dailyfueleconomytip.com — Thanks to the recent run-up in gas prices, our email accounts have become cluttered with chain emails asking us to boycott major gas stations on a certain date in the future in an attempt to "cripple" Big Oil. This is a ridiculous idea and anyone with a quasi-functional brain knows it won't work.
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derangedMay 9, 2007
@aegisgfxwe're not talking about more efficient heating and air units here, we're talking about the world's supply of petroleum, and more specifically, the united states' high dependency on it. It's an economically sound decision to purchase vehicles with better gas mileage no matter how much money you can afford to spend on gas. It is still better for the economy.
timothybryceMay 9, 2007
When you complain about the price of gas, you simply exhibit for all to see that your socioeconomic class and your level of economic literacy are both lacking.
mythandrosMay 9, 2007
@timothybriceI'd rather be lacking in socioeconomic class than be an elitist prick.
khizMay 16, 2007
A gallon of Starbucks black coffee (1.80 for 24 ounces) will cost around $30.39. Roughly 16.885 X more expensive than gasoline at $3 per gallon.That's for the "cheap" coffee with nothing extra! FFT:Coffee is 100% sustainable and renewable. Depending on who you talk to Coffee has biological and socially beneficial attributes.Gasoline is a finite resource and is environmentally and biologically harmful through it's entire product lifecycle.On the surface it sounds like we are getting !@#$%% by Starbucks. In reality are we paying less at the pump by paying more for clean-up and health issues? If we had a 100% renewable source for powering our vehicles are we actually saving money?
mercymillenniumMay 16, 2007
The article is not...quite accurate.If everyone did not buy gas on one day it would cost big oil money, just not s much as you think. Some people really WOULD cut back on driving because of this. The companies would lose interest on 3 billion dollars for 1 day. Not a ton of money but nothing to sneeze at either. Companies would be paying a workforce for one day that...didn't work. It would raise awareness in the publics mind about gas and I have no doubt shift opinion about how we are getting the shaft.I don't much like the e-mails either but to say they are useless is far from true.
slicknickJun 4, 2007
A big part of the cost of gasoline is the taxes imposed by the government. The oil companies aren't entirely to blame.IMHO, everyone should own at least two bicycles. If your daily commute is anything under 20 miles, and you're not in a smog-ridden inner city, consider biking; it will make you healthier and sexier!"When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills"
akghost001Mar 16, 2008
I still have to agree, I'm still getting a ton of those e-mails routinely! I wished I lived close enough to where I need to get to bike and such, and I wish I had the endurance to do so to get there and return. <a class="user" href="http://www.oilbeat.com">http://www.oilbeat.com</a>