morecowbell

not to purchase gas tomorrow. We gotta do something about these prices, and if we all stick together, we can stick it to the man! I don't know how to post this on more than one forum but if someone does, pass it on!

Tanner

Localized impact has no affect when looked at the larger scale. The only way to impact the oil companies is for everybody to *reduce* their gas consumption and NOT to stop buying gas from one supplier for a day as you only delay your purchase.

Simple case of supply and demand.

morecowbell

not with that attitude!

KenA4QMS

Because their tank is empty?

Tanner

Boycotting for a single day or using less gas overally over the long run? The latter is much more reasonable and has a bigger impact but of course everybody needs to be doing it globally.

I think when the **** hits the roof where the supply of gas can no longer meet the rate of demand (actually I think we're already there and it started back in the 80s) everybody's going to make better decisions in using their cars.

morecowbell

maybe if we target the biggest supplier lets say ESSO and boycott them for a week, do you think their price would come down? Kinda start our own price war.I think we are going to see a lot of SUV's for sale soon and i'm looking like a genius for not getting a quattro. The 1.8T CVT when not driven hard (i know it's hard not to) is pretty good on gas, but the price of premium is just rediculous.

1.8TQ99.5

Tanner is bang-on.

It's a matter of simple economics. The price of oil is driven by market forces beyond the control of a one-day consumer boycott.

Sustained reduction in demand is what will ultimately affect the price, not a one-day knee-jerk.

Tanner

The real fix is for everybody to decrease demand for oil. I read somewhere that it started around 1981 where the supply of oil did not equal to the level of demand and the demand has been increasing steadily while the supply is remaining the same.

Hence the reason why oil companies are looking for other places for oil, such as oil sands, drilling up in alaska, etc.

We'll start to see the impact on this elsewhere - taxi/public transit fares, airplane tickets, and shipping costs in the whole supply chain.

Tanner

Funny reading one of the posts on this topic there saying that in the future that all wars would be around fuel.

And I was watching Mad Max last night :-)<ul><li><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/05/15/1446255.shtml?tid=134&amp;tid=188&amp;tid=192">Sla shdot</a></li></ul>

eh-4Q1.8

The writing has been on the wall for years. The future trend will be smaller cars and houses.