>> >> In April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in protest >> Of gas prices. It was most effective and gasoline prices dropped 30 >> Cents a gallon overnight.
>> On May 15th 2007, encourage all your friends and families 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, 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 companies' >> Pockets in just one day.
So please do not go to the gas station on May >> 15th and lets try to make ourselves heard by the industry for at least >> One day. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MsStar39 posted on May 04, 2007
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SeanRenaud said on May 04, 2007....
Show me the proof of this, I call bullshit. Why wouldn't they just wait until the next day when twice as many people as normal are going to have to fill up and jack up the prices to show us our place in the world. That's what I would do. -
MsStar39 said on May 04, 2007....
Sean I don't remember, but they said it worked in 1997. I am desperate enough to give it a try. The cheapest gas here is $3.49 a gallon. -
SeanRenaud said on May 04, 2007....
Same here, and I use the higher quality stuff. I know they said, but who is they? I think the only thing this MIGHT accomplish is making them raise the price the day after, but in all likelihood nothing at all will result. There is another better plan that was going around earlier.It's just more work than anybody is going to do, it involves filling up EVERYDAY, the basic idea is that if people fill up a little bit every day rather than all at once that individual gas stations won't empty as quickly which will hurt the truckers so on and so forth as the individual gas stations buy less gas.Also you can do what I already do 90% of the time and go the extra mile to avoid Exxon Mobil.If this worked in 97 though (which maybe it did I don't know EVERYTHING) surely there must be documentation that can be looked up to prove it. If we know that it worked then I'm all about it. My opinion though is that somebody made this up in the hopes that the idea would work.