Let's boycott Gas Dealers

I don't think all will agree. Those whose houses are far away from their offices would basically turn down the idea. What we needed here is to junk the deregulation in petroleum. From the time the government let the private sector handle the petroleum without their intervention in prices, the oil prices hiked up.

Im assumeing you are a young person that lives fairly close to work and/or school. Nice idea. However some of us live very far from work and are up there in age so we have leg and/or foot pain. Personally i do not own a car i take city bus to and from work.

They have already tried that didnt work it would huirt them but alot of people just had to have gas. and most poeple here dont have bikes or work 20 miles away sort of far to ride bike

That would be a really good thing but people can't do that. We need a vehicle now to get around. We need the A.C or the heat. We don't like our co workers enough to carpool. And public transportation is becoming dangerous and has always been dirty. If we can find something resonable as an alternative boycotting woulod be a great idea.

Yes I think something has to be done about oil prices, for the first time I never saw it go this high, although I seldom use my car still I feel a concerted effort should be undertaken, one for all and all for one. I'm also glad that it's still school vacation here because the car is used most of the time to bring and fetch the children to school, means that I will be spending more when school opens this June if prices does not go down or continues to sky rocket.

Unfortunately, I don't think boycotting the gas crunch would work. Unless, everyone boycotted. People rely too much on transportation which requires little effort on their part. You figure out how we all can survive 1-2 days without transportation then maybe we could get some viable participants. Best Wishes!

I think that there are some holidays that doesn't make a lot of people travel that much. I think, in some way, that's a little like boycotting those Gas dealers that you have mentioned. However, if you would apply that to any other day, I believe that it would be difficult for most people, especially those who live far away from the homes and have to use vehicles to get to their offices or work. So if they do use bicycles, I think not only would they be late for work, they would also want to take a shower when they arrive. One possible way to lessen expenses would be to get fuel from not so known gas stations. They're practically the same fuel, just more affordable. If a lot of people would do that, maybe those major gas stations would have to lessen their prices as well. When that happens, I hope prices of things that we buy would also go down.

Well, I have over 500 miles to "commute" and I cannot do that by bicycle. That just would not work. I do take a fold-up bike in my car and use it now and then, but where I am staying now we have very steep hills, so I cannot ride the bike from my house to places that I need to go. Nice idea, but not practical for me.

I don't think that will work. There is high demand for oil but the supply is dwindling. Not to mention the war that's going on in Middle East and Africa where we get our supply of oil. Do you really think people would risk their lives for something they would sell cheap? Oil isn't farmed. You don't plant it and harvest it, that's why it is expensive. And it is imported. If the price before importing is high, then after importing it will only get higher. They don't have a choice. If we show to Gas dealers that we don't need gas, then maybe they'll just give it up altogether and declare themselves bankrupt. Where then can we get gas? Do you really think we can survive without it? Maybe in the future, but right now I don't think so.

haha =D Be it gas or petrol, prices are going up!! lol =D So long one is driving, they are bound to be affected by the rising cost for them all. It's even worse for public transports because those companies and government will turn pass on the rising cost to us, communters, by increasing the fares.. lol =D Airlines are not spared either, and they are the worst of all.. haha

Prices are set by supply and demand. Until those fundamentals change, the price will not change. If you got a significant number of people to stop using oil, then prices would fall. However, the price would pop right back to where it is once demand resumed.

Hey it might worth a try. It seem that these gas prices is heading for the roof.

You are facing multinational companies that can not be defeated. And it is like moving backward from the fast paced highly tech, modernized situation that is surely will not follow. However we can do altogether the strike but always the poor class are the one being affected, they need to work most especially the drivers doing the hand to mouth way of living. Our move is not surprising to the business of these companies for the effect is negligible to the flow of their businesses.

I live in California. We do not have a good public transportation system so a car is a necessity for most people. Still I think your suggestion is a good one and maybe one week-end day would work. It just might be a sacrifice worth making. There really is no reason for gas to be as high as it is..

recently we did just that. For one day we did not buy gas and usually when we do that the gas price drops about 20 to 30 cents a gallon over night. But I don't guess the word got out to enough people because not enough people did it. I saw way too many people getting gas that day when I was out. I think we should do it again but the word needs to get out to enough people. It has to hit hard enough that they know the people are not buying the gas. I will do it. The only thing is many people will go fill up the day before the "shut out" and that defeats the purpose. So we need to pick a day and everyone "shut out" the gas pump and not get gas that day. It would really hurt if we could do it for more than one day wouldn't it?

I would like to see everyone stop filling their cars for a day or two so that the oil companies realize we mean business when we say enough is enough. It is ridiculous that they are ripping us off everytime we get gas and yet we allow it continually. We all could use the exercise to take another form of travel to work. It is time we take a stand= maybe a boycott would help!!

hi syoti even if car users just took the bus to work and did not fillu; for say a week and all car users would boycott the gas stations I think it would make a huge dent in the sale of gas. this would really tend to cause them to put the price of gas per gallon down to where it should be for a big change. I think it would take at least a week.

hi syoti, i wish everyone could do that. we could start walking from now on, or ride carabaos on the street, and horses. we use to have them before. but it is the firmness to do that is i guess lacking. i guess it is very impossible now unless we get to invent something to replace gas. ann

Hi syoti20, The price that we are having to pay here in the united kingdom is seriously disgraceful. If people in other countries feel that they are hard done by with the cost of gas then they would be in debt if they lived here. In the uk we have increased our prices so much, we must be the most expensive country for gas, it is stupid how much we are having to pay. This has made a big difference in how often i use my car now. I do try to walk to as many places as possible, i also sometimes use my bicycle, if things don't get better here i can see their being a riot as the prices are so very very steep. In all honesty though i feel that it is our government who want to make more money and so they take a huge percentage, this means that they gain more money yet we never really see the benefits of any of it, it certainly isn't put to good use, probably not even spent in our own country. Here we have way too many greedy people, i guess we should boycott gas and show that we will not tolerate these ridicuolus prices, although our country is in a mess mainly due to the fact that we give benefit money to illegal immigrants that come here and scrounge off us, this causes more problems and more things rise in costs as the government pay the benefit money, typical of our country, we are way too soft and need to grow a pair.

I think that is definitely a great idea to boycott the gas stations. The rates they are charging us is way too high for the average person. If this is successful, we could definitely be really great for us. Unfortunately, some people have jobs that are close to an hour drive if not more. Since they do need their cars, it is going to be very hard to pull off successfully. There's nothing stopping me from hoping, however.