Would you participate in a 'gas out'?

What does a non-driver have to do with this? Needless to say, yes. But I participate ALL THE TIME.

Sure, why not.

People will just buy more the day before and the day after. A better thing to do would be to target one particular company for boycott. I suggest Exxon-Mobil. They're profits are the most obscene yet they still haven't paid all of what they owed for the Exxon Vladez disaster. Refuse to get gas at Exxon stations, even if goign to one of their competitors is a little out of the way, then sends letters to both companies explaining your decision. Enough people do this, and it'll have much more of an impact than this "gas out" thing.

Count me in. Every person counts.

What's the point? I have to fill up twice a week. If I don't buy it on May 15th I sure will have to the day before or day after. Think people would have to boycott gas for a week or more to make any difference.

No.

I don't see how this makes any difference at all. It seems like a really stupid idea. Not filling up your tank for one day doesn't mean you stopped driving for that day. People will fill up their tank the day before or the day after. It's not going to cost the oil companies a cent.

Americans need to deal. We have it easy. The rest of the world pays vastly more for gas than we do. What we need to do is reduce our dependence on oil, not whine about the cost of it.

I don't have a problem with the price of gas. I think it should be expensive, to discourage driving. That's the only way anyone is ever going to put any kind of dent in any oil companies, domestic or foreign. If you really care about oil dependence and/or the environment, drive less! A one-day boycott will accomplish jack and crap in the long term.

Yes, although my yes doesn't count much. Every day is a 'gas out' day for me.

Other. These e-mails are such a pain in the arse. I am not one to blindly jump on some political bandwagon unless I knew it was really sending a message. We don't know who started them, and it's suspicious because they keep appearing but with different wording. That said...my answer is I am unsure. I get gas once every two weeks unless I am heading out of town. so if it is imperitive I get gas than I will. I can almost guarentee that thousands will get gas that day anyway because most people don't pay attention to that kind of bullying. I will, however, keep an eye on the gas station just for kicks. If I don't need gas that day, than I probably won't fill up.

so all those people would head to the pumps the next day and line the pockets of the oil companies with that 3 billion the next day or the day before?? what have we shown them, that we can wait a day for gas??
unless people are REALLY willing to park the car in protest for a while, it will prove nothing!!!!

No I never would and I could not afford not to drive even if gas hits $4.00 a gallon I will pay it no matter what

Well, I don't get gas very often, probably about once a month. So, it would be very easy for me to participate by doing nothing different than I do already. Also, when I fill up it costs about $20...

I do kind of like the idea, though I suspect we'd never get that many people to do it. Also, it wouldn't really cost them $3 billion, since people would just buy the gas they needed the day before or after the 15th. So, for the week, sales would be the same. Thus, it's an impotent protest. But, it still might send a message.

Though, it also seems absurd because it's not the oil company's fault that we use so much gasoline. It our fault. We choose to drive a lot. We choose cars with terrible gas mileage.

Also, not all of the oil comes from the middle east. snopes says: Saudi Arabia: 16.9% , Mexico: 15.1%, Canada: 15.0%, Venezuela: 14.4%, Iraq: 11.4%, Nigeria: 5.9.% (this was from March 2005).


Ah yes, I see that snopes has a specific page on "gas out" from the text of this survey, debunking it: http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp

Sure, if I thought it'd make a difference. Seeing as how people would just buy their gas on a different day, it wouldn't work. I've heard people talk about people not buying from a certain chain for a long period of time. I think this would be more likely to work....but I seriously doubt enough people would do it.

It would be much better to just use less gas in general. Let's all stop going to work, that oughta get 'em.

I don't have a vehicle to put gas into.. but as it's a special gas out day I'll be round the petrol station with a bucket....

No, thats retarded. If you don't pump gas on May 15, or any other specific date, you will just pump more gas the following few days. Hey, I got a better idea, how about use LESS gas. Thats the reason why gas prices are so high in the first place, because we keep using so much of it. It simple supply and demand.



"Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight."

Oh right, I believe that one. Even if that did happen, how much did the prices spike the next few days following that?

"People will just buy more the day before and the day after. A better thing to do would be to target one particular company for boycott. I suggest Exxon-Mobil. They're profits are the most obscene yet they still haven't paid all of what they owed for the Exxon Vladez disaster."

Unfortunately that wouldn't work either. That would just mean the competitors will run out sooner and/or charge more. So Exxon-Mobil will sell off their unused gas off (probabbly for a fraction of their original cost) to the competitors to stave off their shortage. A better solution would be to just use less gas.

I don't drive so this does not apply. But I approve of it.

No way! Screw that if the government doesn't want me to use gas then let them come up with an alternative.

While I won't be participating in this rather misguided "boycott", I won't be purchasing gasoline on May 15th either.

This is really a pointless exercise. Changing the day in which one purchases their fuel, has no effect on the oil companies. Notice how they had to go back more than ten years to find an example where there appeared to be an effect? The two things were not related. That should be obvious. "Overnight" isn't even long enough for the information to get to the right people.

This is like trying to hurt the dairy industry by not buying cheese on Thursdays.

It's a nice idea, but surely it would just end up that twice as many people needed to fuel up on the 16th of May?

No, its kind of silly really............ Your are gonna need Gas in the end *shrugs* it just delays the inevitable, you just buy more the following day.......... sounds like a hoax/stupid chain letter

No, for three reasons:

1) I am not American
2) I don't drive
3) We call it petrol, so a "gas out" sounds like a mass farting event to me...

Lets pump gas out of the nature preserves that we have,in order to increase production and reserves,in order to lower costs.We will all pump gas May 16th anyway.

> Lets pump gas out of the nature preserves that
> we have,

Got any worse ideas?

Nope.

I work at home, so I don't use much gas anyway.

The higher the petrol price, the less people will use their car needlessly, the better the public transport system gets and the less the environment has to pay. All repercussions seem beneficent.