My twin tanks take 42 gallons or $120 at $2.85/gallon. Consumers can control the market, if they act consistently. If you'll spend a few minutes a week looking for the best price, and buy only the lowest price, prices will come down.

Find gas prices near you online before you leave:
http://www.automotive.com/gas-prices/index.html

Another Idea I've seen: The boycott of exxon mobile until they drop their prices, leading the industry as the largest supplier. It may work more quickly.

GAS WAR - an idea that WILL work

This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. 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.

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! 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 $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. 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.

If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK

 

Another good site.

http://gasbuddy.com/

 

Sorry but this has no chance. At about 30 cents a gallon in taxes and with the rising cost of everything I doubt selling fuel at $1 a gallon (1.30 minus the taxes) is even possible anymore. Like any other business it's not all profit. Those stores take money to operate and the trucks that deliver them and the plants that refine the oil...........I think you get the point. If we could keep gas to say $2.20 a gallon now that would be more realistic and slightly possible. Personally I couldn't care less, I'll pay $3 a gallon because that's what makes sense for today’s economy.

I'm not made of money but think about the last time gas was $1.30 a gallon (I mean normally too not the occasional neighborhood gas war). How much was a home worth then and how much now? What about your grocery bill, taxes, heating costs and electric? How much more does the average household make now since gas was $1.30? What could you buy a truck for then? It's called inflation and as much as people cry about it it's just life. Sure seems like a lot of people want to dwell on a silly uncontrollable thing. America still pays some of the cheapest prices in the world (let's not bust out Venezuela here either, totally different deal). Next time we get close to a shortage look at the world news and you'll see other countries already closing stations because they can't even get any anymore. After Katrina England went a couple days were then couldn't even get fuel at some stations. We're so spoiled that when we have problems other courtiers run out. No offence but I'll pay $3 a gallon, which is still cheaper then most other well to do countries, for the luxuries that America offers us.

 

I remember $0.99 for premium in 98 or 99. Regular was $0.79 I think. Last time for $1.30 was in January of '03.(did a little research) Gas companies are making record profits while gas prices are peaking. If you'll remember your economic theory this means they are selling well above their marginal cost. Meaning - price can be significantly lower. As you saw, I suggest the market approach. Look for the best price instead of filling up at your favorite station. If the majority of consumers do this prices will fall.

 

Osin86 is there something seriously wrong with you?....if everything inflated at the rate energy..esp gas and diesel has we would not be able to buy anything and there would be civil war.

 

LMAO, Looks like someone needs a history lesson.

Gas has been bouncing off the $1.30 mark since 1980! In the 80's it was well under a buck most of the time though but it didn't take long until it was back up and past the $1.30 mark in 1990. Fuel prices have always jumped up and down offering us some great prices even in the 90's but saying it was last $1.30 a few years ago derherr65 shows you either don't remember or aren't looking at the big picture. But now I have to ask you buffalobob, is there something seriously wrong with you? Everything is affected by the cost of energy like production, shipping and retail too. Go back and re-read what I posted and then tell me what hasn't doubled or tripled in price since 1980? Seriously people, lets get real, we've been spoiled for a long time and all it's doing is catching up with us.

 

Would you like a post of the receipts? Or we can do it an easier way... finding those receipts would take forever.

[IMG]ftp://apache.utdallas.edu/public_html/Hi/gaschart.jpg[/IMG]

ftp://apache.utdallas.edu/public_html/Hi/gaschart.jpg

 

What are you takling about? Did you read what I wrote? I'm guessing you're young and haven't been driving but the last few years. I never said you didn't pay that I said it's been up and down from that mark for over 2 decades. Care to comment on facts here?

 

"but saying it was last $1.30 a few years ago derherr65 shows you don't remember"

Next post

"I never said you didn't pay that"

Seems that my memory serves well enough for you to backtrack. Also to change from "care to comment on the facts" to "I'm guessing you're young and haven't been driving but the last few years." That didn't seem like a factual statement to me. Seemed more like an attempt to dismiss my facts due to your lack of same.

 

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

Enough said

 

Here, I'll make it easy. How long did I say you could find gas prices of $1.30? There's no way you've read what I wrote because you have yet to comment on it. Please read it and join in. Not backtracking here, I'd love to hear what you have to say when you start commenting on what I asked about. Again, read what I wrote, I was refering to the past history of fuel sales overall. What you don't "remember" is history, not a reciept I doubt you could even find (although I know you're telling the truth on that).

 

ExxonMobil made $36 B profit on $371 B of revenue. About 10 cents/gal profit. Investment firms do better than that, so why not complain about them?

Besides, someone had to ruin the thread by bringing in that already tired post about the ex Coca Cola executive and how sending it to 300 million folks will help. Hey, we don't have 300 million eligible US drivers, even with the 40 million illegals over here already...

Besides, 80 cent/gl gas a few years back left many workers out of work. When you have all the refineries on coasts still out of commission to some extent...then lob in the wrecked offshore pipeline stations and drilling/production platforms, we get reamed.

Also,

KILL THREAD NOW!

 

Sorry folks. The only way to drop the price of gasoline is to buy less of it.

 

When will this nonsense stop? I must have gotten 12 of those B.S. emails over the past three days alone. okst1 is right, the only to make the price drop is to buy less gas, not try to trick the companys into lowering their prices, they are not two years old, they are not stupid.

 

Actually the Only way to lower prices is to Stop buying oil based products all together,and this means Everyone in the world.


There is too much of an appetite for oil for prices to go back to where they were.

No Plans or schemes of any kind evxcept mine above will work.

No or little demand...means more inventory until they stop refining it ot lower prices due to a glut of it.

Head for China and tell them as well