How can you help lower gas prices?

[pwb]

This may hurt some of you, but we have to do it.

Stop going to sports events. i mean all sports events, football, baseball, hockey, bowling, children's indoor and outdoor soccer, Nascar racing and any others that i missed.

The rich owners need to be hurt by these high gas prices then you will see action.

Cut back on driving however you can. We can do it...
put on your seat belt before you start your car. avoid warm ups. turn off your car at long red lights. keep tires properly inflated, and so on.

Anything you can think of please advise. thanks

[Sherman A1]

1. Some of this is already happening

as some Retailer are reporting lower sales. The problem with your suggestion (and I absolutely loath sports) is that real people there and at the store, need those real and not so great jobs to make their living or at least part if it. I totally agree with taking every measure we can to save every drop of gasoline, but a boycott of a sector of the economy isn't perhaps the best idea. What if everyone boycotted the product or service that you provided? Would your employer need you anymore?

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Sell your car

When you need to walk, bike or plan bus trips around a schedule, it is amazing how many trips become unnecessary. If your city has one available, join a car coop such as FlexCar.

[Sapere aude]

3. Drive less, use less gas. Lower demand.

Walk, ride a bike, ride a motorcycle, take public transportation, stay home.

[Critters2]

23. Yeah, but that would be so, well, reasonable.

I'd rather ask congress to do something so that I can continue wasting fuel. :)

[MADem]

4. Sports events? You take the T to Fenway Park (assuming you could get a ticket) and

how does staying home make a diff?

All that does is let some other baaastid have my seat!!! IF I could get a ticket!!!!

NASCAR I can understand. But a lot of baseball venues are in the city. A lot of fans come by bus so they can get hammered at the paaaaaaaahk.

Bowling? I didn't realize the balls were gas powered.

Cutting back on driving makes sense. But using public transport or carpooling with others to go out and have fun is a smarter way to do it.

[pwb]

6. city people do have public transportation.

i am in the boonies and sporting events require driving including bowling.

[truebrit71]

5. Fart in a piggy bank....

...oh no, wait, that's "How do you save Gas"....?

:evilgrin:

Don't mind me....

[eleny]

7. It's the thing to do

Being retired, I have naturally cut way back on driving. 200 gallons a year on average these past 9 years.

So, now, I need more tactics. The latest one is to go back to imagining the raw egg between the foot and the gas pedal. And I don't watch the tire inflation as often as I could. Thanks for that reminder.

What you advise here may all sound like old news - but I appreciate the reminders.

[pwb]

8. i retired recently also.

thanks for the input. we have to fight back somehow.

[eleny]

21. It depends so much on where you live

Country people have a harder time accomplishing deep cut backs. Hubby and I were considering moving to the mountains (we now live just west of Denver in an older suburb). But when I look at the map with miles of winding roads I can hear the ding-ding of the gas pump. So often I take a quick run to the library or to pick up something at the store. I can easily switch to walking for those jaunts. No can do if we moved further west into the hills. So we've decided to stay put and remodel.

Btw, happy retirement!

[GumboYaYa]

9. This is so simple, use less gas.

Just stop driving everywhere. Ride a bike for shorter trips, plan to run all your errands at one time, stop going to the grocery store for a few things (shop once a week), car pool with friends when possible.....

[pwb]

10. your right it is simple

and it will work

[gravity]

11. Exactly

The price of gas would fall rapidly if we all just used a little less gas.

The problem is that gas would be cheap again so we will buy more, starting the cycle over again.

[LSK]

15. bingo!

Even the industry expert testified that if we raised CAFE standards, then the refinery capacity would not be so overloaded.

[blues90]

12. I don't know if this will lower gas prices at all .

If less is sold the price may go up , I know this sounds odd but they may shut down more refineries .

You can cut back , everyone can . I have always had a thing about planning my stops and avoiding left turns , doing anything to save on fuel . Fuel is something that you buy and see no benefit from , it's gone once it's burned and once it's burned the air is more polluted .

I see many people wasting so much fuel just in the way they drive in spurts from stops or at drive through fast food dumps . Moving cars during street cleaning days , so many ways .

I really don't think most people are even aware of how they drive and what waste they create , perhaps driving instruction should include how not to waste fuel .

People in sothern calif used to walk alot years ago , we still have sidewalks but no walkers for the most part .

[pwb]

13. the refineries do have us by the balls

good point

[Blue-Jay]

14. Be a smarter driver.

Plan your trips to the store. Go to multiple places in one large trip, as opposed to many small ones.
Keep off your gas pedal. Don't "floor it" unless you need to avoid an accident.
Buy more groceries, as opposed to making multiple trips.
Ride your bike more often or walk.
Keep your tires filled up, and your oil changed.
Jonesing for a smoke? Walk your ass to the Quickie-Mart to get more cigs.
Don't speed.
Don't ride someone's ass. Keep your distance.
Plan your route so that you'll hit fewer stoplights. (The less momentum you lose, the more gas you save.)
Take public transportation, if available.
Carpool, if you can.
Learn to change your own spark plugs. It's really easy to do!
Try to stay under 2000 RPM when you're driving in the city. (Gradual acceleration)
Park in the first place you see in a parking lot. Driving around the lot for a "primo place" wastes gas.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Ride on the Hampton Jitney instead of driving to The Hamptons . . .

[RC]

17. Nationalized the oil companies.

Commandeer the obscene profits and use that money for research into alternative energy sources.

[radfringe]

18. don't top off the gas tank

set a limit for yourself either by gallons or in dollars

I have a 13 gallon tank - I only fill it 1/2-way, it's enough to get me to work and back

my partner does the grocery shopping on friday after work - the stores we go to are closer to her work place so it saves a trip into "the city" on the weekends. I do the banking and other errands on friday's on the way home from work as I drive through our local town anyways to get home

plan your shopping and errands for the shortest routes and "bundle" them together

open a window in the car instead of using air conditioning if possible.

[A wise Man]

19. With the rate of these high prices

we can't help but to cut back on everything. We are being boxed in by these oil mogrels.

[pwb]

20. Good advice from all. thank you

[Az]

22. Why continue the dependence on Oil?

The corporations are not going to budge and change the products they produce unless the demand for them drops significantly and demand for a different sort of vehicle comes into play. That is they will only respond to extremes of the supply/demand curve. And they are actively working to see to it that demand for their current vehicles stays high.

The corporations control our government to such a degree that we no longer can regulate them into compliance. That being the case the only thing we seem to be able to do is affect the citizenry with laws. To that extent if we want to affect the consumption of oil in this nation we need to tax the living snot out of it. Yes this will have the most impact on the poor but I don't know that the world has any other options at this time.