Well gas finally cost $4.11 per gallon for premium in my area…. I am very angry about it so I wonder if we can, as a smart group of consumers do a strike!
Let’s said everybody fill up only on Sunday at night to cause some disruption to the oil companies supply chain management.
It’s just an idea …..Let me hear yours….
I'm frustrated as well and premium is starting to be over $4 here on the left coast. I'm not too sure your idea would work as you are still buying gas on another day, although I may be wrong. I think a better way is to try and carpool whenever possible. If more people did it would cut into profits more as less gas would be sold. I think getting our Smarts help, because I know once I get mine, I'll be doubling my MPG, so less trips to the gas station. ;)
I don't know if I completely agree with your idea of buying gas at a certain time of day. The fact is you're still buying the gas from them.
My idea: well it's not exactly mine but I saw it on a thread of an alternative website>
We start by boycotting any Mobile/Exxon gas stations. They are the biggest oil companies in the US. They also happen to have the biggest gain in net profits last year, while the dollar was slipping to a record low. Go figures!!!
You don't buy gas from them EVER. Not today. Not next week. What happens is that they will feel the pinch. They will eventually HAVE to lower prices. Even when they do lower it by a few pennies, still don't go back. Eventually, this will lead to a massive reductions because everyone else also will have to lower prices to match. I doubt it will go back to 99 cents but they can reduce by a dollar and still make profits. So anyone that tells you that they selling gas at a very low margin is not being truthful.
This can't happen unless you tell 10 friends and they tell 10 friends and so on and so on. If you talk about a few million customers, that's when changes happen. Until then, they are just laughing at us.
There is only one thing anyone can do other than boycotting certain stations that gouge the dummies that continue to go there.....plan on buying a PHEV or EV when they come out. Not immediate fix...but one that will get their attention. For now, just having a smart is doing something about it, in my opinion. Imagine having to fillup any vehicle that gets less than 25 mpg????
I am so glad I have my smartie!!
Maybe high gas prices are a good thing for the long term, it may encourage alternative fuel development and funding.
For example I know ethanol is a inefficient bad idea the way it is curently produced in the USA but there is huge potential to produce ethanol trough biomass and other methods that don't take away land use for food products.
Funding could move us towards that goal and people need to encourage their legislators.
America needs to look at high oil prices as a opportunity to develop alternative fuels and take the lead.
If goverment wold just stop the affair with the oil companies.
Ethanol, Biodiesel, Compressed Natural Gas, Dual Fuel Vehicles, Plug In Electric, Generator integration to electric veihicles, Battery Tech., etc....
Gas strike ideas come up now and then, but any past token effort at these well-organized strikes has not, and probably COULD not, affect the market prices for world oil.
Blackeagle: What you say is what I've wondered about. I've read this before and it seemed to make sense. I just wish there was some way to make shareholders take some of this burden. Our lives depend on gasoline right now and it's just not fair to expect us to absorb this exorbitant amount.
Blackeagle: What you say is what I've wondered about. I've read this before and it seemed to make sense. I just wish there was some way to make shareholders take some of this burden. Our lives depend on gasoline right now and it's just not fair to expect us to absorb this exorbitant amount.
I wish I can think that shareholders actually cares about the little guys as they sunbathe in their 4th Mediterranean home or their multi-million dollar yatch. The reason why they will never lower their prices because they don't need to. They know as long as the demand grows, they can lay back and watch the numbers climb. Oh...by the way...you can count on people like Clinton, Obama, McCain and others to be shareholders (maybe not Exxon/Mobile), but they are tied in to the big oil groups.
Damn....didn't want to get political on this one. Oh well.
The strike is an interesting idea, but gas is a commodity that people have to have. It is relatively "inelastic" to use an economics term because for the most part people have few alternatives, at least in the short run. Unfortunately, the only way gas prices have a chance of going down right now is if people use less gas. The Smart is a step in the right direction. An even better step would be if we all started to live closer to where we work and had decent rapid transit.
Last edited by Smartdavis; 04-16-2008 at 04:03 PM.
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I'm not too sure your idea would work as you are still buying gas on another day, although I may be wrong. I think a better way is to try and carpool whenever possible. If more people did it would cut into profits more as less gas would be sold. I think getting our Smarts help, because I know once I get mine, I'll be doubling my MPG, so less trips to the gas station. ;)
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