Gas should be $4.00 a gallon?

Question

I am in favor of boycott of purchasing fuel from one brand of fuel for a number of set days and when that station lowers its fuel price move to another brand and do the same . I know this would work if the people in this country could only band together. Four days at a time I think would really put a hurt on their pockets. When asked why would this work? Look at how we have arrived at the price of fuel today. The price goes up at one station then back down at the next and never stays there for long and of course it also never returns to the starting price. I said back when it first started doing this that it would not stop until $4 a gallon. I might be wrong about the $4 part!!

Please don't blame this on our President. We are in a free society and it is nothing but corporate greed not to mention (US) stockholders that want huge profits for OUR investments. Rising fuel costs are crippling our country. I will not begin to state any of the ways. You have a mind and know it to be a fact.

So back to a boycott any good ideas on how it could get started???

REMEMBER THE MEDIA STATES SOMETHING AND GUESS WHAT IT HAPPENS!!!!

Answer 1

i know one thing that would really work but it would take every individual who drives a car to work and that is for them to call in and say they don't have the gas to get to work and cant afford to come in to work because of gas prices,but this would take everyone who drives a car and that will never happen,if this lasted for a few days,the gas company's would be getting e-mails and letters by the millions,that might lower it,and your right it never returns to what it was before it went up,they keep going up with it,we will be paying 4-5 bucks a gallon for it by mid summer,sad but probably true,good luck.

Answer 2

Why not blame it dubya?  He's the doofus that started the war that alienated most of the Arab world against the US.  And he's also the one who hasn't encouraged energy research suffiiciently.  And he's also the one who hasn't encouraged corporate America to concentrate on improving and reducing car emissions and pollution.

Answer 3

I don't know how you could get it started, but it sounds like a good idea.  The problem w/ trying to start a boycott of this nature is the fact that so many people actually do innocently forget to get gas at a specific branded station if they sign on line petitions or receive an on-line prompt to do so, and some people just don't have the time to go to another pump station to get the gas at the right place for the day.

Sounds like a great idea, but really hard to enforce.  If you figure out how to do it I would be more than glad to be a supporter of your cause, because my piggy bank is getting pretty slim in the gas dept.  Good luck, hope to hear from you on this subject again.

Answer 4

You will have to do some more active campaigning than just posing the question on yahoo answers.

Answer 5

This won't work. Gasoline prices are fast to go up yet slow to come back down. If everyone continues to drive as is then they will need the same amount of gasoline. The gas stations will simply wait patiently for their turn. If a particular gas station is boycotted for an extended period, then you will simply hurt the station. Gas stations don't make much money to begin with. Really, there isn't much money to be made in gasoline period. Crude oil is where the money is at and they will simply shift it to the demand. Since we would use the same amount of gasoline the prices would be unaffected.

Now if we banded together to reduce our petroleum use over the long term then the prices will settle down. The problem is that even with increased gasoline prices, the demand keeps going up. There is a long lead in time, which means that if we could reduce fuel consumption by a gallon per person per month, the prices will stay constant then quickly fall.

The irony is that the people who caused this complain the most. SUVs and light trucks are great workhorses, but they require a huge amount of fuel. A big part of the problem is the number of fast and aggressive drivers as they use up even more fuel. I have no problem with people who need such a vehicle and use it. It's the people that don't need it or even close to it that are causing the problem. I see more often than not just a driver and they aren't hauling anything. They could get around with half the gas with no problem.

Many people could get along with 5,6,7 + dollar per gallon gasoline. Many would be in a financial disaster. With the market forces and the continually increasing fuel prices, I won't be surprised if we see that in a 5 years.