22 Sept. No petrol day

I got this spammed at me from a dozen different addresses - in CAPS LOCK. Don't like people shouting at me for no good reason.

Anyway, 22 September is also CarFree Day:
http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/

http://www.carfree.com/
http://www.carfree.com/cft/

If only t'date could be altered so it could be combin'd with Talk Like a Pirate Day or t' burgeonin' Flying Spaghetti Monsterism cult. Now thar's potentially a winnin' combination that would capture t' populace's imagination. 😄

I'll be cycling to work that day, and it's unlikely that my cage will need fuel on that day anyway.

I still don't see how not buying petrol on one day is going to make a difference. The oil companies know that your typical Aussie will still fill up within a week of Sept 22, and will likely increase the price on those days to make up for whatever they lost.

If people really want to make a statement, they should stop driving to work for a whole week, and clog up the public transport systems. That will get the attention of the govt AND the oil companies.

Just my opinion...

Peka said:

I'll be cycling to work that day, and it's unlikely that my cage will need fuel on that day anyway.

I still don't see how not buying petrol on one day is going to make a difference. The oil companies know that your typical Aussie will still fill up within a week of Sept 22, and will likely increase the price on those days to make up for whatever they lost.

If people really want to make a statement, they should stop driving to work for a whole week, and clog up the public transport systems. That will get the attention of the govt AND the oil companies.

Just my opinion...

how about we just make it everyday?

All this means is everyone puts more petrol in on the 23rd.

Peka said:

I'll be cycling to work that day, and it's unlikely that my cage will need fuel on that day anyway.

I still don't see how not buying petrol on one day is going to make a difference. The oil companies know that your typical Aussie will still fill up within a week of Sept 22, and will likely increase the price on those days to make up for whatever they lost.

If people really want to make a statement, they should stop driving to work for a whole week, and clog up the public transport systems. That will get the attention of the govt AND the oil companies.

Just my opinion...

This the third or fourth time that this kind of thing has gone around, maybe it is the cause of increased petrol prices.

Love the 'activism' that doesn't actual require you to try to change anything!

As the previous poster suggested to affect the oil companies, you need to do more than just not buy petrol, you need to affect your consumption significantly. Ride, run, catch public transport, car share then it will have an effect.

They won't choke on their stockpiles, there are multiple days elasticity in the system between the oil stockpiles at the refinery, at intermediate steps in processing, finished product at the refinery, storage at petrol stations and all the fuel stored in vehicles.

I won't buy petrol on that day, I think my next tank will be needed mid october.

PiledHIgher

Peka said:

I'll be cycling to work that day, and it's unlikely that my cage will
need fuel on that day anyway.

Ditto.

Quoted message said:

I still don't see how not buying petrol on one day is going to make a
difference. The oil companies know that your typical Aussie will still
fill up within a week of Sept 22, and will likely increase the price on
those days to make up for whatever they lost.

Yeah ... this is an excuse for people to bounce useless emails around
the country, and feel good about "doing something" when they're actually
doing sweet stuff all. I'll be very surprised if the bowsers sit idle on
that day, and even more surprised if this "action" achieves anything.

Quoted message said:

If people really want to make a statement, they should stop driving to
work for a whole week, and clog up the public transport systems. That
will get the attention of the govt AND the oil companies.

I'd love to see such a thing happen. Even better would be the gubmint
declaring a given day a "car free" day, and forcing the general
population onto bikes or PT. Ain't gunna happen, though -- either of
them.

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and on Sept 22 everyone put your lunch in the fridge on floor 19! 😉

cheers,
GPL

GPLama said:

and on Sept 22 everyone put your lunch in the fridge on floor 19! 😉

but ... but ... but ... my office building only goes up to the fourth
floor!

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Sell your car.
Change your lifestyle to suit.
Rearrange your priorities.

Do this once & petrol prices will never be problem for you from that point on.

That will make them (petrol pricing people) take notice.

[ odds on bet that the 21st & 23rd will be big fuel up days.....] 🙄

GPLama said:

and on Sept 22 everyone put your lunch in the fridge on floor 19! 😉

cheers,
GPL

but its up here on floor 20, you ejitt! 😉

i think this sad little attempt at populist activism is meant to make the poor sad petrol-buyin gits feel like they have some control over their dumb-[censored] situation, as long as it doesnt involve doing the obvious 🙄

Peka said:

I'll be cycling to work that day, and it's unlikely that my cage will need fuel on that day anyway

Lol, notice how I said 'fuel' and not petrol? My cage is a turbo diesel 🙄 My motorbike does use petrol, but it took a full day of redlining it at the track to make it drink 12.5L/100km 🙂

Marx SS said:

Sell your car.
Change your lifestyle to suit.
Rearrange your priorities.

Heh. I was listening to $local_station on my commute this morning. They
were discussing just that - ring the station to tell everyone how petrol
prices were affecting you.

One person rang in and said that she has to refill her 40l tank twice a
week. She was dealing with this by changing to a cheaper mobile plan and
eating instant noodles at lunch.

Excellent...anything to fuel the cage. She'd rather spend less time
being able to call friends and family, and would rather eat [censored] for
lunch than consider using the car less often.

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2004 Trek 2300 Roadie (9spd Ultegra)
2003 DiamondBack 'Criterium' Roadie (8spd Sora, rain bike)

byron27 said:

Peka said:

I'll be cycling to work that day, and it's unlikely that my cage will
need fuel on that day anyway.

I still don't see how not buying petrol on one day is going to make a
difference. The oil companies know that your typical Aussie will still
fill up within a week of Sept 22, and will likely increase the price on
those days to make up for whatever they lost.

If people really want to make a statement, they should stop driving to
work for a whole week, and clog up the public transport systems. That
will get the attention of the govt AND the oil companies.

Just my opinion...

how about we just make it everyday?

All this means is everyone puts more petrol in on the 23rd.

Stealth motorcycle hasnt been filled with petrol yet. Will wait till I
have people who can help push it to servo. When I filled it last it
was at $1.15 litre 🙂

Peka said:

I'll be cycling to work that day, and it's unlikely that my cage will
need fuel on that day anyway.

I still don't see how not buying petrol on one day is going to make a
difference. The oil companies know that your typical Aussie will still
fill up within a week of Sept 22, and will likely increase the price on
those days to make up for whatever they lost.

If people really want to make a statement, they should stop driving to
work for a whole week, and clog up the public transport systems. That
will get the attention of the govt AND the oil companies.

Just my opinion...

And a damm good opinion too 🙂

Peka said:

Peka said:

I'll be cycling to work that day, and it's unlikely that my cage will
need fuel on that day anywayLol, notice how I said 'fuel' and not petrol? My cage is a turbo diesel

🙄 My motorbike does use petrol, but it took a full day of
redlining it at the track to make it drink 12.5L/100km 🙂

Ummmm
You obviously suffer from sanity. I once ran a VF dry in 50 km on the
GOR. But I was young and silly

flyingdutch said:

At the same time it would hit the entire industry with a net
Loss over 4.6 Billion dollars which affects the bottom lines of the
oil companies.

What the people suggesting this don't realise is that the rise in prices
is an international thing. If local refiners are subject to government
price controls or if people here actually stopped buying fuel for a
day/week, they could just export it instead. The high demand (especially
for refining capacity) along with issues like Katrina etc have driven the
world market price up because demand is greater than supply.

There would be no problem exporting anything refined locally and
being able to sell at world market rates. Do people think China (who's
skyrocketing growth and demand has contributed to the current situation)
are going to participate? Hell, they're just finding out the luxury of
being able to afford your own personal car. Just wait 5 years
until they all want to be two car families - and can you blame them for
wanting this, as stupid and unsustainable as it is? We've known it's not
sustainable for decades, but that hasn's stopped (most of) us.

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1996 Diamond Back 'Expert Tg' Roadie (7spd DT shifters, favourite bike!)
2004 Trek 2300 Roadie (9spd Ultegra)
2003 DiamondBack 'Criterium' Roadie (8spd Sora, rain bike)

flyingdutch said:

GPLama said:

and on Sept 22 everyone put your lunch in the fridge on floor 19! 😉

cheers,
GPL

but its up here on floor 20, you ejitt! 😉

i think this sad little attempt at populist activism is meant to make
the poor sad petrol-buyin gits feel like they have some control over
their dumb-[censored] situation, as long as it doesnt involve doing the
obvious 🙄

theres going to come a point in time where we get to say "we told you
so", but they won't appreciate it.

kim
~ who gets to say told you so at work a bit. they don't like it either.

quote='dave'Peka said:

My motorbike does use petrol, but it took a full day of
redlining it at the track to make it drink 12.5L/100km 🙂

Ummmm
You obviously suffer from sanity. I once ran a VF dry in 50 km on the
GOR. But I was young and silly[/QUOTE]Dunno how you could do that, you must've had a leak 😕 VF750 or 1000? Mine is a '93 VFR750 - some pics of it here pekanet.orgpekanet.orgOpen ↗

Peka said:

dave said:

Peka said:

My motorbike does use petrol, but it took a full day of
redlining it at the track to make it drink 12.5L/100km 🙂

Ummmm
You obviously suffer from sanity. I once ran a VF dry in 50 km on the
GOR. But I was young and sillyDunno how you could do that, you must've had a leak 😕 VF750 or

1000? Mine is a '93 VFR750 - some pics of it here http://pekanet.org

No it was the 500. Black, hot and ratty. I did it cos I was trying
to beat Ian on his GSX1000 and he kept grinding bits of his motorcycle
off and throwing them back at me

They aint all that ecconomical when ridden with the throttle wide open..
its just that normally you only do that for a few seconds 🙂

Kim said:

dtmeister said:

price controls or if people here actually stopped buying fuel for a
day/week, they could just export it instead. The high demand (especially
for refining capacity) along with issues like Katrina etc have driven the
world market price up because demand is greater than supply.

supply and demand is bollocks in this case, it doesn't cost them any
more to make!?!?!

so why *should* the price rise? i mean really?

Of course. It's a conspiracy I tell you! At least with a conspiracy,
someone will eventually fix it and the prices will come down and you can
fuel your V8 again. Heaven help that we might consider that at some
point, I *promise*, world supply will stop keeping up with demand, and
it's downhill from there. But that won't happen to us, will it? Nah,
that's something that will happen in the future, and by then we'll have
fusion and cars that run on water.

Sheesh!

Quoted message said:

where was i going with this ..?

hmmm, oh yeah, chinas consumption of steel... hoooj.

Right.

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1996 Diamond Back 'Expert Tg' Roadie (7spd DT shifters, favourite bike!)
2004 Trek 2300 Roadie (9spd Ultegra)
2003 DiamondBack 'Criterium' Roadie (8spd Sora, rain bike)