The Great Gas Out.
The great gas out, the day where people boycott the gas station, has come and gone. In my past blogs I explained why this would not work and what would happen if they had a gas out day. I just didn't realize it would happen so fast and with such vengeance. The gas companies showed us who is in control. They bumped the gas up twenty cents per gallon. Today it is expected that they will raise it another twenty cents or more per gallon. The word from the gas and oil companies is very clear. "Don't mess with us, you are dependent on us and we can pull the rug out from under you at any time we want." " If you don't like it, complain to your elected officials."
They know that this will have no effect for the following reasons
1) Every time the gas prices go up, the state and federal govt. gets more tax revenue.
2) This is a democracy, supply and demand, and people have a right to make a profit.
3) If you don't like the price, don't buy the gas.
Then you have to love their excuses for raising the price.
1) Hurricanes
2) Refineries on recess
3) Demand is up
4) The war in Iraq.
5) Government regulations
6)Retooling
7) etc.................
You want answers? You want the truth? "You can't handle the truth."
1) Boycott one brand of Gas for a month. Then move on to the next brand. United they stand, divided they fall.
2) All new vehicles have to get more then 25 miles per gallon.
3) Remove all the taxes on gas, and put it on alcohol.
Finally, have the Governor and state officials explain where all the taxes from gas sales are going. The state is having the largest windfall of tax revenue, and the Gov. wants to raise your taxes.
The elected officials are screwing you and raising the cost of the vasaline to do it.
Life in general
1 comment:
The big problem with the "great gas out" is that the people you are trying to hurt dont feel a thing. It is the little people who work at the stations. When you refuse to buy gas for a day or so our sales drop. If sales drop too far than the only thing that happens is that we end up having to lay people off because of the lack of income. The oil companies just look at it as "oh poor us we now have a bigger stock pile of extra gasoline" The workers in the station are looking at their bottom line and the profit that keeps the store running. If you really want to hurt the oil companies ride a bike to the gas station to go inside and buy a cold drink or coffee or if your in the mood popcorn or other munchies. That will at least give some operating cash to the station and help make up the lost profit from the gas. The mark up at a station is only a few cents per gallon. Not like the big oil companies who are recording record profits for each quarter. Stop buying gas---- why so we can have more unemployeed. Because if you dont even stop at the station then they will loose so much money they will have to start laying off people. Now do you want the money that you would have spent on gas but now it will go towards higher taxes to support a larger welfare system cuz we will all be out of jobs.
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