Use less gasoline and send powerful message
I’d like to send out a challenge to all residents of the Triad to consider these things:
l There are more than 250 million registered vehicles in the United States (U.S. Department of Transportation figures for 2006). If each of those 250 million cars’ owners spent $10 a week less in gasoline, we would spend $2 billion less weekly on gas. That would offer huge bargaining power as consumers to express our displeasure in these high prices.
l This can be achieved by carpooling or using resources provided by PART (Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation).
l This could speak volumes to the gas companies.
l This could save energy and our reliance on foreign sources.
DeAnna Lawson-Hay
Kernersville
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I don't think so. You would be sending a message to the American oil companies, but the source of that foreign oil wouldn't care. There is more than sufficient demand for oil from the developing countries, such as China and India, that OPEC would have plenty of demand for its oil. You wouldn't bother them too much with your protest.
Posted on June 7, 2008 8:20 AM
Demand for oil has not risen enough to justify massive increase in prices, though part of it relates to the weak dollar. Of course, the dollar has not dropped as much as the price of oil has increased, neither has the demand risen proportionately.
We are being scammed just as we were in the phony "mortgage crisis" which is really a massive transfer of wealth in phony derivatives. This is more of the same.
Posted on June 9, 2008 5:22 PM