I owned a car wash gas station and we made the least profit in the whole supply chain for fuel but got the brunt of the complaints from the consumer. The oil companies cry they don't make much either but if you have ever been to their offices they look as though everything is made of gold, wild swings in prices they like as manipulation is easy.
No ****! And a stupid idiotic spam mail at that. By not buying gas on one day isn't going to do ****. It doesn't take a ****ing rocket scientist to figure that out. Shouldn't there be a no spam law around FC? I think so.
"Don't buy gas" day is as stupid as "Bike to work" day -- what we need is "Move closer to work" day and "Have fewer children" day
The people who are dumb enough to think this would ever work are most likely the same idiots who send checks to those Nigerian scam artists. Regards, Jon P. Kofod www.flatoutracing.net
Oh well, I just broke down and filled the Maranello. F I F T Y-F O U R dollars later! What a country! DL
I have this hunch, if you will, that if America uncapped its wells and began its own oil exploration to fuel its own country.... you will see prices drop like you've never seen. Call me 'environmentaly wreckless', call me what you will, but you cannot refute the supply and demand competition aspect of that plan. Today... I didn't buy any gas either! (still on three quarters of a tank)
same here. this don't buy gas day was just a joke. effect on market? uhh, probably not one dent. perhaps it should be 'don't buy gas for a week' - now that might be something, but the soccer mom's in the SUV's wouldn't be able to get around too well.
I don't know about you guys, but a whole day is to inconvenient for me. How about a national do not buy gas hour? Say 3-4 pm on May 19?
This assumes that the other 22 gallons from that barrel are completely worthless. This is far from the case. Motor oil, lubricants, Diesel, Jet fuel, Asphalt, naptha, and a host of other profitable byproducts.
You are correct. Please feel free to ***** slap me. That's what I get when posting when I am exhausted. One thing I did forget however was that as the cost per barrel goes up, so does the cost of refining. The power to run the refinery doesn't magically appear. This will be a fun couple of months. -ag
