For lower gas prices-would you do it?

[3Hotdogs]

An answer would be, "Stay At Home Sunday. One day where everyone keeps their car in the garage or on the driveway. One Sunday a month.

The problem is, not enough supply for the demand. So, lower the demand.

Would yo do it?

[NJCher]

1. yes, even more

odd/even days

[pidge]

2. Yes.

[Blue Owl]

3. No problemo

[SheltieLover]

4. I stay home most days.

Sure.

[lapfog_1]

5. I stay home all the time

The pandemic changed my company into a "work from home" company. We recently reopened offices for those who are vaccinated and boosted. But we are a "work from anywhere" company now. So long as I have a decent internet connection... I'm good.

I will miss the discounted lunches in the company cafeteria. But honest I usually eat better at home. I am more productive... those 8am meetings no longer stress me out (when do I get up to drive in to work... what will traffic be today, etc). I save my commute time, wear and tear on my car. And my once a month fill ups to gas the car
for the occasional trip to the store or haircuts really don't bother me, although the last
such fill up was $6.15 a gallon.

I wish we could all live this way, perhaps someday we will.

And I hope to buy an electric car in the not distant future too.

I do miss the occasional face to face meeting. But really, not that much.

Doing my part to reduce demand, save the planet, and screw the oil companies!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Would it actually matter?

I'm reminded of the thing a decade or so back encouraging people not to buy gas from some particular provider. However, it didn't matter, because the gas stations would get gas from other providers, so the not buying made zero difference.

I don't drive very much myself. I get gas about once a month. It would honestly be very hard to reduce that much, as I simply don't do any frivolous driving. I go to the grocery store. I go to a clothing store. I rarely drive just for pleasure. So for me, staying home one Sunday a month wouldn't make much difference.

[Mr.Bill]

7. They'll raise prices

to make up for the smaller demand. In fact, it's really what they're doing now. Trying to make up for the loss in business due to the pandemic.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

22. "They'll raise prices ..."

They'll raise prices to make up for the smaller demand. In fact, it's really what they're doing now. Trying to make up for the loss in business due to the pandemic.

That's not how that works.

[Dial H For Hero]

8. Honestly...no. If I want/need to go somewhere, I'm going to drive there.

In any case, such a policy would be almost completely ignored if voluntary, and incredibly unpopular if enforced.

[3Hotdogs]

25. Need is one thing. Want, is different.

It would never be an enforced program. It would be a voluntary protest.

[Dial H For Hero]

32. As a protest it accomplishes nothing.

Suppose one doesn’t go grocery shopping on a particular Sunday. It would simply be done on another day beforehand or afterwards instead.

It’s like those silly proposals not to buy gas on a certain day.

[3Hotdogs]

34. The reason gas prices were lower during pandemic was because people weren't driving.

Gas piled up in the storage tanks. Oilfutures , on the commodity exchange sank into (-). All that was because people weren't driving.

One or two days a month of people driving less, will cause a surplus of gas in storage tanks.

[Dial H For Hero]

36. The pandemic had a massive effect on people's behavior.

It doesn’t exactly compare to a protest movement that not one person in a hundred will participate in.

[Deuxcents]

9. The fear of getting sick for so long changed so many things

Driving is one of them..I’m home most of the time anymore so I’ll pay it forward for someone who can’t participate.

[mwooldri]

10. Like the idea but I'm a truck driver.

I drive on all days ending with the letter "Y".

Right now there's a diesel shortage. Inventories are very low. Love's are warning they might have supply issues on the east coast soon. This is causing diesel prices to spike. At this rate demand destruction will be the only thing that will ease things IMO.

[roamer65]

13. This is why I have a flex fuel vehicle in my her

When there’s a big line for E10 eventually, I can bypass it and get E85.

Since the hydrocarbon chain lengths overlap a bit between gasoline and diesel, I expect refineries soon to cut production of gasoline and use the overlapping hydrocarbons for diesel instead of gasoline.

[onecaliberal]

11. Yes.

Easy peasy.

[roamer65]

12. No.

If gas is going to be rationed, we need it to be official rationing to be fair for all.

Stickers on the car windows and gas ration coupons like WW2.

Otherwise, let the price be the rationing scheme.

[3Hotdogs]

27. I'm talking about a "citizen protest.

Not a gub'mint program.

[3Hotdogs]

31. I'm talking about a "citizen protest.

Not a gub'mint program.

[DFW]

14. We rarely stay at home. It's the nature of the beast.

I have to be in at least four countries a week for work, but the train system here is usually good enough to permit me to do it by train. Not so if I need to go to Spain for the day. Two hour flight vs. a 24 hour train trip.

My wife’s mom, who is 95 and nearly blind, needs frequent visits, though, and she lives in a village two and a half hours by car from us, and the town has no public transportation at all that goes there. If you don’t have a car or horse, you are SOL. My wife makes the trip once or twice a month.

On the other hand, there are often weeks when neither one of us uses a car for three or four days out of the week. Some of us just don’t have regular schedules.

[orleans]

15. that's not gonna lower gas prices

big oil doesn't want dems in charge of their circus so they're gonna fuck us no matter what we do (and blame it on biden)

hartmann wrote an essay about big oil on thursday -- "Why are Americans Subsidizing Our Own Extinction?"

i put up a thread and a snip of what he wrote here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216686505

[JI7]

16. It would be better to focus on alternative energy sources

specifically cleaner energy . And just improving things overall .

[Iggo]

17. But mah free-dumbs!!!

Ur, duhr, derpa-derp, duhr.

[3Hotdogs]

28. I'm not talking about a gub'mint program.

I mean a citizens' protest.

[Emile]

18. Being retired, I'm home almost all the time.

So no problem for me.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

19. No, if I need to go somewhere I will. Sundays is visit the parents day anyway

Both my wife and I want our parents to have as much time with their grandkids as they can, while they still can. So every Sunday we spend the afternoon with them and have dinner together. We alternate of course, since her parents live in the opposite direction of mine. Nothing will change that. Gas could be $10/gallon and we'd still be going.

[3Hotdogs]

29. Need is one thing. Wants can be put off or substituted.

[2naSalit]

20. I stay home almost every Sunday.

And most other days.

[Scrivener7]

21. I live in a walking town. My bike is sufficient for most errands. My hybrid

car is only used for longer trips.

[Tanuki]

23. I can just imagine the push-back from already vocal aggrieved Christians

who claim they are being victimized.

[Emile]

24. They're so persecuted. .

[3Hotdogs]

30. I don't mean a gub'mint program.

I mean a citizen protest.

[Tanuki]

37. It doesn't have to be a govt program....look at how triggered they get

when a store clerk wishes them a "Happy Holiday" instead of a "Merry Christmas!"

[hlthe2b]

26. I already do... Generally Saturdays too.

[Raine]

33. That's the usual for me I usually avoid going out

on weekends.

[AngryOldDem]

35. Absolutely, yes.

This is the kind of stuff they did in WWII. But that’s too much of a “sacrifice” in this day and age.

Hell, AFAIC, that would be a privilege rather than a duty. Any day I don’t drive is a good day — for many reasons.

[Roland99]

38. Exercise in futility

[Liberal In Texas]

39. I'll only drive my EV.

People need to start getting the demand up for electric vehicles. I had an electrician I hired installing a 220 outlet for my charger ask me why buy an EV when gas is so cheap. That's the mentality with most Americans right now.