The station at the intersection of Hwy. 42 and Barber Mill went from $3.19 on Wednesday morning to $3.43 Wednesday afternoon. Absolutely insane!
received this in a e-mail today. any economists or experts out there? will this change anything? my thought is that probably many of the independents buy their gas from exxon/mobile. is this just another stupid idea? =========================== "We'll show you a gas boycott! THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $1.30 PER GALLON. This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please. Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas . It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can Really work. Please read on and join with us! By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $2.00 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $3.08 at Arco and Costco for regular unleaded in Salem, Oregon and climbing every week. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war. Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!! I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers . If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!! Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all! (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am . so trust me on this one. How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference."
Barney's plan Wont work. If Exxon is like BP they will sell their gas to independents. Moxt of our gas comes up the colonial pipeline and a gallon of gas is a gallon of gas. If we don't stop using it we are going to buy from somewhere else.
Fuel Depot on Benson Rd. went from $3.14 this morning to $3.25 this afternoon. www.gasbuddy.com will show you the cheapest gas anywhere in the country.
I'm having to drive to Lumberton and back twice a week to take my mother to chemo, so I cna't cut back much. I do very little driving except back and forth two work. I try to run all my errands on that route. So, I just have to suck it up for now, I guess.
I assume that it an average type thing where they are making a profit at the moment, but will suffer a loss when the price does drop.
I remember back in the 70's during the gas crisises. I got my drivers license in 1975. And in 1977 when we had the second gas crises I would go to the local grocery store (A&P) I would pick up a case of cold soda and a case of cold beer.. I would take two 6 packs of soda and two 6 packs of beer and put them into one flat. I would walk up and down the line of cars selling soda for 50 cents and a beer for 75 cents. Usually by the time I got to the pumps I had sold 12 soda's and 12 beers. I would of spent about 5.00 on the soda and beer and would have at least 15.00 by the time I got to the pumps. It may be a good thought to raise money for gas this time around.
its all speculation Saudi's have agreed to increase production to offset the disruptions. Its a another fleecing if ya ask me
