Why don't we stay home and not buy gas for two days??
Question: Who can afford gas right now?
Answers: The infrastructure of American metropolitian areas makes it almost impossible to get along without a car. I live in a suburb of Pittsburgh. There's no way to get to the grocery store without a car: none is within walking distance, it's too hilly to ride bike, and public transportation only goes downtown, not to the grocery stores. (There's no grocery store downtown, btw.) Then there's work. We can't get to work using public transportation unless we work downtown. We don't. It's impossible for children to participate in extracurricular activities without an automobile to drive them around. Our schools aren't within walking distance. The sports fields are all over the township---miles and miles away. We just can't get around without a car here. The best we can do is plan our car trips and try to do as many things in one trip as possible.
Not me. But I can afford the public transit.
b/c we also can't afford to stay home.
but it would be neat if everyone could all boycott gas somehow w/o messing up their job/family responsibilities b/c prices are climbing higher and higher.
This is better than a boycott, we should all buy one brand of gas and only buy once a week. Keep using the same brand, and their prices would lower, due to the amount they are selling. To stay competitive, the other brands would have to lower their prices.
wouldn't hurt 'em at all. stop for 6mo or a year......
then you're doing something.
Better solution call your representative. We need to put pressure on Washington to take serious things that are effecting our lives and the economy. Anything less then that is spitting in the wind.
i can still afford it but i don't want to pay it. just holding off for 2 days is not enough because i only get gas about once a week so if even half the population dose that there will be not effect at the pumps people would have to hold off for at least a month to get the oil company's to start to pay attention
Because it doesn't matter.
Crude oil is traded on an Exchange. Because it is traded on an Exchange it is treated like a stock. The price goes up when every one wants to buy it and down when every one sells it. Unfortunately everyone is buying crude oil because of the fear that has been instilled upon us by the media, which in turn drives the price up.
If we all stayed home for 2 days, gas would go up again because the oil companies would need to recoup their losses. And since on that 3rd day we would need to drive and or refuel, we would get slammed at the pump then.
Answers: The infrastructure of American metropolitian areas makes it almost impossible to get along without a car. I live in a suburb of Pittsburgh. There's no way to get to the grocery store without a car: none is within walking distance, it's too hilly to ride bike, and public transportation only goes downtown, not to the grocery stores. (There's no grocery store downtown, btw.) Then there's work. We can't get to work using public transportation unless we work downtown. We don't. It's impossible for children to participate in extracurricular activities without an automobile to drive them around. Our schools aren't within walking distance. The sports fields are all over the township---miles and miles away. We just can't get around without a car here. The best we can do is plan our car trips and try to do as many things in one trip as possible.
Not me. But I can afford the public transit.
b/c we also can't afford to stay home.
but it would be neat if everyone could all boycott gas somehow w/o messing up their job/family responsibilities b/c prices are climbing higher and higher.
This is better than a boycott, we should all buy one brand of gas and only buy once a week. Keep using the same brand, and their prices would lower, due to the amount they are selling. To stay competitive, the other brands would have to lower their prices.
wouldn't hurt 'em at all. stop for 6mo or a year......
then you're doing something.
Better solution call your representative. We need to put pressure on Washington to take serious things that are effecting our lives and the economy. Anything less then that is spitting in the wind.
i can still afford it but i don't want to pay it. just holding off for 2 days is not enough because i only get gas about once a week so if even half the population dose that there will be not effect at the pumps people would have to hold off for at least a month to get the oil company's to start to pay attention
Because it doesn't matter.
Crude oil is traded on an Exchange. Because it is traded on an Exchange it is treated like a stock. The price goes up when every one wants to buy it and down when every one sells it. Unfortunately everyone is buying crude oil because of the fear that has been instilled upon us by the media, which in turn drives the price up.
If we all stayed home for 2 days, gas would go up again because the oil companies would need to recoup their losses. And since on that 3rd day we would need to drive and or refuel, we would get slammed at the pump then.
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