To all the haters!

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Lets see if we can really make an affect.

I got this off of myspace and am not gonna bother changing the words

Dont Pump Gas on May 15th!
On May 15th all myspace members are to not go to the gas station in protest high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places. There are 72,110,073 members currently on the network, and the average car takes about 30 to 60 dollars to fill up. If all myspace members did not go to the pump on the 15th it would take $2,163,302,190.00 out of the oil companys 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 oil industry for at least one day.

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

this has been tried so many times and it never works.2 reasons1-lack of will among the gas consuming sheep of the world2-math! everyone still needs that same gas so they buy it before or after the bycott date. If the oil companies do even register a loss, it averages out to nothing within 72hrs

and reason 2 is really not math as much as it is fftime.for you to effect it you would have to pull it off the last reporting day of a quarter. they dont give a shit about days, they care about profits over a quarter. if you skip a day hell skip a week, it matters notf, unless everyone skips the same wek and its at the end of a quarter.besides that it would have to continue to be done every quarter to have any real impact. the oil companys, they are your new gods, they have all the power.

Oh I know.. but everyone continues to bitch about it.

Well, the person who wrote that failed to notice that not all of the 70 million members of MySpace are from the US/Canada.
And you guys are complaining about paying $3.00 per Gallon? In Ireland we pay an average of $5.33US for 1 US Gallon. And we have one of the lowest prices in Europe. Consider yourself lucky people, it could be a lot worse!!

its getting worse, the current prices are not at a standstill forever more.

Prices are rising here every few weeks. Its not getting better anywhere!

None of these mass organised boycotts will ever work. But I did get a better idea in an email the other day.Everyone just boycotts the largest petrol company until they lower their prices by x-amount of cents. Once they lower it by this ammount everyone switches back to them. Following that the other companies are also forced to lower their prices. You then repeat the process with different companies.Of course in practice it won't work. But it's a nice idea.

it just jumper 7 cents in 1 day here....it continues to rise 3-5 cents a day.....It does not help that in California the refineries have manufacture a gasoline with different additives to meet the requirements for summer gas....

Yeah, that kind of thing would not work. One of the reasons being that the 'smaller' companies buy some if not all of thier oil from larger companies (the ones the email talks about boycotting). So the larger company would just charge them more for oil thus making the smaller company raise thier prices. We get screwed either way.Does anyone know what exactly is the reason gas is so high anyway? I mean, what is the reason the big wigs are giving us?

Bush canceled that, no summer gas, no restrictions this year. they can make all the pollutants they want.

It's high because the price of crude oil is high. The price of crude oil is high because supply from Iraq is very limited because the insurgents keep blowing up the pipelines, and the market is worried that soon there may be little or no supply from Iran because of sanctions or war.

In the longer term, things don't look good because China and India, which between them have 40% of the world's population, are rapidly becoming more developed and people are buying cars. At present the US, with about 6% of the world's population, consumes most of the world's oil production. If it has to be shared with Asia the supply will not meet demand, and even if the supply rate can be increased enough, most areas won't last very long.