Boycott Gas on May 19th
POSTED BY: DucesTecum
UPDATED: Saturday, May 22, 2004 03:40
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Originally posted by SevenPercent:
This kind of thing doesnt work- Check www.snopes.com , it's a kind of chain-letter hoax- Besides, common sense tells you this isnt so, because stockpiles are just that, stockpiles- What you dont sell today, you will sell tomorrow or to a different buyer- People can only go without gas for so long- That's why Big Oil has all of us in a stranglehold to begin with- It's not like we dont need gas, they know we need it it and we know it, which is why this would never work-
Just a quick comment,
The oil companies don't own the car companies. The oil companies didn't create the demand for gas, they are trying to fill the demand for gas. If people really want to make a difference, stop buying big cars and drive less. Force the auto makers to make smaller cars that get better mileage.
Most oil refineries will blend and sell gasoline as quick as possible, sometimes the same day. They don't stock finished gas blends because its unpaid inventory.
Thump! That's me getting off my soapbox now
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Originally posted by Someone:
Just a quick comment,
The oil companies don't own the car companies. The oil companies didn't create the demand for gas, they are trying to fill the demand for gas. If people really want to make a difference, stop buying big cars and drive less. Force the auto makers to make smaller cars that get better mileage.
Most oil refineries will blend and sell gasoline as quick as possible, sometimes the same day. They don't stock finished gas blends because its unpaid inventory.
Thump! That's me getting off my soapbox now
"I ain't crazy and I've got papers to prove it"
Gasoline may not be stockpiled, but the oil that makes the gasoline is. That's what we call oil reserves.
And no, it doesn't matter if you buy gas tomorrow instead of today. The point is, the same quantity of gas is being purchased during the month. A 24 hour delay won't matter to anyone.
Figuring an X million dollar loss to the oil companies only works if that gas is NEVER purchased. The fact is their X million loss today becomes an X million surplus tomorrow. Whoop de doo. They break even.
--Anthony
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Figured I'd chuck this in
With the current rate of exchange, I reckon we pay around 7-8 Dollars a gallon here in the UK
I was in Scotland this past summer, and paid 76.9 pence per litre (have the place I bought gas/petrol on video). Convert pounds to dollars, litres to gallons (don't forget 5 quarts to the gallon in Britain!) and I figured I was paying just under $5.00 per American gallon.
One further note... I remember back in '76 I had a Jr High friend who's dad was a delivery driver. I remember hearing his dad complain about the high price of gas - almost a dollar per gallon. Now, 28 years later, we've finally hit twice that. Can you think of a price for anything else that has only doubled in the last 28 years?
MAL "You only gotta scare him."
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And no, it doesn't matter if you buy gas tomorrow instead of today. The point is, the same quantity of gas is being purchased during the month. A 24 hour delay won't matter to anyone.
Yup, I'm agreeing with you.
Everytime the price of gas goes up, that same chainletter gets started.
One chainletter suggested that people boycott just one brand at a time. Say, next Monday everyone boycotts Exxon. What does that do? Nothing. The consumer goes to Chevron and buys Chevron gas. The Chevron stations start to run low and Chevron buys it from Exxon at an inflated price and then passes the extra cost to the consumer. THe price of gas at Chevron goes up and the price of gas at Exxon goes down. Everyone flocks to Exxon and they make a ton of money. Go figure.
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Can you think of a price for anything else that has only doubled in the last 28 years?
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Exactly.
The price of homes is going up because of a shortage of lumber in some areas but people don't boycott home builders. The price of meat went up because cows are dying of mad cow disease but people aren't sending out chain letters about slaughter houses. The price of beer is going up (damn!). Everything is going up but the price of gas hasn't kept up. If the price of gas kept up with the other consumables, we would be paying $3-$4 gallon a long time ago.
There was a documentary made many years ago about oil. I think it was called the Power of Gold or something like that. It said that most people think it's a God given right to have cheap gas. The truth is that gasoline is a consumable product subject to the laws of supply and demand.
"I ain't crazy and I've got papers to prove it"
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Originally posted by DarkJester:
I was in Scotland this past summer, and paid 76.9 pence per litre (have the place I bought gas/petrol on video). Convert pounds to dollars, litres to gallons (don't forget 5 quarts to the gallon in Britain!) and I figured I was paying just under $5.00 per American gallon.
In my experience, the further north you get in our neck of the woods, the cheaper it gets
While I've been travelling, I've seen it ranging between 75p to 88p a litre. (Also depends on which type of gas you want, and what the rate of exchange is currently doing - Earlier this year, our place was giving $1.80 per £1 - though it's dropped down a little now)
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Agreed. A hoax that has been around since the inception of the 'Net - even back when it was not quite 'civilian'.
Only way is to force legislation to fund research and implimentation of alterntive energy sources.
and/or - Buy a hybrid or full electric vehicle - but they are waaaay expensive for the average Joe and Josie Sixpack.
The fuel cell car is coming in a few years from a few manufacturs
But again - it will be out of the pocket range of the Middle Class. And the upper class cares not about the price of gas. Burning money, so to speak, in the form of gas to show how rich they are. 
So the car will 'fail' in the marketplace. Sigh...
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DragonFlyDirector wrote:
Saturday, May 15, 2004 01:04
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and/or - Buy a hybrid or full electric vehicle - but they are waaaay expensive for the average Joe and Josie Sixpack.
My sister and brother-in-law just bought a Toyota Prius hybrid, but they got their hands on it purely by luck. Our local Toyota dealer decided to sell their demo Prius, because there is a waiting list of over 12 months for delivery if you order one, and they didn't see the point of telling their customers "Toyota makes this here car, but you can't buy one unless you want to wait a year for it". My sister just happened to be the first to call them after they decided to sell it.
And yes, you can buy a similarly-sized new Hyundai for about half the price of a Prius, or a new Ford Explorer for half again as much, but that's not my point. The demand is there - people are wanting and waiting for these hybrid cars (hence the 1-year waiting period).
My brother-in-law drives it to work every day (almost an hour each way) and the lowest mileage he's gotten is 48.7 mpg.
MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."
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Let me get this straight...
The USA invades and occupies the richest oil producing country on the planet... and oil prices go up?
Somehow it seems to me we are very, very, gullable. Hoaxes asside.
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No, it just points to the glaringly apparent need that we just need new and better conspiracy theories.
and actually, The US, Russia, Iran, Mexico, Norway, China, Venezuela, Canada, and the UK (none Gulf states) all produce more barrels per day than Iraq.
The US alone produces 3 times more than Iraq...
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Originally posted by Ghoulman:
Let me get this straight...
The USA invades and occupies the richest oil producing country on the planet... and oil prices go up?
Somehow it seems to me we are very, very, gullable. Hoaxes asside.
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