| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 12:50:31 PM | In April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices.
Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.
On May 15th 2007, all myspace members are to not go to a gas station in protest of
high gas prices. Gas is now well over $3.00 a gallon.
There are 73,000,000+ American members currently on the myspace network, and the
average car takes about 30 to 40 dollars to fill up.
If all myspace members ALONE did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take
$2,200,000,000.00 (that's BILLION) out of the oil companys pockets for just one day.
Regardless the website... w e all live in the same world, if not the same ol' states... We have a voice, and for one day, let your voice say :frustrated: THAT YOU REFUSE TO PAY BLACKMARKET PRICES FOR GAS..... 
If you agree (which I cant see why you wouldnt) repost this bulletin repost it with
Don't Pump Gas on May 15th or something likewise, SHOW YOUR SUPPORT OF THE CITEZINES  BEING UNITED  | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 12:59:58 PM | | I am in. Its a shame it won't be 0bserved by millions of selfish people. If 2 days a week everyone does not buy fuel, it would take a huge chunk out of them, and show we aren't going to take it anymore. But with everything, there will always be people that don't care and roll on in and fill up. It would tickle me to no end to see the pumps empty, even for a day. | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 1:05:25 PM | | If they lose money one day they'll jack up the price to make it back and then some. Doing it for a week might have some effect though. They'd have so much excess inventory they'd have to dump it cheap, ie at the price it is now. | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 1:08:28 PM | | The only problem with a gas strike for one day is that everyone participating will fill up sometime before or after, so they won't lose any money at all. They just won't get money on that day. The strike would have to last for a week to see some real damage. | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 1:13:25 PM | This message has been going around for a long time... I bet I have received it at least 20 times from different people in the last few years...
I will be more than happy to boycott buying gas on May 15th.
If only we really could get enough people to boycott, then it would make a huge difference in prices but one day of boycotting will not do it!
I know that my co-workers (18 of them) in my office are also going to boycott buying gas on May 15th.
Let's see how far we can reach out with this... Spread the word!
 To the gas companies | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 1:27:46 PM | Note to self: remember to buy gas on May 15.
I know it's a minority view, but I'm one who thinks high gas prices are a good thing.
We have a finite amount of oil.
We can either keep using it as fast and irresponsibly as we can until we're suddenly faced with a crisis we're unprepared for, or we can let gradually increasing prices help motivate us to use less and accelerate development of alternate transportation options.
Yes, it hurts a bit when gas goes up a dollar a gallon. We have to make adjustments. Hopefully some of those adjustments include driving less, using public transportation, making your next vehicle purchase something more fuel efficient than what you have now.
And those adjustments help buy us a little more time before the inevitable truly outrageous prices and shortages hit.
Eventually we'll move beyond fossil fuel use. The sooner consumers have to pay higher prices for the fossil fuels we use now, the sooner demand will drive more sustainable options to the marketplace.
So I'll make a point to buy gas May 15th, and continue to cheer every time I see the price at the pump go up. If we're lucky, a little pain now will head off a lot of pain later.
Dave | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 1:43:54 PM | Well, some of us are in a unique situation. I only buy gas every couple of weeks and I try not to drive unless it is needed. I am disabled so buying a different car is not a option for me at all. The one I have now does get a little over 30 mpg though. Even if they came out with a fancy hydro car I couldn't afford to get one for several years, then it would be a used one most likely. Most people don't even think about the people that are on fixed income for whatever reason. We have limited choices and none of them are good ones.
So far, looks like all but one is not buying gas on the 15th. I may not even be in town on the 15th. 
  
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 1:46:48 PM | Waterfall, pffttt..."hurt a bit"? riiiiiight from a man, like YOU, who owns hundreds of acres and has money to burn it might hurt "a bit" but it HURTS LIKE HELL to a gal like me, who has considered selling organs to cover next weeks gas allowance. | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 1:47:07 PM | Waterfall....
What you say makes sense. But have you looked at the economic effect it will have if gas goes to $4.00 or beyond? There are more people in this country that are just getting by on what they earn, then those that don't care about gas prices.
Everything that is delivered to the grocery store goes up in price. Consumer goods increase in price. Manufactured items go up. People cancel vacations. Resorts areas suffer. Everyone and everywhere suffers.
So please consider the outcome of what you said. BTW, be sure and count me in too. | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 1:51:39 PM | | I will get everyone I know in on the as boycott too hunn - let the ******* have oil running over their toilets! | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 2:02:52 PM | 33 BILLION in profit does not reflect anything to do with our "finite" oil resource. Not thinking any kind of boycott would do any good is wrong. Sure, we are going to have to buy gas, but for a day or 2 each week, the pumps will be empty and no candy, smokes, pop being sold would put a dent in the way they are bending us over at will. Its just easier for people to say..Oh..it won't do any good. I am old enough to remember the Gas wars in the 70s. Some were taking a loss to try to get people to buy gas at thier stations.Who won??..The consumers. If everyone participates..it works, plain and simple, and the result may be the guy down the street reducing his price to try to get people in there with other stations responding by trting to compete.
For everyone that thinks paying 3 bucks a gallon just has an effect on your daily travel, my Stepfather has a trucking firm, and we fill up a 10,000 gallon diesel tank at 3 bucks a gallon. We are paid a fuel surcharge by Farmland and most others. Do you think they are doing that out of the kindness of their heart?? Nope...every Ham, package of Bacon, or any other product reflects the charge in a higher price. And Exon still makes 33 billion. If there is an oil shortage, I can buy that. Prices will be high, but this is nothing but oil companies lining their pockets at our expense. And hiding behind the War, a hurricane, Shortages...etc... to justify raping us. I recently read where Oil companies were gonna spend like 20 million to explore alternate energy sources...really??? You made 33 billion in profit and over the next 10 years you are gonna spend 20 million?? Maybe you can help OJ find his wifes real killer while your at it.
Just keep up the status quo and keep fillin it up, thats just what they want you to do. | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 2:17:46 PM |
On May 15th 2007, all myspace members are to not go to a gas station in protest of high gas prices. Gas is now well over $3.00 a gallon.
Wow...I wish that our prices were that low. I wish we could protest.
Here on Vancouver Island Canada our gas prices are 1.185 per litre and there is 4 litres per your gallon...so all in all we pay $4.74 per gallon. I wish we could fill our tanks up at $30 or $40 dollars. | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 2:28:49 PM | | Yep, when there's no bread the peasants will burn the bakeries down. I don't hear anyone protesting the gov't parasite driving the price of gas up through taxation. (theft) | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 2:33:38 PM |
What you say makes sense. But have you looked at the economic effect it will have if gas goes to $4.00 or beyond?
I certainly have. I'm not at all insensitive to the hardship $4/gallon gas causes, not just directly at the pump, but in higher prices for everything we buy that has to be trucked to the stores. Now consider the hardship $10 or $20 per gallon gas would cause. Or not having gas at all except on certain days of the month. That's the future we're racing pell mell towards.
I knew I'd start a ruckus. Hopefully I've stimulated some thought as well.
btw, I'm no wealthy land baron. I don't have money to burn. My acreage and tiny house cost far less than the average price of a home anywhere these days. I may or may not crack $20k for income this year. Most of the important work I'm doing right now doesn't have a paycheck attached to it. It hurts my wallet everytime I fill up too, although having bought a hybrid back when I was making more money takes some of the sting out.
But rather than compare personal circumstances, know that I know that many people are directly impacted whenever the price of gas goes up. My point is that however much you think this hurts, it'll hurt a lot more if we're faced with a sudden oil shortage crisis, and the higher gas prices are, the less we collectively use, shrinking the odds of that crisis hitting us before we've transitioned to better ways to move us about.
All the major oilfields have been found. Many are well past peak production. Our consumption continues to rise. Shale and tar sand oil are very energy intensive to extract, and they too have quantity limits. We need to move beyond tapping the planet's savings account like out of control trust fund kids and start living on the planet's interest, not its principal. And we will. One way or the other.
From an energy perspective, the next couple of decades are going to bring a lot of changes. Some of them will hurt. I'm hopeful that ultimately we'll all be better off. I just hope to minimize the pain between now and then.
Dave | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 2:34:14 PM | | dorkfully, Gas companies make millions EVERY day. Chances are, May 15th is a day as well....Im pretty sure. | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 3:00:57 PM |
All the major oilfields have been found. Many are well past peak production. Our consumption continues to rise
Yeah...we all get that. That has nothing to do with posting record profits. In my area, we have 2 ethonol plants under construction and one operating. And a bio diesel plant under construction. All viable renewable resources. The Oil companies don't want to move to other ways of powering our cars, then they can't piss and moan about no oil left while they are making billions. We have wasted Bilions on space travel to Mars and pretty much nothing on solving our energy crisis (the same energy "crisis" we had in the 70s) 30 years of hearing about how our supplies are drying up and still we get raped. The oil companies have to be sitting around the board room chuckling about what next "crisis" can boost their already obscene and probably illegal profits. | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 4:07:11 PM | I won't buy gas, but I never do, I did the ultimate gas protest.
I gave up my car voluntarily, and moved close to work. The money savings are awesome! | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 4:44:11 PM | I would think it better if we all picked a certain oil company and boycott it. if everyone stopped/avoided buying gas from say mobil/exxon, -they would have to cut their prices to move their stagnant product -once they start cutting prices -the other oil companies would follow to keep moving their product. | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 4:48:06 PM | I don't have the option of public transportation as it is 40 miles each way between work and home..
We are just being raped by big oil.
First there was a refinery capability problem.
Second there was the China consumption story.
Third was Katrina and Rita ( I am so sick of those ladies being blamed for everything).
Fourth it was the weather and people hitting the roads.
I find it strange that many more people decided to travel than the previous year when gas was at a affordable price......
What I couldn't understand was why was everyone accepting these lies.
If there was a problem with refineries producing enough gas, and the supply was low, how come anyone could pull up to any gas pump anywhere in the country and fill up to your wallets content?
Seems they would have had enough sense to create gas lines like they did in the early 70's.
Then we see record profits,,,,in the billions
Saw today where Chevron reported an 18% increase in profits for the first quarter of this year.....
I wonder if the Pres and cronies being oil people have any thing to do with this as in not upsetting their rich buddies?
Like another post said, one day won't work as people will make sure they buy gas the day before,,,However,,,If everyone would pick Exxon/Mobile to be boycotted for a month, Chevron the next month, Shell etc,,that would get their attention.
But, don't stop going into the store to by cigs, drinks, and snacks as those are pretty much independent stores and really don't set the prices of the gas, so no need for them to get hurt, just big oil.. | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 5:20:35 PM | The solution that really makes sense out of all of these posts is the one from 85032Luck.
He is absolutely right when he stated that boycotting one company each and every single day starting right now. Not just one company on one certain day.
Pick a Major company like the one he already mentioned and just avoid getting your gas there. There are so many to chose from but if you shut down one big company for months and months, that would force them to be more competitive and drive the prices down to a more reasonable price.
The solution seems to make sense and you can do it not just for a single day....you can do it forever and it will really put a choke hold on them. Then maybe they can feel how the consumers feel......with our hands tied. | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 5:47:58 PM | Yes, count me in!
We need to unit and send a message! It doesn't matter that you filled up the day before or whether or not the oil companies profit goes up or down, we just need to send a message and put the power in our hands for one day.
This is something we must consider every day when we buy any thing and every thing. Is this product produced fairly and environmentally? Is this the best choice? Does paying more for things like chocolate or coffee send a message?
For me it's not the price of gas, i wish it were higher so more people would think about their actions... for me it's a protest about the way they manipulate the production and the human rights and environmental issues that get trampled when there is an oil field in the way.
Wage peace, take away their power, and don’t buy their stuff!!! | |
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| There is a GAS STRIKE ON MAY 15
Posted: 4/28/2007 5:57:04 PM | ""I would think it better if we all picked a certain oil company and boycott it. if everyone stopped/avoided buying gas from say mobil/exxon, -they would have to cut their prices to move their stagnant product -once they start cutting prices -the other oil companies would follow to keep moving their product.""
This poster has it nailed,but lets go a step further and boycott them one at a time each quarter,since these guys look at things one quarter at a time.
Jan,Feb,March boycott Exxon-Mobile
April,May,June boycott Conoco-Phillips
July,Aug,Sept boycott Chevron
Oct,Nov,Dec boycott Texaco-Shell
What do you think shareholders will do to share prices after this little plan is instigated?
Pack
PS,I forgot to add,lets then short their damm stocks..... | |
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