's the whole point of high gas prices to begin with

Supply is short, so gas companies raise the price to decrease the demand to match the supply

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

14. Did You Ask Your Friend Nicely To Stop Forwarding You Stupid Emails?

Just curious.

[graywarrior]

15. I haven't gotten gas for 10 days and I will not need any for another 6 or 7.

This after filling my tank at $35 a whack twice a week. I love it.

[HEyHEY]

17. That'll show em!

[Buttercup McToots]

18. ALL RIGHT ALREADY!!

Jesus Christ, I get a email from an older lady
that is excited about doing SOMETHING and I post
it...!
So nail me to the cross...

Now go find somebody else to pick on...
Christ Almighty...

[Richardo]

20. Hey, 2 more posts to 1000!

Congrats! :toast:

[BurtWorm]

22. I don't think anyone was picking on you.

I hope you didn't really take it that way. It's the content people were reacting to. It has the ring of "forwarded e-mail activism" about it, i.e., the sort of activism that ends when "send" is clicked. Nothing personal against you.

:toast:

Premature congrats on hitting 1,000.

[dweller]

24. Buuttttterrrr ... thanks

for the heads up to set my email filters to block the upcoming barrage of gas boycott email/spam.

see, you helped out with the heads up.
dp

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. How about instead of not buying gas on one day...

everybody gets together and stops driving on one day. Or at least carpool.

I mean it's not like anybody buys gas every single day.

[asthmaticeog]

21. Convince the entire shipping industry to participate and you might have something there.

However, you won't so you don't.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. Don't forget airlines. BTW, I got in after the "happy now" but it doesn't take a genius to know

what the OP was.

[LSK]

23. didnt work last year or the year before....

[Redstone]

25. Just a bit of friendly advice: If you're going to post something really dumb, and people

point out that it's really dumb, for you to get into a hissy snit and say "happy now?" as if it's OUR fault for pointing out that you posted something really dumb is kind of, well, childish.

Just my opinion.

Redstone