*^%$$^% Gas

Conserve all of the gas and limit driving as much as possible. Don't go on the family automobile vacation this year for example!

don't buy any extras, like pop or snacks at the "GAS STATION". This won't help with gas consumption but it will help hurt the Gas Station's total sales. This is a form of protest, called "boycotting"!

Help organize or join a Gas P{rice Protest movement, and attend protest rallies, especially ones at gas stations. Don't do anything at one, except YELL. but it will give the news media something to report!

If you have a big gas guzzler SUV or Pickup, AND you have a more economical car as well, drive the economy car! Use the gas guzzler as little as possible!

Write letters to the editor of your newespaper instead of complaining on line. Your Gas suppliers DON'T read your protests here, but they might see one , or better yet DOZENS of them, in your paper.

The owner of the gas station is an independant(in most cases) and not big oil. Hurting him won't get you anywhere other than hurting a neighbor....

I'm sorry but your suggestions are worthless....

Yelling about a problem has never fixed the problem.

Don't you think that if media attention would pressure the powers that be to lower prices they would have? I have seen a ton of coverage and haven't seen prices drop yet? What good is an editorial, yelling at local gas station and not buy pop and snacks going to do.

You must be from the far left.....

Another thing, perhaps a mandated set of gasoline formulations, say something on the order of FOUR or FIVE in TOTAL, instead of the what is it, thirty, Fourty, A Hundred, which now exist, and which preclude smaller refineries from operating? I fail to see the need for MANDATED, INDIVIDUAL formulations for each individual and separate localitie, formulations mandated as CITY ORDINANCES and not National FEDERAL specifications?

I understand that we have hardly any operating refineries left, due to the mandates of our local municipalities and their onerous regulations.

The independent owner/operators almost never -- certainly never at national brand name stores -- buy the gas first.

"Corporate" owns the gas in the ground, tells the independent what to charge for it, and collects there part of the price from the gas station afterwards.

(Lots of other stuff is like this, too. Stores don't pay in advance for newspapers -- they effectively only pay for the ones not returned to the newspaper the next morning).

Guess the price ain't too high yet.

So my question is..... .....
How high does it need to go before you do something about it????? ?????

I drive the roads 5 days a week 300 to 400 miles a day in my job delivering gas/diesel to stations. I see more and more large SUV's; 1 ton pickups with a house wife at the wheel and bags of groceries in the back. Roads are packed at all hours of the day not just rush hour to and from work.
Do not get me wrong. I feel every one should have the size vehicle they want.. just do not complain about the price of gas when you get 12 to 15 MPG with your vehicle.

Like any thing else.
Meat goes up you eat more beans.
Coke goes up you drink more water.
Gas goes up you complain and buy more and more gas every day.

Just my opinion.
By the way my pickup gets 22 mpg and my wife’s car gets 38 mpg.

R

Oh, BTW, $1.10 Canadian per liter here for regular.