This is not a gas price chain letter
Signing a petition, not buying gas for a day, or only buying from certain companies will NOT lowe gas prices. I'll try not to go on any tangents here...
If you don't like the way gas prices are, change the way you live to consume less gas. It's sorta like the only true weight loss. If you "go on a diet", you're basically saying you'll change the way you eat for a little while, then go back to being unhealthy. The only proven weight loss method is a lifestyle change of eating less and exercising. Gas consumption is along the same line. If you just delay when you fill up your tank by a day, a company is still getting your money. But if people, over a prolonged period of time, demonstrate less of a need for gas, prices will drop. It's supply and demand. It's capitalism, like it or not.
Are prices being gouged? Of course they are. But these gas companies have one main goal: to make money. As long as people show they're still willing to pay the price being asked, companies will continue to raise the price, as if continually testing the water the further in you go.
Bottom line, we're still a capitalist country. That means the market is consumer driven. Don't like it? Buy a bike.
If you don't like the way gas prices are, change the way you live to consume less gas. It's sorta like the only true weight loss. If you "go on a diet", you're basically saying you'll change the way you eat for a little while, then go back to being unhealthy. The only proven weight loss method is a lifestyle change of eating less and exercising. Gas consumption is along the same line. If you just delay when you fill up your tank by a day, a company is still getting your money. But if people, over a prolonged period of time, demonstrate less of a need for gas, prices will drop. It's supply and demand. It's capitalism, like it or not.
Are prices being gouged? Of course they are. But these gas companies have one main goal: to make money. As long as people show they're still willing to pay the price being asked, companies will continue to raise the price, as if continually testing the water the further in you go.
Bottom line, we're still a capitalist country. That means the market is consumer driven. Don't like it? Buy a bike.