Kudos to this man/ station for taking a pro-active stand concerning the ridiculous state of gasoline prices. Granted it may not make much of a difference, but it is certainly good to know that there are still people in this country who are willing to do something like this to prove a point.
To all the gas and oil companies::
As a result of your greed and increasing your record profit margins my wife and I have decided to stay home this Memorial Day weekend to save money. And for the foreseeable future all our driving journeys will be at the discretion of the prices you are setting at the pumps. I do not blame the local stations or their owners for this but you and you alone. I will purchase gas for our car when I absolutely need to at the cheapest price I can find, but I highly doubt we will be making any joyriding trips cross-country this year.
I also hope that you are enjoying your fancy cars, that probably get horrible gas mileage, while the rest of try to figure out how much gas we can actually afford to put in our cars each week. And by the way, I don’t believe that all the BS in the media concerning shortages and supply/ demand is actually accurate. That is what we are supposed to believe, but we also know that you are willing to close down oil production when the surpluses hit a certain point so that the supply and demand will then allow you to raise your prices AGAIN! It is ridiculous!
There should NEVER be any so-called shortages, your facilities should NEVER shut down unless there are actual physical reasons to do so. If the utility companies decided at random to just quit working and shut down their facilities, everyone, including yourselves would be severely ticked off. And if you say otherwise then I challenge ALL the utility companies that service your homes to, at random, begin shutting off your services multiple times during the year.
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Now I am by no means one who is a ‘conservationist at all costs’, but I try to not be wasteful, though I am fully aware that I fail at that from time to time. However right now with the stranglehold the oil companies have on our entire economy and industries (beyond gas and oil production, to all the everyday products we buy) we need to push harder than ever to annihilate our dependence on oil. If for no other reason that to put the oil overlords in their place.
There have been emails and other online articles concerning a boycott of a major oil company’s gas to attempt to lower gas prices. I have also seen counter articles stating that these boycott attempts have been pushed for years with little to no success. But quite honestly gas prices have never been as high and as difficult to muster than in the past 12-18 months.
I believe there is enough resentment of the oil companies over these high prices that if the research is done to show which gasoline companies purchase their product from Exxon Mobil, and it is published, then this theory might actually hold water. To pull it off and make it work it would take a vast majority of drivers across this country to agree to hold to it. It may even require paying a few cents more per gallon down the street at first, but given a period of time it will begin to hurt the bottom line for the said major oil company.
I am all for it and I will begin to do the research myself. If anyone else can provide information on this we may just be able to make a difference in this massive price gouging of the American people.
