Fucking Boycott Gas!!! We Have To Make A Stand Now!

I kinda think that it's a possibility that people are using the hurricane as a reason to hike up those gas prices. Whether or not it has anything to do with the hurricane is anyone's guess. Either way, I'm paying about $3 and it's killing me, since I don't have a job. But then again, some people are paying much more than $3, so I can't really complain.

 

oh yeah.. by the way man i love the topic sentence of this thread.
i dunno it just made me crack up for a while.

but im with you...


FUCKING BOYCOTT GAS!!

 

My son got home today for a 2 week vacation....he has been in Iraq for last 6 months.
He says that gas cost .37 a gallon over there.

 

Yes, it is hard, if not completely impossible for many people to go without any gas. Especially for those who live in areas where there is little or no public transportation. That is the beauty behind the idea of just boycotting one group of gas stations like Exxon, Mobile, and Hess stations. Buy only from Sunoco and Gulf etc. That way you can buy as much gas as you need and still participate in the boycott. I also suggest not buying any gas at all on the weekends.

 

My step father owns 2 gas stations. Um don't stop buying gas so my family can eat.

 

Okay, first of all the high prices aren't due to a lack of oil, it's more like a lack of refining capacity. Y'see we change the oil into gasoline, but the places that did this were already overtaxed before the hurricane and alot of them got shut down due to flooding and power outage issues. Drilling for oil in Alaska is not going to help us, besides it taking years before you'd see any oil, we would still lack an adequate refining capacity.
This whole situation illuminates very clearly the problems of having and economy, hell even a whole life style, based on one product. It's a bad idea, just look at the planes indians after the buffalo were hunted to near extinction, or the Bangladeshis whenever the price of jute fell.
And there are easy forms of alternative energy out there, hell a 10,000 dollar solar panel can heat a house, provide electricity, and power a vehicle, but are we going to do that? No, because we're fuckin stupid.
Oh, and collander, or whatever your name is, you are using electricity that probably came from oil, on a machine built out of oil, after being brought to building by a vehicle that burns oil.

 

Well then start writing to the big oil companies and tell them to stop ripping us off. Write to congress at tell them to pass legislation capping gas prices. Tell them to pass legislation that will increase fuel efficiency standards. Above all tell them you want them to stand up to the oil companies and start development of alternative energy sources! We have the technology!

Eugene

You are right the high prices have nothing to do with lack of oil. However they have nothing to do with refining capacity either.

The big oil companies are making record profits in the billions of dollars. They could certainly provide cheaper gas if they wanted to. Exxon/Mobil alone made 800 BILLION in PROFITS in the last quarter alone!!!!

Anyway, as I keep saying lets send the oil companies a huge message. You can continue to buy gas, as much as you want in fact. Just don’t buy from Exxon, Mobil or Hess and instead buy from Gulf or Sunnoco. Keep it up until they provide gas at a reasonable price. We the consumers have the power we just have to use it.

 

Buy stock in oil companies, and enjoy the dividend.

 

spot on. oil is all pervasive. yet our governments make no provision for an orderly transfer of energy consumption from fossil fuels to, say, solar. i get the feeling they're waiting until there's not enough time left to avert a catastrophe and we'll be told you must have NUCLEAR, fait accompli.

 

I live downwind of the oldest Nuke reactor in the world, and lemme tell you that it's not as bad/scary as people make it out to be. Nuclear power if used correctly can generate INSANE amounts of energy for little money/little risk. Sure, every now and then the system will break down, but that's true with anythin in life, But the risk/benefit trade with nuclear energy is in my opinion worth it.

 

what about the waste?

 

shove a cork up your ass . you well save gas.

 

RE: what about the waste?

What about it?

RE: spot on. oil is all pervasive. yet our governments make no provision for an orderly transfer of energy consumption from fossil fuels to, say, solar.

It costs more in energy to produce a solar panel than you ever get from it.
That is not an option unless there's a quantum leap and I DO MEAN a quantum leap, in science.

 

other than dumping it all in africa, there's no clear plan to deal with its disposal that's what i mean and there are still a lot of issues around safety.

but unlike fossil fuels solar energy is not finite, free at source and doesn't spew out ghg. i haven't heard that its too costly be4, but i know it too has got disposal issues because the things are made of lead which is also hazardous. maybe what's required is a mixture of alternatives and conservation to forestall depletion.

 

Nuclear energy produces far less waste than most other forms of energy. And it is relatively inexpensive unlike wind or solar power.
As for disposing the waste, we could always dump it on countries we don't like, or put it somewhere where no one is going to go for 100,000,000 years.

 

Anyone know what France does with all its nuclear waste? They rely heavily on nuclear power. Just wondering.

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hey ugene, do you like that film???
are you a dreamer???

 

so they say. the main problem with waste tho' is disposing of it safely, and that's still an unresolved issue, despite what u say below...

the plan is to dump alot of it in africa. but africa's full of black ppl who are going to die of hunger and aids anyway, right?

 

You cant stand up to cops over marijuana you think they worry about your stinking gas.