Is there anything that we can seriously do about lowering gas prices?

Question

Is there anything that we can seriously do about lowering gas prices?

Answer 1

I realized to save money just for gas...

I'm cancelling cable this week.  We pay almost $50/month just to have it in analog and we don't even get or like to watch 90% of those channels. I'd rather invest that money. If the price keeps going up, we may have to cancel cellphones too. We will completely stop patronizing restaurants, movie theatres, festivals, amusement parks, video rental stores, malls, etc. No vacations period.

These businesses will surely feel the impact of the rising gas price.

We will have to meet our basic needs first - that's food, water, shelter, clothing, gas for work, etc.

Answer 2

If everyone cut their use of gas by just 10% it would cause prices to drop!

Answer 3

stop driving (or heating your house, or buying groceries)because

Answer 4

Less demand = lower prices.  Unfortunately, it's *global* demand, not just in specific towns or states.

A stronger dollar would equal buy more oil for the buck, so a stronger economy would help.

Just pumping more oil out of the ground doesn't necessarily increase supply if the refineries are maxed out . . . .

Answer 5

BOYCOTT!!!!

-_- which will never happen

;]

Answer 6

If no one in the United states bought gas on a certain day, maybe earth day, ga would go down.  But that would be impossible to organize.

Answer 7

nope buy a bike...

Answer 8

I can almost gurantee I'll be called a smartass for this one, but please know I am really considering doing this, so keep that in mind as you read on.

The best way to stick it to 'the man' is not to use his c**p at all. By that I mean going back to the old days. No not horseys! I mean blowing the dust off grandads ol' moonshine still and making some fuel-grade liquor.

Posted all over the net are some of the best brewing recipies and blueprints for moonsine stills you can find. I'm not going to get into all the specifics, but suffice it to say, once everything is set up initially, it can be made in quantity for roughly $1/gallon.

Edelbrock just came out with an E85 spreadbore 4 barrel carburetor. A little fine tweaking and it'll burn your E100 brew just fine.  That said, The rest of my answer will use a small block V8 engine as the example. However, most any engine can be modified to work.

There are still numerous well kept V8 cars out there to mount your alcoholic small block in. The Fuel system will have to be swapped out for stainless steel setup from tank to motor to avoid corrosion issues.

Now the naysayers argue that E85 cars get rotton gas mileage. That they do! Because compression has to be kept at gasoline levels, (under 11:1 most cases) it doesn't even come close to taking full advantage of E100s potential. Being a cooler burning lower energy yield fuel, (sounds an aweful lot like racing gas don't it?), E100 burning engines can go up as high as 16:1+ compression with no spark knock!  With the higher compression, and an otherwise mild engine build, you  can get the same 25-28mpg as the last Z28Camaro did or better, while churning roughly twice the RWHP, with pollution levels low enough to pass epa smog sniffer tests without the heavy, complex, emmissions equipment.

All boils down to this question:

How serious are you about getting out from under the big oil boondogle?

P.S.- I realize my motorhead answer was absolutly no help for your next  fillup, but it is a legitimate long term solution that I have the feeling will rekindle the ridge-running days of old if gas continues it's climb to $5/gallon like they're all promising.

I can't say I won't.....

Answer 9

I know, I'm over it all ready....I just got a raise in pay FINALLY and it all, and then some is going into my gas tank!!!  I can't get ahead no matter what I do it seems.

Answer 10

well, im only a teenager, and you probably know all this but here-

we have a horrible ecomomy right now and with that it demands for higher prices for gsa, milk, etc. so i dont think we have much to do to lower the prices for now,but come up with/use a different fuel source or different gas milage...?

maybe so. :)

Answer 11

if we boycott one oil company for 1 month, it will work because they will have to lower there prices to make room for the inventory coming in, Lets say company A is selling gas and company B is not, then company B will lower there price to beat company A price, then there are price wars between company A and B... Lets just say we try for June 1st for the boycott

Answer 12

Use less!

Answer 13

"Lets say company A is selling gas and company B is not, then company B will lower there price to beat company A price, then there are price wars between company A and B"

Company B will just sell their gas to company A or company C or company D.  They don't have to take a reduction at all.  What needs to happen is the government step in and fix this.

Answer 14

yes boycott the gas pumps use cloth grocery bags and try not to use anything that is a petroleum based product, cal all your states reps and everyone that you can in Washington d.c.