I heard there is going to be a gas-out on may 15th.?

Question

people are not suppose to buy gas on this day . are you participating?

Answer 1

Gas-outs are symbolic efforts that do nothing to affect the overall consumption level.  I ignore them.  If I have to get gas, I will.

Answer 2

oh now the may 15th is my birthday but  never mind, i don't know i thing is not good to buy gas then

Answer 3

Well I suppose now is not a good time to buy that brand new truck...

Answer 4

all i can say is that if you do it (and I will), don't drive that day, so the gas companies lose the sale completely.

if you just fill up the day before, and drive as usual, the gas companies will still sell the same amount of gas. so you accomplish nothing.

Answer 5

This the first that i have heard of it. But Yes I will

Answer 6

everyday is a gasout day for me. I don't drive. I either ask for a ride or use public transportation or walk. So participate everyday.

Answer 7

This little gem has been floating around since 1997 -where have YOU been?

OK, suppose everyone  -and I mean EVERYONE- observed it. What then? Setting aside the inconvenience, you would see consumption go down on the 15th ...

...and then what do YOU think would happen on the 16th?

Exactly.

Answer 8

I just received this email, and I found the following comments from urbanlegends.about.com:

1. There was no nationwide "gas out" in 1997. There was one in 1999, but it didn't cause gas prices to drop 30 cents per gallon overnight. In fact, it didn't cause them to drop at all. Despite the popularity of the email campaign, the event itself attracted scant participation and was completely ineffectual.

2. There are over 205 million Internet users in the United States, far more than the 73 million claimed.

3. If, say, a hundred million drivers refused en masse to fill up their tanks on May 15, the total of what they didn't spend could amount to as much as $3 billion. However, it doesn't follow that such a boycott would actually decrease oil companies' revenues by that amount, given that the average sales of gasoline across the entire U.S. is under $1 billion per day in the first place.

4. Whether the total was a half-billion, 3 billion, or 10 billion dollars, the sales missed due to a one-day consumer boycott wouldn't hurt the oil companies one bit. Think about it. Every single American who doesn't buy gas on Tuesday is still going to have to fill up their tank on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. Sales for the week would end up being perfectly normal, or very close to it. A meaningful boycott would entail participants actually consuming less fuel -- and doing so in a sustained, disciplined fashion over a period of time -- not just choosing to wait a day or two before filling up as usual.