I don't think you guys understood me. I wasn't being sarcastic; I'm serious when I say a boycott on hurricanes would be far more effective than a puny half-assed effort to boycott gas.
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I don't think you guys understood me. I wasn't being sarcastic; I'm serious when I say a boycott on hurricanes would be far more effective than a puny half-assed effort to boycott gas.
Can we boycott bottled water next?Quote:
Originally Posted by kawakami Gensai
Go ahead, boycott it. The fact is, you won't get far. The prices will remain what the market can hold. And the oil companies are rich enough that they could hold out in a siege longer than we could. Face it, gasoline is one of the major conveniences of our age. Now, with it becoming more scarce, and being controlled by a monopoly (essentially), the prices are rising. It's not surprising. Anyone who's taken economics could tell you that this would happen. When it gets to the point that people would rather stop using it then pay, that will happen. It won't be a boycott as much as a switch to something else. It's already happening. More and more people are looking for alternatives. Hybrid cars, bicycles... A boycott wouldn't change a damned thing. So don't bother. Just start using alternative transportation yourself. Others will change when they're ready. And eventually we won't use oil anymore. WE are still willing to use oil at the current prices. If you're not, don't, but don't ask us to change what we're doing because you're paying too much.
Yes, the gas companies are tying themselves up. Taking such advantage of current market design is about the most retarded thing they can do.
Sure they can shell in the money right now, but the outrageous hike will make people more willing to invest in other modes of transportations. Like fuel cells, and hybrid cars. It is speeding up thier own demise.
Greed for teh loose.
Bipper
Gas companies can raise the prices just as much as they want. People are so dependent of gas theyu will purchase it no matter what the prices are. And the prices aren't even that high in the USA. Around 3$ a gallon or something like that. Where I live the gas is 5.7$ and it doesn't stop anyone from using their cars.
There you're wrong. As the prices raise, fewer people will purchase it. And while there are some who will keep buying it, the majority will switch over to an alternative energy source. And once that source is properly developed, OPEC can cut prices all they want and they still won't get people to switch back. The oil supplies aren't infinite, and they will run out. We will have to switch someday anyway. Then OPEC's great monopoly will fail (and I'll be laughing my @$$ off).Quote:
Originally Posted by jrgen
Yes, but, once gas reaches the point where you can't earn your living when factoring in petrol prices, you're going to have to make a change no matter how much you love your car. Some people will decide to abandon traditional motor vehicles before that point, everyone will once they reach that point.Quote:
Originally Posted by jrgen
O_OQuote:
I drive a small car already (chevy cavalier)
A 3-litre engine is small? Good God, the American standard for a 'small car'. A 1.3 litre is a small engine. A 1 litre engine, is a small engine. A car that does 16 kilometers (25 miles) on one litre (0.25 gallon) of fuel, is a car that conserves fuel, and uses it efficiently. A muscle car is a very cool thing indeed, but also a very effective fuel-reducing agent.
True it is difficult for most of you, however, if companies are making a signifigantly decreased revenue, they have no choice, but to decrease gas cost in oreder to sell products. Also this isn't necessartily a ban on gas all together, Im just more or less saying we should conserve it, so as to decrease company profits. Cmon even before the hurricanes the cost of gas was crazy at near 2.70 a gallon in my town.
I filled up today. Whoops.
It will never reach such a point. Look at the gas prices in Europe for example. They are constantly increasing and have been for a really long time. At places the gas prices are as high as 7$ a gallon. Maybe people would abandon their cars if the concept of public transportation would evolve a little further, but as it is today, people who live on the country or in the suburbs do need effective means of personal transportation.Quote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF
Yeah, true, but here in Europe we don't whine about gas prices, and I think the Americans often view cars not only as a necessity but as a right. They'll take a lot lessQuote:
Originally Posted by jrgen
than we do about it. Especially given that our prices rose over a long time as taxes grew steadily, whilst they're seeing jumps of what, $0.40 a day?
How many litres to the gallon for the poor metric people in this world?
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Originally Posted by FluroChoco
Gasoline will run out during all of our lifetimes, assuming we don't die before that happens (and call it premature because everybody has to die at the ripe old age of 198 after all their affairs has been set, and they sit there in their hospital bed hacking and coughing until oops they died). So I don't really consider it that big a deal. YES it's a big deal in the sense that we can stop using gas NOW and pollute LESS, but I don't really care about pollution, just human conveniences.
So burn down the oil 'rivers' and do whatever -- it makes little difference in the end.
Though seriously the best course of action is to boycott the big names. There ARE no-name or non-big-huge gasoline companies everywhere, hopefully, and so you can all go there until they make so much money that they are like the big names lolz!