Don’t pump gas May 15
Personally I don’t think this will work. Today gas prices were $3.32 a gallon near me and I am getting close to my wits end. About 2 months ago I could fill up for $25 and now it’s $40 because of these price hikes. I want my $2 gas back!
Recently I highlighted a rant on gas prices and I was simply bothered at how quick they went up. Now I am upset with how much they have gone up in general. There’s so many so called reasons I read in the paper trying to make the case to explain why gas prices are high. My biggest question is why do we just put up with it? I like my car and enjoy driving it, but if gas prices continue to rise this rapidly it will become ever increasingly harder to deal with them. I have been waiting for things to balance out here awhile. Interest rates have risen much higher than they used to be as well. Taxes always seem to be going up. The value of the dollar has diminished greatly.
I’m not buying gas tomorrow to see if it will make any bit of difference. That stupid e-mail has been forwarded to me so many times, I guess I will go with the flow. Maybe I’ll invest in a bike, it’s just the 14 mile commute that becomes a problem.
CNN says that this won’t work.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/14/news/economy/gas_boycott/index.htm?postversion=2007051413
Gas is at $3.49 today. This might be a way for these stations to stay in business if very few buy gas today. I’ll wait to tomorrow to see if the price gets better.
The best way to reduce gas prices is to reduce your own consumption. If that is impossible, or you have already reduced as much as you can, you can easily find savings in other areas of your budget to make up the difference. On a 20 mile round trip commute with a 20mpg vehicle, the monthly cost of $4.00/gal compared to $3.00/gal is fairly negligible.
We can all weather the storm and live to make good long term choices.