Don't Buy Gas on May 15

My Queen filled the van with gas the day before yesterday. She paid $3.15 per gallon, $60 to fill the tank. Yesterday we drove by the same gas station and the price was $3.30 per gallon. The price of gas has gotten to the point where you have to either take out a second mortgage, or car pool to the grocery store.

Somebody came up with the bright idea to boycott the gas stations on May 15. This is not the first boycott (April 1997), but the last one just didn't get much publicity. The last time, the price of gasoline dropped 30 cents. This time, thanks to the internet, people are trying to get the word out.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). If everyone who could, refused to pump gas on one day, maybe the record profit making oil companies will finally wake up and stop hiking the price 15 cents per day. If we could show them via mass transport, car pooling, and maximizing trips (combining trips to the grocery, hardware, school, or work), I am sure the oil companies will notice.
After all, my fill up was $60. Add that to your purchase, and your friends purchase, and the other 70 million Americans online or 1 billion people globally, and that counts for a LOT of money out of the pockets of oil producers.
Did you know...
In the third quarter of 2006, Exxon Mobil had a gross profit of $35 billion. In the fourth quarter, the gross profit was $63 billion.

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Anonymous said…
This won't work. from snopes.com

Quote:
The "gas-out" scheme does not call upon people to use less gasoline, but simply to shift their date of purchase and buy gas a day earlier or later than they usually would. The very same amount of gas is sold either way, so oil companies don't lose any money
1:20 PM
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