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Posted By: Michael J McMillan <mjmcmillan@NOSPAM.sisna.com> In Response To: A great idea (Anthony)
Thursday, 4 May 2006, at 6:45 p.m.
This saw comes out every summer as gas prices shoot up again, and it won't work this year any better than it worked the years before. A couple of the ideas are so bad that I'm surprised any thinking person would consider it.
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 likely to work at least the way most people drive. We all drive to and from work, school, shopping and for some of us, church on Sunday. Buying a dollar less gas on any given day just means you'll have to pull in that much sooner for the next tankful.
> 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.
The only people this really hurts is the folks running the convenience stores, many of whom are operating on pennies of profit for every dollar of sales. They're small businessmen, just like us on this board, and denying them sales in the mistaken belief that it might hurt Big Oil just serves to drive another small businessman into bankruptcy. Big Oil would barely notice, as it would have the effect on them of a gnat kicking an elephant.
The only way to drive down gas prices is to do the very thing we as Americans have been unwilling to do: Make basic changes in the way we live. As long as we insist that we can't be happy without owning and driving the biggest SUVs that can be found, and then driving them when it might be better to choose some other way to travel, as long as we insist on working a long distance from home so we have upwards of a two-hour commute in some cases, and as long as we continue to use energy as if gasoline were our God-given right, prices will continue to climb like a scared squirrell.
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