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I don't think the real issue here is where it came from. I think what is trying to be said here is "what can we do about this?" When will this end or will it ever end? The way things seem to be going, if someone has a bad day all of us pay for it at the pumps. (and I am NOT calling the disaster in the south a "bad day")

Is there a way for us, the consumer to take control of this? When is enough in fact enough?

This is exactly what i'm trying to say.

Moral Hazard, my math was way off, my apologies. It was rather early when I typed this.

Going back and refiguring, if we are using 20.4 million bbl/d times 30 days, that's 612 million bbl/d. Multiplying that by the earlier average figure I got off of Bloomberg this morning ($66.60/barrel)that's $4,075,900,000. So this does total most of our reserves, but the dollar figure of what OPEC would lose from us is much higher. Maybe a 30 day boycott isn't too smart, but SOMETHING. If we do what everyone suggests where we fill up on a certain date and dont buy gas again for a whole day...we are STILL buying gas.

Tax-chick, I honestly feel 'gouged' at the pumps. Perhaps it is legitamate pricing...but maybe it's not.

I've heard rumors of under-production on purpose, refineries being completely shut down for general maintenence which is not how they are supposed to do it, etc etc. I am not saying I believe these rumors, but I don't know what to think. As it is, I go from home to school, to work and home late at night to make my gas stretch for almost two weeks. This has been going on for a year now and we keep hearing about prices going down. When? Going down from $2.50 to $2.45 to me isn't going down.

Like I said, Dutch14 hit the nail on the head. I'm just doing a little thinking to figure out if we can do something. Driving less probably won't happen with everyone.