How would my being on the inside enable me to know how to bring the oil industry down? The oil industry (like most industries) is governed by forces of supply and demand and if you consumers can not even go without buying gas for more than a single day then I don't think that gas prices will go down any time soon. I think that the basic premise for a Gas Out is a good one (i.e. stop giving big oil money). However, it would seem that if people really wanted to incite some change in gas prices they would need to stop buying gas for several weeks or months even. Also a real boycott involves altering one's lifestyle in order to do without something, not, as somegirl mentioned above, simply shifting the date you purchase it.
Rosa Parks didn't decide to take the 11:30 bus instead of the 9:00 bus, she walked.
The US with 5% of the world's population uses 45% of all gasoline produced and despite high gas prices demand continues to go up every year. Seeing as I have not lived in the US my whole life (or for the past 3 weeks) I will again ask you, the consumers and source of high prices, how I can bring Big Oil down. Any more ideas?
How would my being on the inside enable me to know how to bring the oil industry down? The oil industry (like most industries) is governed by forces of supply and demand and if you consumers can not even go without buying gas for more than a single day then I don't think that gas prices will go down any time soon. I think that the basic premise for a Gas Out is a good one (i.e. stop giving big oil money). However, it would seem that if people really wanted to incite some change in gas prices they would need to stop buying gas for several weeks or months even. Also a real boycott involves altering one's lifestyle in order to do without something, not, as somegirl mentioned above, simply shifting the date you purchase it.
Rosa Parks didn't decide to take the 11:30 bus instead of the 9:00 bus, she walked.
The US with 5% of the world's population uses 45% of all gasoline produced and despite high gas prices demand continues to go up every year. Seeing as I have not lived in the US my whole life (or for the past 3 weeks) I will again ask you, the consumers and source of high prices, how I can bring Big Oil down. Any more ideas?