A chile cook-off?
“Maybe we can get 10,000 truckers to clog the beltway...”
Very French. I don’t recall if it worked for them.
I guess I’ll have to top off on the 14th and fill up again on the 16th. That’ll show them!
A liberal friend asked me to join this protest...I told her I don’t understand how it would work when every driver would gas up their car the day before, thus causing a huge increase in demand. I think she was going to cry.
If you look behind the curtain the new diesel low sulfur regs are hurting refining. Refinery capacity is down from the usual 92-94% to 88% or so. This means less to go around. The new diesel fuel sucks, my truck hates the stuff.
Building a new refinery or 2 would help a whole lot more. I think you know who opposes that.
The only way to impact gas prices would be to reduce driving, and/or increase gas mileage. Increase supply and prices will drop. Basic stuff. This stunt will only cause more buying on the day before and the day after, but unless total miles driven changes, people will have to buy the same amount of gasoline. A one day drop will be followed by a one day bump.
It’s the beginning of May, aren’t we supposed to be bitching about the evils of Cinco De Mayo? Much better than recycling an 8 year-old e-mail chain of a stupid plan that wouldn’t do anything http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp
No one day boycott of ANYTHING will EVER effect the prices ONE BIT. Think about it, think about it slowly and thuroughly and the whole foolishness of the idea becomes crystal clear. Of course if that doesn’t work read the Snopes link.
What are these "Conumers"? and if they do work, where can I buy one? I want my gas prices to drop.
the problem with gas prices owes to the impeachement of richard m. nixon.
while the country’s attention was fixed on watergate,
opec formed.
then, jimmy carter let iran go bezerk.
the so-called “american empire” has been imploding since.
I dunno but if the prices creep very much higher I may have to quit driving my 10 mpg vehicle for my daily commute and seek something that gets a little better mileage.
Thats called reducing consumption, or reducing demand.
Much more sensible than not buying gas on one day but then buying the day after.
I’ll be in Thailand, so I’m only buying Thai gas on May 15th!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1828504/posts
Using and buying the same amount of gasoline during the month of May, but giving the local service stations a day of rest only convinces the “big oil” companies that many people do not understand supply and demand.
And the claim that this worked once before is Urban Legend.
Just so there is no doubt that this claim is false.
U.S. Regular Retail Gasoline Prices, Cents per Gallon, Weekly
from the Energy Information Administration
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mg_rt_usw.htm
1997
03/31 120.0
04/07 120.3
04/14 119.9
04/21 119.9
04/28 119.5
05/05 119.3
Those of that have diesels know that after many months, the price of diesel dropped below the price of regular gasoline.
Why stop at one day? There are 364 more you can do without.....maybe it would be free by then?
We do not have the capacity to produce the ethanol mandated as an oxygenating additive in fuel. We have to import ethanol, and iirc, there is a 42 cent per gallon tariff on the stuff.
In addition, it cannot be pipelined large distances straight, or even when blended with motor fuels, because it absorbs water and will corrode the line. It has to be transported separately and blended with the petroleum fraction near the point of sale.
This all adds to the price of a gallon of fuel.
But wait... There's more!
In addition, the cellulosic ethanol is not really in production yet, so the ethanol produced here is largely produced from corn, which is becoming more expensive as feed for cattle. It turns out many of the same starches which make for good food also make for good alcohol production. So beef prices will be increasing as well.
Now doesn't that give you the warm fuzzies?
So for all the usual MSM vitriol blaming eeevil oil, it just might be eeevil ethanol instead.