ATTENTION!! call for gas boycott!!!

So how do you drive anywhere with no gas?
I don't think thats going to work either

 

I think that the idea is not to drive for a period of time. Take the bus or use another form of public transportation, ride a bike, walk, hitch a ride, etc...

 

Where I live I have no choice but to drive my car to go anywhere

 

Then SpaceTrippin, buy your gas the week before and allocate it only for necessary trips. It's all about sacrifice, but maybe you aren't willing to go that extra mile. How many pointless trips do you make, couldn't you cut back?

 

I could do that easy enough I guess. I drive a boat back and forth to work and it doesn't use alot

 

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I cannot understand why people are getting so pissed off. Its almost like it as come as a big surprize to some people that gas prices are going up up up.

There is a finate amount of oil, we have the middle east going to shit, and Iran, the worlds 3rd largest producer of oil rattling the sabre.

It is not some God given right to have cheap oil. The US generally as some of the lowest "gas" prices - compared to Western Europe and other developed countries.

You drive around in massive cars and SUVs that run at about 2 inches to the gallon and then expect to always have cheap oil.

Oil companies are having to spend more and more to meet the demand, and drill deeper and deeper at greater cost to themselves and the enviromnent, yes they make profits - but what else do you expect when a big corp as access to such a high value product will supplies becoming smaller and smaller. But even if they cut the amount of profit - the price of oil will continue to rise.

And no amount of stupid strikes is going to replenish the oil supplies.

 

Who's getting pissed off???
It sounds more like you are.

 

What boycott will do is point out to the oil corporations, that the consumer has some power to control the market as well. There are two sides to the equation, supply and demand.

 

How do you expect me to run my Hummer without gas?

 

I'm still not sure specifically what this boycott is designed to achieve?

 

the thing the gov wont tell you is that we dont need gas-ive seen cars powered by pure vegetable oil. one done by some dirt poor hippies on a commune, another done by a bunch of kids. if they can do it, why cant the gov? $$$$

 

Use Alcohol! Get a cooperative started, raise up the money for a still, and you can even get huge tax credit from the gov.

Here's a little paradigm shift for y'all

When that meteor collided with Earth, those huge creatures that had been the fittest and strongest, who could take what they wanted, and had grown used to having plenty, were unable to survive in a time of scarcity. Those creatures that had been marginalized and had to learn how to make do – those that had been hiding in holes in the ground in fear of the successful, dominant creatures above – now it became their turn.

When the oil ran out on Earth, those huge creaturs that had been the fittest and strongest, who could take what they wanted, and had grown used to having plenty, were unable to survive in a time of scarcity. Those creatures that had been marginalized and had to learn how to make do - those that had been living in gardens and forests in open opposition to the neglectful, dominant creatures - now it became their turn

 

Great post.