dont buy gas on may 15th
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05-14-2007, 10:33 PM
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05-15-2007, 01:17 AM
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05-15-2007, 01:27 AM
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05-15-2007, 05:23 AM
RE: dont buy gas on may 15th
ORIGINAL: Silver Eagle
Richard Nixon had the right Idea back in the 70's he made a law that said all speed limits will be reduced to 55 mph on all Federally Funded Highways. With in a month the prices dropped and the oil companies had more gasoline then they could sell. And it stayed that way for a long long time. Until now. I remember the prices dropping as much as a Dollar a gallon or more. Forweard this to George Bush. See if he can con his way out of this.
Richard Nixon had the right Idea back in the 70's he made a law that said all speed limits will be reduced to 55 mph on all Federally Funded Highways. With in a month the prices dropped and the oil companies had more gasoline then they could sell. And it stayed that way for a long long time. Until now. I remember the prices dropping as much as a Dollar a gallon or more. Forweard this to George Bush. See if he can con his way out of this.
#45
05-15-2007, 05:26 AM
RE: dont buy gas on may 15th
ORIGINAL: mdram43
its not going to work. at all. incase anyone hasnt noticed yet. the fuel companies are all independent. they each run on their own. they can each mark fuel to w/e they want. so someone could drop it down to $2 a gallon and still make a huge profit. but as long as they see the other guy seliing at 3 their gonna do the exact same, and each make billions a year in profits. boycotting wont do a single thing. gas is a necessity and they know we will buy. we have to.
not buying on the 15th is stupid. you'd have to do it for a whole month or something. cuz o wow u didnt buy on the 15th but guess what you bought it on the 12th to prepare for the 15th or u buy it on the 17th cuz ur damn near fumes from not buying on the 15th.
its no a matter of boycotting, its a matter of someone bigger stepping in and doing something with the oil companies.
its not going to work. at all. incase anyone hasnt noticed yet. the fuel companies are all independent. they each run on their own. they can each mark fuel to w/e they want. so someone could drop it down to $2 a gallon and still make a huge profit. but as long as they see the other guy seliing at 3 their gonna do the exact same, and each make billions a year in profits. boycotting wont do a single thing. gas is a necessity and they know we will buy. we have to.
not buying on the 15th is stupid. you'd have to do it for a whole month or something. cuz o wow u didnt buy on the 15th but guess what you bought it on the 12th to prepare for the 15th or u buy it on the 17th cuz ur damn near fumes from not buying on the 15th.
its no a matter of boycotting, its a matter of someone bigger stepping in and doing something with the oil companies.
#46
05-15-2007, 01:43 PM
RE: dont buy gas on may 15th
The object is to do without. Dont change the pattern. Or if you do, only get what will get you buy. For some time I have been only putting $20 dollars at time in the Ram. $10 in the clunker and $5 in the motorcycle.
I was topping off all any of the at the end of the day. Now, I buy what I need and only what I need. If I need to stop again, I do.
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05-15-2007, 02:29 PM
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RE: dont buy gas on may 15th
Call me the putz of the bunch... Wether i spend it todya or tomorrow... They'll still get their monies.. And besides... I saw gas for 2.81a gallon.. So i jumped at it... Does'nt seem like tooo much a profit there... Where everyone else around me is 2.91 or higher....
#48
05-16-2007, 07:23 PM
RE: dont buy gas on may 15th
To HankL's post #39 on page two, great post!!! Not only some excellent history, but right on the mark. Not to show my age, but I remember here in PA back in the late seventies you couldn't buy gas any day of the week, it was, if i remember that far back correctly, even or odd? Depending on what your plate number ended with. I was young and dumb and drivingaround with my arm around a beautiful blonde haired young lady, listening to the...uh...8-track player blasting Fog Hat or maybe it was Ted Nugent, and realizedI was on empty, so I rolled into the very long line and by the time I got to the pump, a 9 foot 400 pound something PA State Trooper with a low tolerance for my forgetfulness informed me I didn't know the law and couldn't buy gas. The girl I was with, started crying, worrying how we were going to get home, he gave in, let me buy gas, and what the hell, I married the girl! That was life in the seventies, and many a people pushed their cars up to the gas pumps because of running out. Scary when you think of it and I could certainly see it happenning again in an instant. After all, history does indeed repeat itself. Now if I could only find my 8-track player. I foundsome tapes, but all I haveleft is Led Zepplin, ELO, Santana, Bad Company, Black Sabbath. lol. Those were the days when allI had to worry about was if the car was dirty or clean!
#49
05-16-2007, 07:33 PM
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