NO GAS…On May 15th 2007
Body: Don’t pump gas on may 15th
Body: …in April 1997, there was a “gas out” conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.
On May 15th 2007, all internet users are to not go to a gas station in protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places.
There are 73,000,000+ American members currently on the internet network, and the average car takes about 30 to 50 dollars to fill up.
If all users did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take
$2,292,000,000.00 (that’s almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companys pockets for just one day, so please do not go to the gas station on May 15th and lets try to put a dent in the Middle Eastern oil industry for at least one day.
If you agree (which I cant see why you wouldnt) resend this to all your contact list. With it saying, ''Don’t pump gas on May 15th"
Heck, dude. I can’t buy gas until AFTER May 10th the way it is now! I can’t afford it until my wife gets paid again. Gas prices kept me from fishing yesterday and are forcing me to hitch a ride with my wife on her way to work today…cutting my fishing short. Gas prices have kept me off the stream about 70% of the days I would have fished so far this Spring. And I live in fishing Mecca…with about 200 places to fly fish within a 2 hour drive of my house and about a dozen good ones within an hour. So I’m afraid me not buying gas on one particular day won’t really help. I can’t buy gas MOST days already!
A flaw in that logic is that everyone who did not buy on the 15th would buy on the 14th or 16th and the oil companies would still be in the money. May be the solution is not going after the oil companies for selling what many obviously want or need, but educate the people about using alternatives or changing driving habits.
Funny thing is the vast majority of our petroleum consumption isn’t for gasoline in automobiles. Focusing conservation efforts there is small potatoes. If we really want to conserve oil, we need to cut deep into the use of petro for heating and making electricity and on our love affair with petro-chemicals like PLASTIC.
The figures are incorrect and don’t even agree with themselves.
U.S. Crude Oil Production 5,178,000 barrels/day
U.S. Crude Oil Imports 10,126,000 barrels/day = 15,304,000 barrels/day
U.S. Petroleum Consumption 20,802,000 barrels/day
Total: -5,498,000 barrels/day
So we are using 5,498,000 barrels/day more than we can come up with??? Impossible!
These are the same people that kept score on us in Vietnam. Accoding to government figures, we killed or wounded 125% of the total enemy forces available. Gee…I must’ve shot and killed a few of them twice!!!
Gas isn’t $2.34 cents per gallon anywhere in the country right now, and we only import about 20% of our crude oil. This is according to Wall Street and independent agencies, whom I trust much more than the government.
Look, I am sorry you are upset about the price of gas but this is a fishing site. You will please note the date on the data. If you would like to send me a pm instead of boring all these other nice people - feel free. I am always open to honest discussion. But, like I said, this is a fishing site and fishing is more important than the cost of gas.
That is PETROLEUM consumed by transportation. You got any idea how much of that is aviation fuel and diesel?
I said GASOLINE in PERSONAL vehicles.
You might want to read what someone actually says before correcting what you THINK they said.
My point is that private individual automobile consumption of petroleum is not the Holy Grail of energy conservation. INDUSTRIAL/COMMERCIAL consumption is. Yet, almost all of the rhetoric and legislation is aimed…as usual…at private citizens’ lifestyle and economic choices. It’s BS. And it’s high time for a change in attitude!
This is the “Sound Off” board, for issues related to fishing. I don’t know about you, but the price of fuel has kept me from going fishing for a few weeks now. And I know I am not the only one with this problem. Therefore, it should be an appropriate subject for this forum.
This is the “Sound Off” board, for issues related to fishing. I don’t know about you, but the price of fuel has kept me from going fishing for a few weeks now. And I know I am not the only one with this problem. Therefore, it should be an appropriate subject for this forum.
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AGREED!
Folks are eventually going to wake up and realize just how much it does impact. Pundits are blaming the sub-prime lending implosion on risinng interest rates, which is partly true. But rates…even marginal rates…are still near their all-time low. HOWEVER, the cost of food has gone up over 10% the past 2 years (over 3 times the avg rate of inflation) due mostly to rising fuel prices and conversion of food production resources to fuel production resources (reducing the food supply) and petro-fuel prices have gone up astoundingly faster than the overall inflation rate. The avg American homeowner pays as much for food and fuel (combined) each month as they do for their mortgage. And they are paying 20-25% more for food and 50-100% more for fuel than they did a few years ago when they signed that mortgage. Of course, the gov’t exempts the cost of most food and all fuel from their inflation statisitics that they report to the public. But when you take the average homeowner’s budget and send him/her from spending $400/mo to $600/mo on groceries and from spending to $200/mo to spending $400/mo on gas, that extra $400/mo has to come from somewhere! Guess where? You can still go to work and such if you lose your house, but not your car. And no matter where you live, you still have to eat! So they skip mortgage payments to buy gas and groceries.
And if anyone doesn’t think this effects fly-fishing, they’re just dull. When folks are in this situation, how much fishing gear do you think they’re going to buy? How many guides will they hire? How many fishing trips get cancelled due to budget constraints? How many 2nd jobs are folks taking that eat up all their spare time they used to spend fishing? How many Frank Amato books won’t they buy? How many Kelly Galloup videos will they pass up in favor of eggs and butter? How many of those guides, outfitters, and shop owners will be forced to raise their rates to cover the increased costs THEY are experiencing? How many folks won’t travel to conclaves and fish-ins? How many cable subscribers will eventually have to drop their CATV in favor of gas and groceries, thus reducing viewership for VS. and The Outdoor Channel and iLife and ESPN2? How many fly-fishing shows will be the FIRST to fall off of those networks as a result? How many magazine subscriptions won’t be renewed? How many donations to conservation orgs will be withheld?
It fuel prices aren’t “fishing-related,” then NOTHING is. Fuel prices are pretty directly linked to EVERYTHING WE DO.
I’m shy of replying to this post after reading so many eloquent replies. I know I would have never made the Debate Team. My income is low, so the price of gas impacts me in a negative way. What I am doing is trying to drive less and keep my car running good. I also try to fill my tank at half full instead of running down to empty. This doesn’t make any sense, just a mental health thing.
I think there are people that make enough money that the price of gas is not going to hurt too bad.
We have been spoiled by instant gratification. Look at the Hot Button Topics the press uses everyday to beat us over the head. Don’t be brainwashed just because the PRESS has to stay afloat! I guess WE are like are own mini business’s. Will we have to sell our boat, motor home, drop our athletic club membership to stay in business?? Do you have a budget?? Maybe some people don’t balance their checkbooks and maybe they max out all their credit cards! Buying gas for my car is similiar to paying my rent. If I want to drive, if I want a roof over my head.
It’s our choice to drive, so buying gas, tuning the car, buying tires ect… are part of the game.
We pay less than any other country for gas. We have the least fuel efficient cars in the world. We want this! We want that! In my opinion, the USA isn’t anywhere near ready to change over to another fuel source and even if our country did change it’s fuel source, I am confident that WE won’t be paying less in the long run.
Not buying gas for ONE day is a idea, but if you want to do something, look at your entire lifestyle, your waste management. Look at your life and reduce the whining about the Oil Companies and the Government.
Have you seen that TV commercial about the Pizza Chain Board meeting?? The guy is making a presentation of how to cut costs and he suggests ONLY selling the cardboard box the Pizza comes in because the cardboard costs have got too expensive and WERE NOT THERE YET!
Doug
I kind of agree with Doug. No matter how much pixxxing and moaning we do not much will come of it.
I drive a Chevy S10. Bought it new in 2000 and have kept somwhat of a track of the MPG I have gotten in the 130,000 plus miles it has on it. I would regularly get about 20 MPG. I took the following steps in the last several months: Made sure tires were inflated properly, drove slower (55 instead of 65), used the cruise control more, used the AC very very little and most of all tried to buy my gas first thing in the morning before the suns heat causes it to expand. My mileage has jumped to close to 25 MPG which to me is meaningful.
Not buying gas for one day really won’t make much of an impact on the oil companies. Most likely everyone would still be driving. The biggest impression that could be made would be for everyone not to drive for a day. Not use any gas or fuel.
I’m not a small car expert, but this one looks very impressive! Honda is a auto maker on a roll. www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/Fu … eId=109810
You can upgrade to 16 inch wheels also.
One reason I’m impressed, besides the gas mileage, is that this little car can carry a LOT of fishing stuff!
Doug
I sold my 4-door 4x4 pickup and replaced it with a small 4-door sedan, increasing my gas mileage by almost 50%. Most of us remember the oil crisis of the 70s and how it changed the automobile buying and driving habits of the world. This was what brought the American automakers to their knees and ushered in the era of Toyota, Honda, Nissan (Datsun at that time), et al. But 18-wheelers got BIGGER and still get the same 4-6 mpg they did back then. Police cruisers are still big, rear wheel drive sedans that get less than 20 mpg. And airlines are still flying fuel-guzzling jumbo jets. Farming equipment is not much more fuel efficient than it was in the 70s. And locomotive engines designed in the 1960s are still pulling our trains all over the country spewing noxious diesel fumes.
All this talk of private consumers down-sizing yet again to “save the world” just doesn’t sit well with me when they keep asking us to do it so that huge corporations and governments can gobble up the supply that we just conserved by tightening our belts…again.
I’ve gotten at least 2 email messages this time of year for the past 3 years about not-buyinng-gas-day. It is always the same message in a different format, and it is always the same result. Nothing happens. Prices do not drop, and only once did I see a news story about it on the evening news.
As others have mentioned: the logic just doesn’t follow through. It looks great on paper, I mean if I owned a company that lost $2 billion in a day, I’d be the first to freak out and do whatever I could to change and save it. But, if the day before that and the day after that big-loss day, I saw double or triple my average revenue, I would sit back in my big 54th floor office, light up a big cigar and smile. It looks great on paper, but never follows through to make an impact.
That being said, I will go along with this gas boycott on the 15th because I have a glimmer of hope that somehow, some magical impact will be felt. I certainly wouldn’t bet on it, but what is the harm in trying?
Agreeing with others, this isn’t going to solve the rising gasoline price problems. I think Dshock nailed it with is piece on American Lifestyle. We are a society of instant gratification. Until that changes, expect things to continue on as they are; and I don’t see that lifestyle changing ever, unless something very tragic and devastating takes place. I’m a religious man and so there is light at the end of my tunnel. Whether that is a reality or not doesn’t matter. All we can do is the best we can with what we have. We cannot change other’s opinions or lifestyles. They must make that change on their own. But we can change ourselves.
I’m not sure who first uttered this phrase, but it’s simplicity screams eloquence and it certainly rings true to me: “Things that don’t change, or get better, tend to remain the same.”
yeah - lifestyles chagne - and we moved closer to the river
There’s a movement afoot in these necks of the woods - not to skip buying gas on any certain day - because as is known, you just need to top off the tank another day. However, the movement here is to move away from the big companies - and here that’s Shell and Petro Canada. There’s lots of better options, one being Husky/Mohawk that has a minimum 90 octane with ethanol (and the van loves that juice) … or Co-op’s that run profit sharing at fiscal years end. There are options out there. Take away the $$$ which equate to power - from teh big corporations and maybe - MAYBE - something will change.
A big maybe, but it is somethign we can do. Putting someone else at the top of the heap - but then again - can change them too if they get … silly.
