Quote Originally Posted by yungdz
Someone just told me why gas prices were going up. Something because the companies are getting cocky and just choose to jack them up. That one day a year thing where we are supposed to boycott the stations doesnt hurt them. Instead if we want to hurt them, we just need to boycott certain companies until they go out of business. They will be forced to lower there prices and then the other companies will be forced to lower their's as well in order to compete.
A boycott is not going to work, gas prices are generally set by OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) These seperate countries collude to set the price of a barrel of oil. So even if you boycott one company you are still consuming the same supply going with a different company.

The real problem is lobbyists in Washington. Big industry has a stronghold on the legislative and executive branch of government and as the original poster said, the people need to start pressuring their elected officials to come up with a solution.