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Dave 2 <dave2@infowave.cutoffs.net> writes:


>No, quite the opposite.  The biggest inventory of gasoline in a big city is
>with us, in our collective gas tanks.  *THAT* is where our power lies, and we
>in Vancouver have been using this power fairly effectively to help keep prices
>low.  We've been in an on-and-off gaswar since August of '98.  We have learned
>to keep our gas tanks FULL at all times when the price is low.   Then, when
>the gas companies increase the price (in unison, as usual), *we* have the
>power to increase the supply at the stations, as we all have full tanks,
>"nobody" needs to buy gas for a few days to a week.  Sometimes after the price
>increases gas stations look like they have tumbleweeds drifting through them,
>they are so empty.  That doesn't just _look_ like a reduction in demand, it
>_is_ a reduction in demand.  Sure enough, the price will start to drop.  Just
>last week we had prices driven down to 49.9  (pretty high for Vancouver, from
>Aug 98 to April 99 the prices were in the 36.9 to 39.9 range; cheapest I saw
>was 28.5)

Now, *this* is the best suggestion I've seen yet...I'm not sure what the size
of Vancover is right now, but if its as big as I seem to recall, *how* did
you organize enough ppl to make a difference?  

I ride a motorcycle, which tends to be pretty good on gas, and tend to try 
and do similar down here, except that I'm "only one" :(  Went into Halifax
to visit the gf this weekend...filled up before I left Wolfville (61.9 for
full serve), drove into Halifax (68.9) and back on that tank of gas.  But,
being just one, and a bike only holds ~$5-7 worth of gas, it doesn't make
much of a dent...

>> Hitch hike with a sign saying "Saving gas".  Bike. Walk. Stay home.

>Dangerous, can be dangerous, walked halfway across Europe (it seems), boring.

hitch hiking...isn't it also illegal?

>> Don't 'cruise' or sight see.

>Don't really "cruise", per se (driving up and down the same strip on a summer
>night?)  

>Sorry, not giving up "sightseeing"  

Agreed...we are trying to get the station vendors to reduce the cost of gas,
reduce sightseeing, you reduce revenues, and reduce employment...:(
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