A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2006 Help bring down the price of gas!

This is a quote taken from the American Family Association Action Alert. If you would like to start recieving e-mails from this association, PM me and I will give you the link.

This is another idea I've heard. Stop buying gas from the biggest suppliers: Exxon Mobile. They have the power to set the price so that smaller companies have to compete. If they lose enough business, they will be forced to lower the price they charge, which will cause a ripple effect to all the other oil and gas suppliers.
I do not buy gas from these suppliers anymore, even if it means paying a few cents extra at a smaller company!

I have been so guilty of being a gas hawg...
...that I'm embarrassed to admit it.

I have 2 vehicles that I drive.
One is an Avalanche and one is a '93 Toyota pick-up.
I don't even want to admit what kind of gas mileage the Avalanche gets, but the Toyota gets over 30 mpg.
When gas prices started going up I would say "I'm going to start driving the Toyota more often to save on gas." But, I'd go outside to get in it...then look over at the Avalanche...and think "Gee, I would much rather drive THAT!" So, I'd drive it! (After all...it wasn't me paying for the gas!)

A little over a week ago I decided that I was NOT going to be a gas hawg anymore (no matter who was paying for it)...and I started driving the Toyota. I have driven it everywhere since then...and I am on the same tank of gas that I had over a week ago. That gas would have been long gone many times over if I'd driven the Avalanche.


I'll be doing my part...I promise.
(...until G-Mom and Vanessa get here. The Toyota is a one-person vehicle. There is only enough room in it for me and my purse and Mr. Wonderful!)

If I could afford the gas I would rather drive an SUV too!

My dream vehicle is a Chevy Blazer, fully loaded with all the bells and whistles.

I drive a little 2 door Escort now. It gets pretty good gas mileage.

Another idea I just thought of is to use the gas treatment and also the gas/fuel injection treatment. I've been told too, to keep up with the scheduled maintenance, that will help get better gas mileage.
My car is in desperate need of a tune-up and transmission fluid flush.

Just got this in an email from Don's secretary - thought you'd appreciate it here.

That's a good one Lynne. Another way to save fuel but it is difficult. Is to minimize the amount of air conditioning you use in the car. At least I know that's true of the older models. The new ones with fuel injection and computer parts I'm not at all sure of. Since I don't drive I don't keep up with all the information like I used to when I did drive.

Lynne, that is so funny!

Good one Lynne!

Cindy, I drive a Toyota Camry and I get good gas mileage with it. I love it!

I am still driving my 1988 4-cylinder, 740GLE Volvo. Even though it is 18 years old, it only has 70,000 miles on it. A tank of gas lasts me anywhere from 6 to 8 wks.

Good grief!
Do you do a lot of driving?

Here's another tip I've heard about.

"I'm implementing this starting today... no more filling up at the pump for me!!!! This will help all of us who live in US. This makes a lot of sense ~ read to the end!!!
A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the grocery store he pays .60 cents a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won't last a week he normally buys two dozen at a time.
One day while buying eggs he notices that the price has risen to 72 cents. The next time he buys groceries, eggs are .76 cents a dozen.
When asked to explain the price of eggs the store owner says, "The price has gone up and I have to raise my price accordingly. This store buys 100 dozen eggs a day. I checked around for a better price and all the distributors have raised their prices. The distributors have begun to buy from the huge egg farms. The small egg farms have been driven out of business. The huge egg farms sells 100,000 dozen eggs a day to distributors. With no competition, they can set the price as they see fit. The distributors then have to raise their prices to the grocery stores.” And on and on and on.
As the man kept buying eggs the price kept going up. He saw the big egg trucks delivering 100 dozen eggs each day. Nothing changed there. He checked out the huge egg farms and found they were selling 100,000 dozen eggs to the distributors daily. Nothing had changed but the price of eggs.
Then week before Thanksgiving the price of eggs shot up to $1.00 a dozen. Again he asked the grocery owner why and was told, "cakes and baking for the holiday". The huge egg farmers know there will be a lot of baking going on and more eggs will be used. Hence, the price of eggs goes up. Expect the same thing at Christmas and other times when family cooking, baking, etc.happen.
This pattern continues until the price of eggs is 2.00 a dozen. The man says,"there must be something we can do about the price of eggs". He starts talking to all the people in his town and they decide to stop buying eggs. This didn't work because everyone needed eggs. Finally, the man suggested only buying what you need.
He ate 2 eggs a day. On the way home from work he would stop at the grocery store and buy two eggs. Everyone in town started buying 2 or 3 eggs a day.
The grocery store owner began complaining that he had too many eggs in his cooler. He told the distributor that he didn't need any eggs. Maybe wouldn't need any all week.
The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. He told the huge egg farms that he didn't have any room for eggs would not need any for at least two weeks.
At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs. To relieve the pressure, the huge egg farm told the distributor that they could buy the eggs at a lower price. The distributor said, " I don't have the room for the eggs even if they were free".
The distributor told the grocery store owner that he would lower the
price of the eggs if the store would start buying again. The grocery store owner said, "I don't have room for more eggs. The customers are only buy 2 or 3 eggs at a time". "Now if you were to drop the price of eggs back down to the original price, the customers would start buying by the dozen again".
The distributors sent that proposal to the huge egg farmers. They liked the price they were getting for their eggs but, them chickens just kept on laying. Finally, the egg farmers lowered the price of their eggs. But only a few cents. The customers still bought 2 or 3 eggs at a time. They said, "when the price of eggs gets down to where it was before, we will start buying by the dozen."
Slowly the price of eggs started dropping. The distributors had to slash their prices to make room for the eggs coming from the egg farmers.
The egg farmers cut their prices because the distributors wouldn't buy at a higher price than they were selling eggs for. Anyway, they had full warehouses and wouldn't need eggs for quite a while.
And them chickens kept on laying.
Eventually, the egg farmers cut their prices because they were throwing away eggs they couldn't sell. The distributors started buying again because the eggs were priced to where the stores could afford to sell them at the lower price.
And the customers starting buying by the dozen again.
Now, transpose this analogy to the gasoline industry.
What if everyone only bought $10.00 worth of gas each time they pulled to the pump. The dealers tanks would stay semi full all the time. The dealers wouldn't have room for the gas coming from the huge tank farms. The tank farms wouldn't have room for the gas coming from the refining plants. And the refining plants wouldn't have room for the oil being off loaded from the huge tankers coming from the Middle East.
Just $10.00 each time you buy gas. Don't fill it up. You may have to stop for gas twice a week but, the price should come down.
Think about it.
As an added note...When I buy $10.00 worth of gas,that leaves my tank a little under half full. The way prices are jumping around, you can buy gas for $2.65 a gallon and then the next morning it can be $2.15. If you have your tank full of $2.65 gas you don't have room for the $2.15 gas. You might not understand the economics of only buying two eggs at a time but you can't buy cheaper gas if your tank is full of the high priced stuff. Also, don't buy anything else at the gas station, don't give them any more of your hard earned money than what you spend on gas, until the prices come down..
**_Everyone should read this and send it on! _**"

Becky, I saved this link several weeks ago because I didn't have time to read it when you posted it... and it got lost in my rubble until I found it just now.

Darn! I wish I'd have read it sooner! I've been filling up all this time, although I only have to do that about twice a month... (but today I filled up for $2.98/gallon, which just must be the lowest price in the whole country right now!)

Your last post here was long, but WORTH THE READ! I hope that more people will take the time to read it, think about it, & ACT on it! (It made sense to me, so I'm sure the concept won't be too much of a challenge for other people!)

Thanks for bringing this up!

(By the way... I noticed recently that canned Tuna has jumped up 20 cents from where it has been for about 6 years! I think Cindy needs to stock that pond of hers & do her own fishing for a while.... the price hike hasta be HER fault!)

So true, Patty!
I just noticed that the price of the tiny cans of catfood we buy has jumped 10 cents a can as well!!! This is not good, as we use 3 cans each night! Other items have jumped as well - when is this all going to stop?

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="COMIC SANS MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="3" face="COMIC SANS MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Patty S:
<strong> (By the way... I noticed recently that canned Tuna has jumped up 20 cents from where it has been for about 6 years!

I bought 20 cans of tuna yesterday!
That should last, oh, at least a week!

Ummm Maybe when people start buying $10 worth of gas, 2 eggs, & ONE CAN OF TUNA at a time!

(Just remember how Supply and Demand works... you demand it & they'll gladly supply it... at a higher price!)

the price of gas at my favorite station was $2.49/gal last night. i didn't need gas, i had gotten it for $2.50 the night before, but i usually try this station first. it isn't a true independent, but as close as it gets here, and it isn't "big petroleum"

I've heard on the news that the price of everything is going up due to the increasing price of fuel.

And the government keeps investigating if it's a case a "price gouging!"
Well DUH!
Who are the richest people in the world?!?!?!?!
Big oil execs!