It seems everyday that I receive a Don’t Pump Gas Email so the major Gasoline Companies can feel a hit, but its a short run experiment. It’s a 1 day event that will NOT have an impact on major companies, if anything it will hurt the little mom and pop gas stops. These gas stops that have the HUGE food/Dunkin Donuts chain are the ones that might get hit if you don’t stop there, most of them can’t even change your oil let alone your tire. I feel that if we are going to plan a massive “attack” against the BIG oil companies the best way is to go out, get a hybrid or electric vehicle, and stop paying them every time you fill up your car. Better yet, write to your congress man, senator, and/or your governor and tell them to stop subsiding the oil companies. Yes, oil companies get money from the governments to find other places to drill for oil. I even posted about how much money oil companies are making. So if you want to take action, post this story to digg and lets get people out there selling their gasoline cars and replacing them with hybrids or full electrics.
Ted Frazier says 22nd May @ 3:08
You people are looking at this all wrong and quite frankly you looking at it just the way big oil wants you to look at it. We are never going to decrease demand for energy which is what drives the cost of oil. Most of the oil that is produced is not even used for gasoline and let’s imagine we did switch to electric cars - how would we produce the electricity? - by burning fuel.
But there is one factor that will REALLY have an impact on the price of gas and that is supply. If we simply increase the supply of refined oil the price of gasoline will drop. See, big oil (with the help of environmentalist wacos) have successfully limited the supply of refined oil ARTIFICIALLY. They have created the illusion that there is a short supply of oil so they can sell it at a higher price. Kinda like DeBoers and Diamonds(if you didn’t know diamonds are just about the most plentiful gem on the planet and should cost much less than rubies). The reality is there is an overwhelming abundance of oil and the oil we have burned thus far has not been proven to have any real impact on the environment(very little of the carbon emissions on this planet come from automobiles and most actually comes from nature itself). SO LET’S MAKE MORE AND START USING IT.
P.S. oil will be a renewable resource:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2004-01-22-kantor_x.htm
it didn’t take millions of years to make in the first place.