Send a Message to Gasoline Retailers This Holiday Weekend -- Stay Home!

Noah Zark

Noah Zark

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If anyone has (had) plans to take a trip this holiday weekend, what better way to send a message to the gasoline retailers than to make this a Labor Day Travel Non-Event -- cancel your travel plans to visit the In-Laws or that last trip to the beach or amusement park. Stay home, save your money, work on the fix-it list, have a few beers or your favorite non-alcoholic beverage, whatever. Just don't drive out of town.

Let's not turn Labor Day Weekend into a windfall payday for the retailers, OK?

Just stay home.


In other news:

$2.99 at 0615 today
$3.19 at 1220 today
$3.39 at 1500 today

Noah
 
Maybe i should tell my boss this:D "Hey, dad, ...um, like the gas is really 'spensive and I just KNOW we're being gouged. So um, what would you think about sticking it to the fat cats and NOT opening the store this weeken....<ducks roll-o-dex thrown at him>. Yeah, i agree. We'll go ahead and open up early." ;)

I agree though. i think a quiet weekend at home would do us all good. Saves our money, conserves the gas, allows us to just relax. Maybe make up a few excuses of why we can't get our chores done;) I think that sounds really nice. I think I'll take off both Sunday and Monday this year. it's a good excuse, and i need a break. A good day to get the grass cut (maybe;))...I might even sharpen a khuk or two.

Jake
 
FallingKnife said:
Gas mower?
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JACKPOT! Man, thanks again FallingKnife:) There's my trump card. "Sorry, honey, I HAVE to stay in and play xbox all day. Cut the grass? For godsakes woman, do you really want to help fill the pockets of those price gouging fat cats? We need to conserve!...i'm bored. I'm gonna go take my motorcycle for a spin. Don't touch the air conditioner setting while i'm gone." ;)

I'd never do that, but i WILL use the no-gas excuse to get out of cutting the grass. Katrina made it grow. it needs it, but it can wait;)

Jake
 
We need to invade a nation rich in oil...Just Kidding.

Tap Anwar. Allow refineries to be built with realistic EPA standards. Offer a reward for successful alternative energy. Those hybrid cars should have been here ten years ago. Is it possible to burn more coal than we are now with some environmental protections?
Course, if our society was better, healthier, safer, we could actually live in the cities we work in and wouldn't have to drive so far.


munk
 
This just in from a neighbor whose father owns a fuel oil/gasoline distributorship along the stateline of WI/IL. "Chip" is the manager. "Tracy" is the author's sister.:

I talked to my Dad this morning. He is very upset about the fuel business. I remember as a kid how upset he would get when they would call and tell us to the price of fuel went up. He said he woke up at 1:00 A.M. this morning and I doubt he has slept since. He said they have allocated the fuel. Chip told Tracy he feels people are starting to panic. Not a good situation. Like Dad said..we have clothes, water to drink, a house, and a place to go to the toilet. We are fortunate.
 
Steely_Gunz said:
I'd never do that, but i WILL use the no-gas excuse to get out of cutting the grass. Katrina made it grow. it needs it, but it can wait;)
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Or, you could use it as an excuse to purchase a Hasiya. Consider the nobility of environmentally sound yard maintenance! And since it has a lifetime guarantee and uses no fuel, you will actually save money in the long term!

X-Box doesn't sound bad, though.
 
Bri in Chi said:
I'm waiting for him to tell us to "go to Disneyland" ;)
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There was something in this morning's paper about sending some of the folks from New Orleans to places like Six Flags to get their mind's off their difficulties.
 
I actually heard a good idea, instead of not buying gas for a day or two, which im certain the gas moguls laugh at, we should stop buying from the two largest oil companies in the U.S., Exxon-Mobil and Shell I believe they are. If noone, or very few people at least, buy from them and instead buy at the smaller places, they will have to lower their prices in order to prevent a major loss. In turn, everyone will have to lower the cost. Sounds pretty good to me
 
Good idea but don't think it will work. I read somewhere that the smaller distributors buy their gas from the big guys anyway. So in reality your still buying from the big boys :(

I'm old enough to have been driving at the time the so called "energy crisis" hit in the 70's. I went through gas lines & then gas rationing. I think it's come out now, that it was all a scam. A pretense to raise the prices so the “fat cats” could get fatter.

I’m not a politician or an economist but I don’t think that’s the case this time (at least not a big cause anyway). I think that a group of situations has come about, man made or otherwise, that are the cause of this.

I think Munk brought up Anwar and the lack of refineries. 2 good reasons. Add that to OPEC cutting production, supplies being diverted for the war effort and the state & federal fuel tax’s being raised.. Couple those items with a natural disaster and the last big weekend of travel for the summer and I’m not naïve enough to believe the “fat cats” aren’t in the scenario too. All this has come together to make the problem

I’m sure they’re more reasons then this. It’s never as simple as “Corporate Joe needing a new Bentley, so gas goes up” .

As I said I’m not a politician or an economist. This is just my opinion.
We will get through it though. We did in the 70’s and we will now. Bitching all the way as only us Americans can. :D

I’m a luckier then a lot of people. I’ve got my family, my health and a place to come home to. Everything else is gravey.

Mark T.
 
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