Listen, you aren't going to be able to do much about these prices because if you won't pay, someone in Poland or Japan will, and the petroloum products will go there.
The most effective thing you can do, and I've done it a lot, is to find two gas stations is sight of one another where one is charging a cent or two more than the other, drive in to the higher price station and ask to see the man in charge.
Then tell him in a matter of fact voice, that you are about to leave his station and drive to the nearby station, and make sure he understands why. If enough drivers do this, maybe we can keep pressure on prices.
But, the fact is that despite all the handwringing and cries of pain, most folks continue to drive into whatever gas station inspires them and fill 'er up. Oil companies know this, and so does the government.
The ironic thing is that now that Democrats finally have managed to get what they have been clamoring and struggling for - for years - high energy prices, especially, high fuel prices, they are trying to use this against Republicans.
If my memory serves me right, the Countries you have mentioned been around for some time. Are you telling me that those countries have changed their habit overnight?
Better yet, let's just shut down all the gas stations and then everyone can drive their cars to the refineries, or for the cheapest gas, they can drive up to an oil well and hand pump a few barrels of crude to have for their own.
Then they can drive that car with the bucketloads of crude oil there to their friendly neighborly refinery and ask them nicely if they'd be a pal and crack that sucker for you, for a $1.
They say, we'll go you one better - you probably don't want to wait, what with your busy schedule, so here, here's a bucket of gasoline we've already made for you, do you want a tire, too? How about some carpeting or linoleum? Some pizza cheese? It's your crude oil - tell us what you want.
You want a whole barrel of gasoline from your barrel of crude oil? Sorry, we can't do that, unless you want to pay a lot extra. But you still have to take the plastic stuff, because it's *your* barrel of crude oil.
Or, if you like, we can give you 15 gallons of gasoline and then the leftover feedstock, to do what you want with it. Got a 747 in your hangar? A space rocket? A camp stove? We can refer you to some specialists to get the just what you want.
Oh, sorry, I forgot. This is California. Here's your 12 gallons of gasoline and we'll ship the rest of your stuff to TX, where it's legal to possess it. Thanks for stopping by our refinery! You can pick up your custom order in 2 weeks, with a deposit. Keep coming back!