$4 a Gallon - Gas Price Protest - Anyone Interested?

Question

We get it! They tell us to stop driving or carpool to work. Well, some of us NEED to drive to work and/or need to drive for work and have to pay out of our own pockets for gas. Let's not forget the home owners need of oil to heat their homes.

The worlds Gov'ts are corrupt and All have their hands, elbows deep, in the gas/oil issue. What I am trying to do is start a formal protest and not one of these online protests or one of the "Don't buy gas on this or that date" text and email protests either. They don't work! I am trying to get people outdoors, in masses, to gather at a site, cut out of work and actually protest. Signs, banners and ATTENTION! I'm thinking mass protest at the Town of Babylon Town Hall. But I just need ideas from everyone on the best date to hold it. Any ideas? Anyone interested? We need as many serious people as possible. We've done enough complaining and we've listened to town and fed gov't telling us what they are thinking of doing and doing NOTHING about it.

Answer 1

the thing is that it can still go up

let the oil companies drill for more oil

develop other forms of energy

Answer 2

What is the goal?  What will this accomplish?

Answer 3

Interested, yes. but who are you going to protest?

The US Government? Only to protest the taxes that they apply to the fuel, not the price?

Big Oil? They get to pass on taxes to the consumer, so it's not really their fault, oh, and they still have to purchase their raw materials (oil) on the market.

The Marketplace? if only you could identify a target in the marketplace, then perhaps. The price of oil is driven by supply and demand. It is not so much that the supply has dwindled, but more that there is a greater demand for oil. India and China both have become huge consumers. They were not so big a consumer a few years ago, but they are now.

That leaves the Environmentalists. Protest them. It is because of the environmentalists that the USA cannot build any more refineries, nor drill for oil we know to exist (increasing supply). But then again, who are the environmentalists? Again, another nebulous blob like

"the market" or "the government".

Protest sure, but who to protest is the question. After all is said and done, protesting the price of oil will fall on the ears of people (Oil Suppliers)  who do not care about your protest, because in the end, you will still buy their oil at the market price.

Thus, if you really want to protest the price of oil, decrease the demand for it, and ride your bike to work everyday.

Answer 4

Simple economics my friend,

High demand and low supply = high prices

What you should protest is that the government take greater steps to produce/ develope other forms of energy

Answer 5

Boycotts NEVER work since people will just fill up the day before.  Besides, the main issue is the cost of oil from the main suppliers in relation to the weak dollar. Hurting the individual gas stations is stupid.

BTW, some of us HAVE NO CHOICE when it comes to driving. Personally, reasonable public transportation doesn't exist and when since we are self employed, we have to drive to the client. It would look really bad to take the bus to a client's office in downtown Los Angeles.

In addition, all this c**p about taxing the oil companies is stupid. They just pass the tax onto the consumer, making things worse.

Answer 6

four dollars a gallon isn't that bad if you understand that it will soon be seven dollars a gallon

Answer 7

If you want to protest, and be effective, vote out the criminals who are on the pay roll of the big oil companies.  Allow the Free Market to bring oil prices down.  Abolish the Department of Energy (and also the Departments of Education and Homeland Terrorism).

High oil prices are the result of monopoly, and monopoly can only exist with the help of government.  Get government out of the energy business and prices will come down.  Inform your friends about this fact.  Expose our criminal politicians, and then work to defeat them at the polls.

There is no shortage of oil in the world.  There is oil everywhere.  This is another myth propagated by the big oil companies.  

The Environmental Movement is financed by the big oil companies, to stifle competition.  This is called the Hegelian Dialectic.  You create your own opposition.

Answer 8

The gas prices are up for a couple reasons. The biggest is that there is a lack of supply. This is economics, you would be throughing your time away protesting it. If you want to protest the idiots in our government that will not let the oil companies drill for more oil, then I will be on board.

Answer 9

Nah, not just yet.  Remind me again when it gets to five dollars a gallon, then I may give it some thought.  I really expect to see that number, or very close to it by the end of the year.

Answer 10

When WE demand 4 day work weeks (instant 20% savings in commuting costs) or we start DEMANDING wage increases... or we stop coming to work because our tank is empty....

THEN we will get some action. So long as "America keeps working"....   expect nothing to happen.

Answer 11

Actually more demand and less supply is still valid.

Mexico

Russia

Saudi Arabia

are all producing less oil then in years passed.

Every year, an additional 20-30 million more Chinese families become car owners.  And, roughly another 10 million in India.   The economies and car ownership rates in Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Eastern Europe are also growing.

Supply and demand still dictates.

Answer 12

Tighten your belt . Worse days are coming. The mess` created by the Bush Administration in Iraq and Afghanistan will take a long time to sort out . The crude oil price is linked to USD and the US Dollar is losing its value very fast , just as fast as as its economy is.

There's no escape from this. Gas price is nothing compared to what are in the offing even if the Republicans are out of power. They country has committed to a huge non productive expenditure in both Iraq and Afghanistan........to wind up from there will take a long time and this nation has to pay very heavy cost during the withdrawal process.