Just when you think there's relief

[Ragnar4]

Less time driving, and more time walking causes oil prices to go down because they can't move their liquid gold at that price. A concerted effort would fiscally destroy the oil companies if we hung on for something like a week.

finally, a response that is totally unrealistic and wouldn't change anything since we would be right back to it a week later

In 2001 America tried to react to soaring gas prices with a "National gas out day" For 2 months spam mail went out, websites were dedicated to the idea and a few politicians even supported it. The idea? Don't buy gas for a day. Even though I disagreed with the idea on it's level under the same argument spoon, I didn't buy gas that day.

For my argument and ethics class in College I decided the next year to run case against that idea for my Parli debate squirrell case (A case that is really hard to pin down, you use it against solid but aggressive opponents, so it comes out of left field and they don't know how to attack it).

Problem is, after some pretty exhaustive research, I discovered through, charts and analysis, that for the next 3 months we saw a 25 cent decrease for our gas prices across the board. On average a 1.50 per gallon rate came down 16.5 percent.

If my opponents had that piece of evidence, they would have destroyed me. I still ran the case, but I only ran it once, and won.

I'm not entirely sure how you can argue that Oil companies only make 2-6% profit when they cleared the kinds of dollars that they cleared last quarter... But I haven't looked it up. I could imagine a 12-20% profit with the kinds of numbers that you posted, and only the fat-cats would suffer with a national gas out for a week.

In fact the weakest link in the idea is the consumer.

Gas sales were only down 41% that day.