NOT A VIABLE OPTION!

If people will stop and think,  this will NEVER work.  The only thing that WOULD work is to alter your gas consumption.

With a ONE DAY "GAS OUT" all that means is that you'll fill up on MONDAY the 14th or WEDNESDAY the 16th.

This is another one of those OLD things running around the internet that just won't die....

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

Thanks Ron,

I was going to send her to snopoes also.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp

That is more about this particular one day thing...the other one is about boycotting bigger oil companies...sorry.  

Don't like the idea either.  I will spend more money the day before or after.  If there is a possibility of everybody converting to public transportation for a couple of days that might be interesting.  I don't relish the idea since public transportation is very inadequate, but I would give it a shot.

I am going to make my clients walk to all of the houses that I will be showing tomorrow! lol

Hey!  That would be an interesting idea...bet it would create urgency for your buyers and eliminate the looky-loos!

If they lose money, they'll just increase the prices even more to make up for the difference ... where's the logic in such protest?

Long term reduction in gasoline use is the only viable answer.  Buy a smaller car, use it less, all year long.  

And ethanol is not the answer either.  It takes soil degradation and almost as much energy to produce ethanol as gasoline.  

It would be a great idea - IF it works. But it doesn't.

IF you really want to make it meaningful, EVERYBODY - and I mean EVERYBODY - should park their cars, trucks, buses, trains, planes, jets, boats and ships for a month, shut off all their heat for a month, shut down fossil fuel burning factories and power plants for a month - then watch what happens.

Simply put, if nothing else, people HAVE to get to a and from work, HAVE to heat their homes, and factories and power plants and operators of all modes of transport MUST continue lest we all become unemployed.

Then what? There goes the real estate market....

Let's see, I am paying about $100 more a month now than a year or so ago. That's $1200.00 more in a year's time. I figure if I sell one more house and quit eating Reese's Cups, I'll be okay.

Janet, I know that this is a major problem that will not find a quick overnight fix. I also know that you posted this so it would help. I think trying to fix something is alot better than doing nothing.

There are just times there are no quick answers, but if we all did our part to be a little more conservative like Mark suggests I think we could see results.

I already feel sorry for the next president, as he, she will have to be superman. It's not going to happen.

I was born and grew up in Europe. The gas prices have always been quite higher there then they are here. The small 1liter to 2 liter engines were doing just as good of a job there as the 2.5L and up are doing here. How often do we use the engine power to its fullest anyway? If only the car manufactures and importers paid more attention to this and public asked for more of the smaller engine cars, it would make a major difference! ... just an example ... I have a small 3-door Hyundai Accent with a 1.7L engine (THE SMALLEST ONE this car had in the USA when I bought it in 2004) ... while in Czech Republic, where I grew up, this 1.7L engine was the BIGGEST one for this car ... now, why is that?

Well I will join in on the no pump gas tomorrow....only because I was on "walk" this morning and had to fill up, or I would of been walking!  And walking in Florida in the middle of the day is not something I care to do!  ;)

As Ron mentioned above, boycotting for one day will do NO good.  Needs to be long term....and good luck trying to do that in our line of work.  Not going to happen.

Face it folks, we are moving forward not backwards and everything costs more today then it did 10-20 years ago.  Just think about 20-30 years from now what things will cost!  Prices will continue to increase, everything always does!

According to biology, if it is a she, she will have to be superwoman.

Tomorrow, we will go over where babies come from.

:)

Mike, I won't want a front row seat to that one, but I am still calling our female mailman a mailman. She isn't offended. My husband calls her femailman.

but we all know spiderman is a man, so don't worry. No  woman in her right mind would want an affiliation with a spider.

Janet,  it's not that some of don't want to contribute to a solution, but doing things that do not solve the problem is futile.  These so called "gas outs" have been being passed around since 2000 or so and never has one even gotten an publicity, let along impacted the bottom line for an oil company.

There are solutions, but they are PAINFUL.  People will do more to avoid pain than they will to seek pleasure...However, the cost has NOT been painful enough for most to create change.  When that happens, look out because it will be fast and dramatic, just like a persons reflex reaction to touching a hot stove.

I'm getting up there, but have to admit that I didin't participate in gas rationing and if I remember, it didn't work.  

Change can be started in many ways, but NOT buying gas for one day is not what will do it.  If everyone didn't buy gas for a MONTH? Maybe...

Now, those who are serious about change, can lobby their congressmen for legislation for change but guess what...their pockets are lined by the big automakers and so it becomes a vicious circle.  

Plus, there are so many out there that LIKE their big vehicles...Just like John Kerry said,  he drives a small car, but his "FAMILY" owns and drives an Expedition because they LIKE it.  Course he never mentions the jet that probably uses more fuel in a day than all his cars use in a month...but that's going way off on a tangent.

Hey Janet,   I was thinking about you last night, evidently the local news guys decided to pick up on the not buying gas idea, they reported somewhat slower consumption throughout the city. So a number of people followed through,  maybe you can extend the idea for a week long period.   I did not buy gas either only because I didn't need to.