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Posted By: Mel. White In Response To: A great idea (Anthony)
Thursday, 4 May 2006, at 11:09 a.m.
> Instead of going to the gas station and purchasing $10 worth of gas,
> purchase $9. Or, if you normally purchase $20, only purchase $19 or $18.
> You'll only be getting a little less gas, but if large numbers of people
> begin doing this, the gas company's revenues will fall between 5%-10%!
Not really. You'll just be buying gas more frequently... AND making more trips to the gas station and therefore driving more/spending more money.
> Another major thing you can do is to stop buying any coffee, snacks, or
> other merchandise from Gas Station convenience stores. These items add
> significantly to the gas company's profits.
Actually, the one that they hurt is the little gas station owner who is getting added revenue from them. So it puts the little guy's business at risk while not seriously impacting the big guy's prices.
I know it's something we all worry about, and Yahoo had some decent suggestions (car pool if you can, make fewer trips, etc.) There's also politicians who are pushing car companies to deliver cars with better gas mileage, your local city has recycling and heat/winter energy saving tips for you that they would LOVE for everyone to implement, and so forth. And there's Congresscritters who are looking into the price raises (so send them an email of "THANKS!" and encourage YOUR Congresscritter to do the same thing!)
But, since we're talking this topic again and we're all concerned, here's some sites with things we can all do (even if it's just ONE thing that we do).
But, please, let's not endanger the small businesses in our own neighborhoods!
http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-17/1146494545141470.xml&coll=2
http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20060502/bs_prweb/prweb378452_4
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