Gas boycott?
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From: Rochester Hills, MI
Originally Posted by bmxer8699
lol, stupid, i fill up every tuesday... but i still have a ton of gas, so i guess i wont fill up today
I love how you have a schedule on when you fill up.. heh heh
Originally Posted by GADIB
It sucks for me because my dad is a head hancho in a big oil company.. which will hurt my families income.. bottom line is.. if people do this ****.. it eventually trickles down to the families who are employeed by them as well. Hurting their income and possibly getting laid off..
What to do ... What to do..
What to do ... What to do..
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From: Rochester Hills, MI
Originally Posted by LT1wannabe
Which oil company? I'm about to have my petroleum engineering degree. haha. But honeslty, stock prices might go down a little if everybody did that on that one day, but that would only make the next day the biggest profit day in energy business history.
LoL.. That is true.. its a bad situation for most.. and what sucks.. I hate this.. is I have a lot of friends that work on the platforms.. and they are out there for weeks.. and come home for one and then they go right back out.. well hurricane season is coming up..
Just promise me you wont go out there lol.. and were good..
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Originally Posted by 1320FEVER
I just wish they would give some of it to me in the form of a raise 
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From: Boise, ID
Not using gas for a day or two would hurt them a tinnnnnyyyy bit... not simply not filling up for a day. I mean.. you're still using their product... it's when you stop using their product will it hurt them. But like everyone else, you have to get to work
Originally Posted by Nine Ball
buy stock in the oil/gas energy businesses. When oil prices go up, you make money.
Originally Posted by v8
welp gas prices over here went up 20 cents since this morning.
Yup, guess that shows the idiots who runs it around here huh? Word probably got out to the oil companies and they decided counter-strike was in order.
here in DFW, gas went up 10 cents on the 16th and another 10 cents on the 17th.
boy am i glad we have internet chain letters... just imagine how worse off our world would be without them.
boy am i glad we have internet chain letters... just imagine how worse off our world would be without them.
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From: Anheuser Busch, Houston Texas
I was over at Marathon last week. They have a really nice view on 40.
The only gas boycott that could possibly work is boycotting Citgo.
I like how this is compeletly our own fault and we try and blame it on someone else - anyone else - even when it doesn't make a bit of difference.
Because the lack of refining is pushing gas prices, all we have to do is use less gas in total for an extended period of time (more than a day or week) to bring prices down. Usually though prices are up on crude oil prices, and there is nothing to do about that but find more, since if we magically stopped buying crude, some other country would buy it up and the market price would be unaffected.
Sucks to be a price taker doesn't it?
The only gas boycott that could possibly work is boycotting Citgo.
I like how this is compeletly our own fault and we try and blame it on someone else - anyone else - even when it doesn't make a bit of difference.
Because the lack of refining is pushing gas prices, all we have to do is use less gas in total for an extended period of time (more than a day or week) to bring prices down. Usually though prices are up on crude oil prices, and there is nothing to do about that but find more, since if we magically stopped buying crude, some other country would buy it up and the market price would be unaffected.
Sucks to be a price taker doesn't it?
Get a beater that gets 30+mpg and/or start carpooling. Take a drive around a major city and look at how many people are driving by themselves in SUVs and pickup trucks. Also increasing demand/consumption is the proliferated use of 3/4 and 1 ton trucks/diesels, Hummers, etc for commuting 
. Apparantly, its cool to drive a huge car with a thirsty engine and huge fuel capacity.
Just say no to gas!
. Apparantly, its cool to drive a huge car with a thirsty engine and huge fuel capacity. Just say no to gas!
Well. Since I also work in this field so to speak, Honestly there are not enough refineries to keep up with supply and demand, our biggest problem on the subject. And second of all, there is no shortage of oil or natural gas, or water in the world. Natural gas and oil and gasoline for that matter is a traded stock. Investors have to do with the price of gas at the pump going up or down, nothing else!!!!!!!!! I know this will lose people so I will explain. If you bought one barrel of oil at $50, and 2 weeks later you still have that one barrel and the price of oil per barrel is now $40, you still have to sell it at a high price to make a profit to buy more. EVERYTHING except drugs, are traded in the stock exchange. Sorry but I just had to set everything out there.