please, please, PLEASE don't send me any forwarded email or even mention this idiotic 'american gas-out' garbage. i feel it should be fairly easy to figure out why this movement makes no sense, but it seems that the general populous will do anything that even remotly sounds cool.

not buying gas on three specific days will do nothing. all it will do is increase gas sales a few days before and a few days after, evening out any dip in gas sales during the "profound event". silly!
what will that show OPEC? that we can regulate when some people by their gas, but not how much gas people buy. sillier!

a serious gas-out-esque movement that would actually produce some results would have to entail either carpooling or riding one's bike to work 2-3 times a week for a month. that would actually do something.

furthermore, if i hear any of these suburban/expedition/excursion people piping up in ANY WAY about gas prices, grrr... in the quest for the biggest mammal on the freeway, these housewives have agreed to drive the least efficent, least cost-effective, gas guzzling, brake pad eating vehicles in existance. it's their own fault. mommy has no reason to complain. she should have leased a mini-van.