Gas strike may 1st?

Question

What is wrong with you people?

do you HONESTLY think you're going to make an impact?

the only way to affect the price is to either decrease demand (not happening) or increase supply.....

qty demanded will mean a lower price, but it doesn't affect the whole demand curve...

we represent a small portion of the market, and in tern are price "takers"...

until a viable alternative makes it mainstream, there is no point in doing any "striking" or "boycotting" cause we depend upon it...

if they (the oil companies) really wante to be turds, they could just shut off the valves for a day and watch the prices go through the ceiling...

lets continue to be civil, make advances in technology, and get moving on these viable alternatives....

why "strike"? do you REALLY think it will help?

Answer 1

yeah, not buying gas isn't the same as not using gas.  if this worked like people wanted it to, and nobody bought gas May 1st, then people would be lining up to get gas today so they don't need it tomorrow, or they'll get it on the 2nd.  you're doing nothing to reduce consumption, just changing the day you buy it.

Answer 2

You are so right.  A gas strike here will have no impact on the oil industry.  We in the US should have been paying these prices for gas for thirty years now and in metric!  For Americans to complain about their gas prices is like Americans complaining about taxes.  Don't make me laugh!  What taxes?  Compare what we pay here to what ppl in Europe have paid for decades!  There's no problem--it's just another weapon of mass distraction.

Answer 3

I agree that it won't work cuz people will just get more gas the day before and the day after. What might work is not buy gas for a month, and that's if d**n near every car owner does it. After a month or so, we will realize how much we don't need to drive as much as we do.

Answer 4

oil producers should not be punished for being successful...so they stared a great business and the supply is low (not really their fault) ..we should blame the gov. for not using our own resources like umm maybe Alaska...the strike will prove nothing...ooh and we should all stop complaining cause Europe pays over 8.00 a gallon.....it is your choice to buy a big suv or buy a car that gets great gas mileage... we have come to far and it will be really hard for us to adapt to the circumstances....

Answer 5

I agree, I admit defeat....the oil companies are too big, and as soon as the strike is over everyone will be scrambling back to the pumps and higher prices the next day cause they need gas.

Maybe I'll just take advantage of the slower business day while everyone else strikes and not have to wait in line in my car for a free pump.

Answer 6

No, i agree it won't help. All people are doing is deferring their gas purchases.  What's the big deal anyway?  gas costs $9/gallon in europe.

Answer 7

You're really smart. I wish it could work though.

Answer 8

no

Answer 9

its all good knowing that you took Economics in ur course of education but. . . . .

strike wouldnt really do much but its something, the only way that they boycottying and strike will work is when people stop driving all of their cars(most familys have like 2-3 cars) start carpooling, taking the subway or bus. that way it will decrease the demand on oil and therefore they will lower the gas prices. thats probably the only way.

out here in California its gonna be very hard to do that. but we all gotta work together to make our economy much better.

dont say strike is bad, this and that. cuz what ever we are doing we are doing it as a whole not as individuals. and what ever dose happen effects us all.

F.Y.I  there is enough oil in Alaska to supple the USA with oil for years and years but the enviormentalists say that we cant dig and take out oil because of the animals? now that sucks!

Answer 10

We have to do something. Going on strike helped to remove the monopoly that At&t had on telecommunication. I don't know what to do but I do know that we cannot sit back and take it in the #$@!!

Answer 11

One day of strike through-out the country would send a message to the oil companies that if its well organized that people wont go back on their vow to go a day without gas, who's to say it wont happen again. A days profit in the oil business is huge. The government has their profits with the price of fuel and benefits for not removing taxes off gasoline. In  that case, politicians will have no desire to do this. Sometimes, the things you depend on now need to be sacrificed short-term to benefit you in the long term. If our country can survive a day where no one is at the gas pump handing over our hard earned dollar to these so worthy oil industry business men and women, we will absolutely get a response in our favor.

1 day will change the opinion of the world we are living in for the better but imagine if we could hold out even longer.

Answer 12

exxon makes $16,000 a second but still one day wont make a difference at all, if anything it could raise prices faster

Answer 13

i think that it is stupid...no one will actully take it seriouslly!

Answer 14

I just want it to go down

Answer 15

do you need a hug?

Answer 16

To truly strike against gas, you'd have to agree not to drive, period.  This country isn't ready to give that up.  Any strike is going to be pointless because this is a global problem with no one real culprit.

Answer 17

Nope.  It's one of those silly email forwards that always get passed around when gas prices are on the rise.

And if people really thought about it, they would realize that you can't 'strike' by not buying gas for one day.

Jeez.  I don't even NEED to buy gas tomorrow.

Answer 18

i don't think it's going to to anything either but it's worth a try... i miss the 99 cent per gallon days when i started driving like 7 years ago...

i got a text message from someone about this today, i think it's getting pretty popular.. definitely worth a try.

Answer 19

lol

I say we switch to nuclear power. If someone has an accident and dies...well, then we will also decrease the demand :-) j/k

Answer 20

gas is to expensive

Answer 21

americans going on a gas strike. lol...that wouldn't last more than a day

-even if america cuts back on consumption it wont make much of an impact.  the global demand is rising higher every day with economic power-houses like china and india consuming more oil.  e

plus the 12 member nations of OPEC refuse to increase supply - and really why would they....when U.S. and europe are pursuing alternative energy sources more than ever...

tons of other factors come into play as well...things like being charged a security fee to pump it from the ground...with so much un-rest in the middle east (P.K.K. in turkey / iraq / afgan / iran etc.)  i dont see prices falling any time soon.

Answer 22

I think it is silly. Maybe going on strike for a month or a year or somthing, but one DAY?! How will that help?