Hey, Kirker, if you really want to do a good deed, there is this widow of a murdered Nigerian oil prince who wants to send you a small fortune. Take her up on the deal and buy us all some gasoline!
I hate to break this news but Exxon, BP, and Marathon regularly trade fuels based on available supply in the region. If the Marathon terminal in Latonia has enough of the proper blend on hand, they routinely sell to ALL fuel stations.
Frankly, the oil companies trade truckload for truckload all the time. You can't really know where the fuel is coming from.
Plus there aren't that many refineries for each gas station to crack their own gas.
The government is the one making serious bank on gas anyway.
Hey, Kirker, if you really want to do a good deed, there is this widow of a murdered Nigerian oil prince who wants to send you a small fortune. Take her up on the deal and buy us all some gasoline!
Pippen
No good deed doing here. Just thought it was "interesting". But for what it's worth I don't see how this is naive. Just hard to accomplish. Is it so hard to believe that the American people can't change what is wrong. Or are we really at the mercy of a few individuals. I'd like to think we have some control over what happens. But we could also sit back and see whats happens.
Oh and thanks for the tip on snopes.
By the way you're sorta of a jerk, but then again you could have been having bad day.
They can charge whatever the hell they want because we'll keep buying it...
Bingo! The rappin' economist hits the nail on the head.
And as ScrmnPeeler reminds us, if Kirker's boycott of a big oil company succeeds in cutting its retail sales, it simply cracks for the non-boycotted companies.
There are only three ways to put downward pressure of the price of gas.
1) BUY LESS OF IT
2) INCREASE THE SUPPLY
3) DECREASE GAS TAXES - Hah!
Only 1 & 3 are possible short-term actions. You can forget #3.
That leaves #1.
Personally, I parked the Jeep and drive the Miata, thus cutting my consumption by more than 50%. But, that's what I do every summer anyway. Years ago I worked for Patagonia Inc. here in Bozeman. I'd say everybody at work saw themselves as environmentally enlightened. My commute to work was 12 miles one way. I suggested to a particularly self righteous co-worker that lived nearby that we car pool to work as we were both driving gas guzzling Isuzu Troopers. They thought it would be too inconvenient.
Bottom line is, it's supply and demand, and it's difficult to change people's behavior.
No fancy schemes will have any impact. If you want the price to come down, use less.
Is consumption down or up since last year? I know the cost per barrall of oil is less.
Is it really our consumption or rather what we're willing to put up with.
