In April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices.
Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.

On May 15th 2007, all myspace members are asked to not go to a gas station in protest of
high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places.

There are 73,000,000+ American members currently on the myspace network, and the
average car takes about 20 to 30 dollars to fill up.

If all myspace members did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take
$2,200,000,000.00 (that's BILLION) out of the oil companys pockets for just one day,
so please do not go to the gas station on May 15th and lets try to put a dent in the
Middle Eastern oil industry for at least one day.

The next day, don't breathe to protest air pollution...
It's life, deal with it....we drive Hondas, not Excursions, anyway

who cares they know youll just fill up the next day, its a monopoly yet the government doesnt feel the need to regulate it, wonder why hmm

America is dependent on oil, thats the way it is. a better idea would be to ride your bike on the 15th. or maybe car pool if you drive to far. theres many other things you can do to lessen your dependency on petroleum products. for instance you can switch to a non petrol based laundry detergant. now if everyone in myspace did that you would actually accomplish something.

i agree. its life. it is something that will happen and nothing we can do about it. not getting gas for 1 day will not do anything. what would accomplish something is if the 1/4 of the people on myspace found ways to use less fuel or even none for a whole year. 1 month would be better then 1 day. but they know you will need to get gas again within 2 weeks. therefore they peobably would not pay much attention to it but if they did and lowered the price when people start buying again after a few weeks the price will be right back up there again.

i come back from school that day so if i can drive 2.5 hours on a quarter tank then i will do it, otherwise my ass is filling up. then when i get home i will fill my bike up to ride it as well. yes the gas company will lose a lot of money for one day and then make hella profit the next when people fuel up again. we can't do anything about the prices. if it actually did work and would def. lower the prices i would do it.

History repeats iself. If 10 years ago the 'gas out' made prices go down 30 cents,...shit I'd be down for it. How stupid to not do it! What is there to lose?

Option A)

Do it and gas prices stay same: At least you tryed.

Option B)Historical facts:History repeats itself. Gas prices go down, you save money.


Doesn't sound like a bad bargain to me.

they will not stay down. they will lower prices for a few weeks but when people are back to buying the gas the prices get raised again. no matter what we do i doubt we will ever see $2.50 a gallon ever again. the oil companies will not let 1 day of protesting by not buying gas get them frustrated because they know the world is too dependent on gas and has to buy gas again at some point.

they might go down slightly, but no matter what gas will be over $3.50 a gallon by mid june

shit I'd be down for a discount for now then. I suppose the other thing is if people protest NOW and it works even a little, then maybe the same people could keep protesting ( in other ways) and keep seeing results? Hmm

I will keep her outta boost for the 15th to save some gas...and I will not buy any on that day...why not...it is the thought that counts to me. I see lots of fuel trucks coming into Iraq everyday...we need to starrt sending some out!

Price will NOT go down, period.

Ok, so on the 15th no one gets gas.

So what!? They raise the price .10 cents the next day to make up for it!

Try not buying gas for an entire month. It's the only way to actually have a huge impact.

This won't work because today's society is dependent on gas.

People travel 100+ miles a day to and from work!! They NEED gas to get to work.

If people don't get gas for that ONE day, they will either get it before hand, or after wards. The oil companies still win either way.


The idea behind this is great, but it just wont work, period.

The demand is way more than the supply. Rule #1 of economics.

they could just lower the price like 5-10 cents on the 15th to lure in anyone that either didnt know or didnt care then raise the price the 16th 5-10 cents over what it was just to get all the people that didnt buy.

what you guys should be doing is pushing the development of alternative fuels such as e85 and try to reduce the amount of petroleum products you use. its more than just gas you know.

finally some people that agree with me that gas prices will most likely not go down by doing this. like i said earlier and like another guy said if you want this to make an impact get a few hundred people to not buy gas for a month. we are to dependent on gas. i drive about 25 miles to and from work. i am just as dependent on gas just as much as everyone else on this board and the rest of the world especially the USA. if you really want too see gas prices go down then invest a couple million and develop your own alternative fuel and market it. or just go buy E85 vehicles. the eastern part of the US might not have it yet but we will within 2 years. until then we will have to deal with it.

The only problem with E85 is that it's still not a total solution. But a good start mind you I will agree though that this may or may not affect prices. But hey its worth a shot.

the major problem with e85 is i cant get it yet

but yeah i mean the solution isnt to reinvent the wheel here, we dont need to be driving around in big RC cars, we need to find other fuels that offset our huge demand on dino gas. implementing biodiesel for comercial vehicles and ethanol for consumer use would go a long way.

i understand we dont even have the land to grow enough corn to make all the e85 we need but if we had to import corn i still see it being better than importing oil.

i work in a auto center with alot of fleed management accounts(IE molly maids has a fleet management company who has a shop..) and there is so many f_cking commercial cars rollin' around it aint funny

this would be a great idea, i agree but if the gas companys lost that much money they could just as well RAISE the price to make up for the loss and punnish everyone. i still wont buy fuel that day regretfully only because i wont need to. but it definately hurts putting 40$ in my teg for 13 gallons of petrol. americans need to realize that we are the cause for all of this and until we find a way to do business and travel a cleaner way we will continue to suffer. i for one pledge to make a change for better. any way i can.

Petrol? What, are you having buttered scones with your afternoon tea too, old chap? BTW that's a fine "horseless carriage" you've got there....

aww bloody 'ell, it seems you've ripped me a new arse 'ol boy. pip pip, an tanks fer tha pat on the 'ol back mate, she is a fine carriage she is. now back to my tea...

don't forget your scrumpets with your tea