Real Name: sarah vela Member Since: April 09, 2008 Last Signed In: May 27, 2008 Profile Views: 232 Blog Views: 124 All over Myspace... May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 
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As we all know gas prices keep going up. I feel like I have been missing out on so much do to these high gas prices and I only leave my house if I have doctors appointments for my family and me, and even so try to get everyone's appointments the same day as to not be back and forth to the doctor's office during the week. Also if we need groceries or need to go to work. Important stuff. Trips to the mall and park are out of the question for right now. I'm a regular Myspace user and alot of my friends and their friends are posting bulletins about NOT pumping gas for one day. Which May 15, 2008 was the day chosen. I don't know why this day. The bulletin says that in April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted Nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon over night. Gas right now is over $3.00 a gallon at most places. Which, on average, it would take 30-50 dollars to fill up a tank. The bulletin is basically asking all internet users not to go to a Gas station or pump gas for this ONE day in protest of high gas prices. Costing oil companies billions of dollars and also putting a dent in Middle Eastern oil industries. Note: this bulletin has been passed and reposted x amount of times on the internet. Which honestly isn't a bad idea at all! Me and everyone I know is all up for this protest! I just thought I'd bring this to our locals here in Victoria for those who aren't internet users.
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posted by
rnb777
on May 14, 2008 at 10:35 AM
i will probably be filling up on the 15th. : )
posted by
pilot
on May 14, 2008 at 07:00 AM
NIce try.......are you going to not drive that day either? That's where a boycott would actually be effective - actually USING less gasoline. Here are the words from http://urbanlegends.about.c... 1. There was no nationwide "gas out" in 1997. There was one in 1999, but it didn't cause gas prices to drop 30 cents per gallon overnight. In fact, it didn't cause them to drop at all. Despite the popularity of the email campaign, the event itself attracted scant participation and was completely ineffectual. 2. There are over 205 million Internet users in the United States, far more than the 73 million claimed. 3. If, say, a hundred million drivers refused en masse to fill up their tanks on May 15, the total of what they didn't spend could amount to as much as $3 billion. However, it doesn't follow that such a boycott would actually decrease oil companies' revenues by that amount, given that the average sales of gasoline across the entire U.S. is under $1 billion per day in the first place. 4. Whether the total impact was a half-billion, 3 billion, or 10 billion dollars, the sales missed due to a one-day consumer boycott wouldn't hurt the oil companies one bit. Think about it. Every single American who doesn't buy gas on Tuesday is still going to have to fill up their tank on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, making up for Tuesday's losses. Sales for the whole week would be normal, or very close to it. A meaningful boycott would entail participants actually consuming less fuel -- and doing so in a sustained, disciplined fashion over a defined period of time -- not just choosing to wait a day or two before filling up as usual. NIce photo......I predict that your profile views and photo hits will far surpass your Ourspace blog hits. Welcome
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