I'll be buying gas on May 15th if I need gas. In the end, if you still drive a car, you're still going to need gas. The way to combat it would be to stop consuming it altogether. I think this is a silly idea by reactionaries. It cost me $70 to fill up my tank on Sunday, and I'm PT -- that's about 30% of my paycheck right there. The problem right now lies with supposed refinery issues, and not as much with futures and prices. They say we're only producing 8.5 million gallons or some such amount of gas a day, but
consuming 9 million, so we have to import it and whatnot. No one wants to build refineries because of all the NIMBY types (I don't want to look at it!), not to mention all the costly environmental regulations. The only real thing that could happen would be for government to step in with price controls, but then again, I don't want to sit in line for an hour to save $.20 a gallon. It's a tricky issue, but I really don't think not buying gas on one day is gonna solve a single thing.