gas prices

[Rodeheaver's]

I think we need to have a day or 2 where everyone doesnt buy gas for the whole day, to try and send a little message to the companys that we can hurt them to, Exxon profited 11billion dollars in their last quarter, that is the most they ever made in 1 quarter of a year....... any thoughts..

[fast4ord]

Totally agree

[J-rod]

never ever going to work.....people will buy gas before or after in a spike for sales so it will always even out.



its the american way

[Rodeheaver's]

never ever going to work.....people will buy gas before or after in a spike for sales so it will always even out.



its the american way

TRUE, TRUE, but i can't keep sitting here in my chair thinking about it and do nothing, i think we should at least try something instead of just moaning about the price all the time...

[2001GTTT]

i guess we just gotta go with it, nothing we can do really, government could, but would you stop it if you were getting kickbacks?

[no1fordgirl]

That sucks they profited so much.

I agree. People buy it regardless of price because they need to. Sucks!

[Twin01cobra]

Wish I could but the lose for me from staying home far out weighs the gains. I have a better suggestion but not going to talk about it on the internet.

[no1fordgirl]

A very wise, and funny man once told me...

If gas would go back down to a dollar a gallon, the economy would pick up. Win win for everyone!

Now... how to make the right people understand this?

[gmkillr]

What people can do is drive the most fuel effecient car that you can afford, and car pool to save gas overall. Not buying gas for a day will do nothing!
Lets say that Exxon make's $100 million profit a day, let's say a ton of people decide not to buy gas on tuesday, so on tuesday they only make $70 million profit, ok now come's wed. now there going to make $130+ million dollars the next day and not to mention the $500 trillion they got sitting in the bank. Your not going to hurt them in any way...

[Rodeheaver's]

think about this 3 months = 11 billion dollars, roughly 90 days in 3 months, thats aprox 120million dollars a day!!! a day!!! and thats just profit.... imagine if they profit 1.00$ per gallon of gas, and gas is about 3$ per gallon, that is 360million of gross income a day!!!

[gmkillr]

There's 3 months in a quarter.

3+3+3+3=12months

[Rodeheaver's]

What people can do is drive the most fuel effecient car that you can afford, and car pool to save gas overall. Not buying gas for a day will do nothing!
Lets say that Exxon make's $100 million profit a day, let's say a ton of people decide not to buy gas on tuesday, so on tuesday they only make $70 million profit, ok now come's wed. now there going to make $130+ million dollars the next day and not to mention the $500 trillion they got sitting in the bank. Your not going to hurt them in any way...

you see what i mean... talk talk talk, talking does nothing, if everyone you know started car pulling and riding the buses, we could go for weeks without buying gas, i had a honda that got 40mpg... I have been crunching numbers like a mad man to see if there would be an impact, and yes i do believe that somthing like this would send a message... It certrainly is better than doing nothing...

[2001GTTT]

why doesnt someone just blow up exxon headquarters? fast and effective. lol

[speedracer]

I think we need to have a day or 2 where everyone doesnt buy gas for the whole day, to try and send a little message to the companys that we can hurt them to, Exxon profited 11billion dollars in their last quarter, that is the most they ever made in 1 quarter of a year....... any thoughts..

Drill for our own oil... (stick some dirty underwear in the mouths of the tree huggers) the price will come down. I would rather americans were making the profit than the the people that want to kill us in the middle east.

[Silverhatch]

Unless there is a car that runs on something other than diesel/gas you can't get around it. You HAVE to pay the price they want. With an economical car you'll cut some costs, but you're still buyin' it from them. Even if the would drop prices why should they? The monstroscity SUVs getting shit gas milage fly off the lots, so apparently a large part of the country doesn't care about the price. Take a look at some of the cars purchased on here lately.......

[speedracer]

why doesnt someone just blow up exxon headquarters? fast and effective. lol

Everyone is looking past who is making the real money... it aint exxon.

[gmkillr]

why doesnt someone just blow up exxon headquarters? fast and effective. lol

Actually Exxon only makes 30% of its sales in the U.S.

[Rodeheaver's]

There's 3 months in a quarter.

3+3+3+3=12months

i know

[2001GTTT]

hey you gotta start somewhere.

[gmkillr]

Everyone is looking past who is making the real money... it aint exxon.

U.S. Gov. They keep raising taxes on them, so they keep raising prices on us.