ATV Florida Forum

Don't pump gas on May 15th

 

In April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices.
Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.

On May 15th 2007, all  are asked to not go to a gas station in protest of
high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places.

average car takes about 20 to 30 dollars to fill up.

If all did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take
$2,200,000,000.00 (that's BILLION) out of the oil companies pockets for just one day,
so please do not go to the gas station on May 15th and lets try to put a dent in the
Middle Eastern oil industry for at least one day.

If you agree (which I cant see why you wouldn't) repost this bulletin repost it with
Don't pump gas on May 15th

Man, I was riding that day.

i did it in 97  i'll do it again !!! 8)

Of course i will not buy gas on the 15th of May

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp

This doesn't work.  If there is a dent to be made it will in buying  hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles.  If everyone that needs gas on the 15th doesn't go until the 16th the profits just double that day.  Until we lessen our need for oil/gas-we at their mercy on prices!! 

I love the chance to "STICK IT TO THE MAN!!!"   No gas for me on the 15th,  this is spreading on myspace.com also.

I do not agree at being at their mercy on prices not when they continue to make record profits. A gas out is the first step this did work once and should again for a while. I believe the best thing to do is for all to ban together for a day and not go to work at all except for the emergency services and hospitals. This would show the legslitative folks in Washington we are tired of the fat cats getting richer off us. Just think if everybody stayed home from work for one day all on the same day it would be a voice heard around the world.

apkkfx400 is right ,it will not affect nothing the only thing it might affect is dispatching. people will either buy there gas the day before or the day after.i have worked for a oil co. going on 27 years and i have seen it all. we are selling as much gas this year as we did last year when it was $2.25 a gallon. florida does not have any mass transit so bottom line you pay the price or walk. i am no way defending the big oil i pay for my gas like everyone else , its just the way it is

I think it is a waste of time also. Pay me now or pay me later.............

   I agree something needs to be done, but I don't think this will do it.How will the oil co. know what we're doing unless we all come together somewhere and let them know what's going on.They have the Chess pieces and know we'll have to buy gas sooner or later.
   Maybe...we should do a Rally!!

don't do it...it only hurts the truckers and dispatch.  If you remember, after the gas out day last time, they raised prices a few days afterwards so they stuck it to you, not the other way around.  If you want to do it right, boycott a major oil company and stop going there period, not for just a day.

   You should organize protest at several gas stations with signs showing why your boycotting.You may even get media coverage if you have a big enough group.

The only way you will put a hurting on a gas company is by riding a bicycle or walking to work for a week. Otherwise it doesn't matter if we all stopped buying gas on Monday's, the 15th or the third Wednesday of the month because we don't all buy gas daily. I buy diesel once a week usually on Wednesday or Thursday so not going on the 15th is doing what I normally do and no one will notice.

Bill

it is also a great way to hurt your local store owners that have no way of controlling gas prices.

This won't work, The only way to get into their pockets is by carpooling, walking, bicycle riding or some other form that will keep you from using gas. And then when they decide that they are not making enough profit, they will just increase the price of what you do use and increase their profit margin. No way to kill them when one has to drive 20 or more miles to work and back.

its a win lose situation if nobody buys gas on the 15th they will probably buy it on the 14th or 16th.on the other hand if nobody pumped gas for a week.that would probably help.myself I only buy gas every other week unless I'm goin ridin.

That is true. EVERYONE should be screaming about the state and federal taxes. My local Mobil currently at $3.04 for 87 has posted a great break down right at the register.
I will get a copy and post it, they have plenty of room to cut us a break.

Unfortunately, they are testing the waters to see just how much we will tolerate, and it doesn't seem to bother anyone yet, because they are still buying the same amounts as when it was at $2.00 a gallon not so long ago.

All truckers should park there rigs all at the same time one day all over the country in the middle of the highways.. Not move until someting is done about fuel prices..
Truckers did this before and they should get together and do it again!

Now that is the best idea I have heard yet! THAT would get some serious attention and relief quick.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp

for what it is worth, here is the break down of taxes for gas
per gallon:

.132 cents-Pinellas County Tax (other counties are different)
.001 cents-Fed. Exc. Lust Gov't Tax (not sure what that is)
.00125 cents-Florida Inspection Fee
.153 cents Florida Motor Fuel Tax
.0020714 cents Florida Pollution Tax
.0012 cents Federal Env. Rec Fee (whatever that is)

PS As of April 23, my cost for gas was $2.15 plus tax...

I have Gas today..... ???

What are they inspecting? Not the jalopies on the road spewing smoke, that is for sure.
They have federal and local listed, and it looks different than yours.

I just typed it as it appears on my gas bill from the Port of Tampa

I would be willing to bet the Fl Inspection fee is to make sure you get a gallon of gas, no more or less when you pay for it.  Look for the little sticker on the pump from Charles Bronson,Dept. of Ag.

I thought that sticker meant if you tamper with the pump, you have a Death Wish. :)




Good call, I'd bet you are right.

Someone has to pay the inspectors salary...why not us?

SO NEARLY .30 CENTS per gallon is taxes for the mathmatically challenged

I don't see how the independent truckers can even make a halfway decent living with the price of fuel.man they gotta be hurtin

Hey, It's not only the truckers.  How about us contractors that have clients within a three or four county radius.  I fill my truck 3 times a week just to get to work.  That's $240.00 a week at $3.00 a gal.    With the competitive market around me, I can't really pass that cost on, I just take it directly in the shorts.   All you whining that the gas out won't work bla bla bla.  NO!, it won't make a big dif because people need gas, but IT WILL still be sending the message that the common public is hurting!!!  Not that the CEO'S care. 

DO YOU ALL REALIZE that if Myspace.com was a nation.  With all the members present, it would be the 11th largest nation in the world.  It is time that the common everyday Americans log on and unite.   A gas out just one day every week with everyone reducing their driving just outa spite, would eventually cost the big oil a lot at the end of a quarter.  If we all just stood up and gassed out one day a week for two months and held to it as citizens, things would change.  But instead, we have these people that believe nothing will change the course of what other people and businesses are going to DO TO THEM.   DUDE!, the sixties was not that far back,   what the heck happened to public outcries of injustice????????????????????   
Yes America is large and more complicated than 40 years ago, however if the citizens start believing that thier opinions no longer count then you are sort of saying you no longer believe you are free and the He(( with that kind of thinking!!!

Im going to start running the rhino to work.The money I save for fuel will be cheaper than the tickets 8)

I received this e-mail from somebody the other day. 8)

 I have no problem with this request!
Hell, I haven't bought Gas from MOBIL OR EXXON for  the last few years
They always seem to be a little higher and then----- low and behold they tell the world how much profits they are making each quarter and of course don't forget what the thieves on top are getting for BONUSES and pays!!
Do it -----maybe it might have some impact!!!
 


 

 

GAS WAR - an idea that WILL work

This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton.  It 's worth your consideration.

Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea.

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.

BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us! By now you' re probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap.  Me too! It is currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..... not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here's the idea:

For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out at this point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people.

I a m sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =3D 300)
 

...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =3D 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am, so trust me on this one.

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!

I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you?

Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass th is message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

 

 

 

check this out

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

So are you willing to park all of your trucks for one day each week and still pay your workers for not coming in. Lets see how long that happens. And then lets see how much it would kill your back pockets to park those trucks.

My dad is real upset about the cost of fuel now, and the independent truckers are planing a major protest event.

if I knew that at least the majority of the American public was making the same sacrifice to finally get something done to teach big business that there really are rules,  you bet your Butt I would park em one extra day a week.  As far as workers, most workers only wanna work 4 days a week anyway. LOL  But seriously, yes I would indeed do it because it is that important to me to  feel free instead of a pet in a cage owned by Americas big business! ;)

Why would anyone read that when they can blabble on about being free and not being caged by american big business?  ::)

The government and the CEO's already knows we are hurting do you think they care? No. They know we need fuel and will pay to get it. None of us can afford to just stop driving and they know this. That is the only way to put a hurting on any of these companies and it isn't going to happen.

Bill

look out for falling prices.......


somewhere other than the fill-up stations!!  Looks like the National gas out day had the opposite effect.

not many people participated, guess thay all have plenty of money and don't mind paying. OH for the good ole days, bring back the sixtys so we can have a good protest.