yea were already at $4.49 gal here in ny (for diesel)

 

02cummins, you guys in Rochester are about $0.20 higher they my local Kwik Fill at $4.29, as for the theory of stop buying from Exxon Mobil, that was around a while and ago. They don't care because someone else will buy it. I'm sure of the web page but there is a way to find out how to buy gas that is not supporting foreign oil.

 

the issue is people wouldnt stick to their guns, they could easily buy from shell or valero, all get their own oil, they dont buy from exxon/mob. the only way it could work is lets say gas is at 3.25, if someone got everyone to agree on that as long as exxon is above 2.75 they wouldnt get gas from them, make it public so exxon knows that, but the thing is people in this country are cheap, they would rather take a .10 decrease that would kill the movement and then gas would be right back up where it was before. instead of waiting for it to get to 2.75, and if exxon then tried to raise it up again just start going back to shell or valero. then take it down to a 2.25 requirement..... it would work, but it wont because people cant work on a common goal, even if the common goal benefits them a lot would rather take the small short term savings of a few cents per gal.


if you dont think it would work break it down to a small town that has just two gas stations, if someone publishes in the newspaper to strike agains gas station A unless they drop down to 2.5 from 3 gas station A would go out of business because it wouldnt be hard for everyone to just go to gas station B. Then once gas station A goes to 2.5 nobody would buy from station B so they would drop their price, then if they both talk to eachother and say lets both raise it back to 3, then everyone just starts buying from B again until A lowers its price to what the citizens stated.

the national dont buy gas doesnt make sense as everyone will just buy it the day before or the day after. regardless of how much planning and participation goes on it simply cant work.
the above could work but we are too stupid of a society to actually band together to do something.

ok look at it this way, your favorite beer is 4 dollars cheaper per 12 pack at the store across the street from the store you normaly buy it from, what store are you going to buy from?

 

We can all chip in a dollar, that should be more than enough money to hire Steven Segal and Jean Cluade Van Damme to rage a personal war against the oil company's like "On Deadly Ground".

 

This would never work. Petroleum products are highly fungible commodities.

Try taking Economics 101 at your local community college before you hit us with your next great idea.