# Back to basics of fighting ignorance, starting with Thursday's "no gas day" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390 "2011-03-29T15:34:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/1 "2011-03-29T15:34:31Z")
This just makes me so unbelievably frustrated and sad. > **[Log in or sign up to view](https://www.facebook.com/events/158856697501684/)** > > See posts, photos and more on Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/2 "2011-03-29T15:41:50Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/3 "2011-03-29T15:42:47Z")
Why? Didn’t the Montgomery bus boycott achieve its goals in one day? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/4 "2011-03-29T15:43:05Z")
Mind summarizing the issue, for those of us not fortunate enough to have discovered Facebook or fortunate enough to have given it up? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/5 "2011-03-29T15:46:23Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Mind summarizing the issue, for those of us not fortunate enough to have discovered Facebook or fortunate enough to have given it up? Yeah, if the link makes the OP “unbelievably frustrated and sad” **I’m** not going to click it. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/6 "2011-03-29T15:49:14Z")
If it’s the same as the “No Gas Days” that have been going around the Internet for the past, oh, 10 years at least, then the concept is that in order to protest high gas prices, you don’t buy gas for a day. This is about as effective as it sounds. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/7 "2011-03-29T15:50:33Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > If it’s the same as the “No Gas Days” that have been going around the Internet for the past, oh, 10 years at least, then the concept is that in order to protest high gas prices, you don’t buy gas for a day. > > This is about as effective as it sounds. Having clicked on the link, yup, that’s what it is. But now with the Power Of Facebook! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/8 "2011-03-29T15:55:48Z")
Sigh. Now I’ll have to devote part of my class period to squashing this moronic idea among my students. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/9 "2011-03-29T15:57:16Z")
I could get behind a “No Facebook day.” Or week. Or month. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/10 "2011-03-29T15:58:24Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > I could get behind a “No Facebook day.” Or week. Or month. Go right ahead. Nobody’s stopping you. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/11 "2011-03-29T16:31:30Z")
I could get behiind “No Lame One-Line Posts with Undescribed Links to Places That Most of Us Can’t Access from Work” Day. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/12 "2011-03-29T16:59:43Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > If it’s the same as the “No Gas Days” that have been going around the Internet for the past, oh, 10 years at least, then the concept is that in order to protest high gas prices, you don’t buy gas for a day. > > This is about as effective as it sounds. Awesome. That means I won’t have to wait for anyone to get gas. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/13 "2011-03-29T17:11:57Z")
Well I for one will not be buying any gas on Thursday because I actually care about this country and the values it stands for and I will not fall into the trap of falling prey to the muslims and their plans to have people buy gas on Thursday. Besides I just filled up my tank this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/14 "2011-03-29T18:56:33Z")
Awesome. I declare April to be no internet month! I’ll post updates occassionally to let you know how it’s going. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/15 "2011-03-29T21:00:31Z")
I’ve seen a second one that recognizes that this is stupid, and instead tells you to buy all your gas from local shops rather than the big companies. They hate it when I ask “And where to they get their gas? Do they make it themselves?” Okay, so I’m a little nicer than that, but you get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/16 "2011-03-30T00:38:13Z")
They should come to Japan. Plenty of “no gas” days right now. Pity it doesn’t seem to be affecting the prices. Here in Hokkaido we can get 20 litres at a time but it’s past ¥150 per litre. Honshu has been hit by harder rationing and the same prices. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/17 "2011-03-30T01:59:39Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I’ve seen a second one that recognizes that this is stupid, and instead tells you to buy all your gas from local shops rather than the big companies. They hate it when I ask “And where to they get their gas? Do they make it themselves?” They probably distill it from hemp. Damn hippies. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/18 "2011-03-30T02:09:24Z")
I propose a national “I’d Rather Feel Good Than Do Good Day” page that would link to all these useless efforts. It would have a large picture of a guy with a finger up his nose and the caption “At least I’m doing _something_!” ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/19 "2011-03-30T12:48:11Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I propose a national “I’d Rather Feel Good Than Do Good Day” page that would link to all these useless efforts. It would have a large picture of a guy with a finger up his nose and the caption “At least I’m doing _something_!” Like. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390/20 "2011-03-30T14:15:55Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > They hate it when I ask “And where to they get their gas? Do they make it themselves?” There was a guy not too far from me who was [busted for making and selling biodiesel](http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/breaking/wb/110583) a few years ago. Maybe if we gave such folks a break on the fuel tax… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-basics-of-fighting-ignorance-starting-with-thursdays-no-gas-day/576390.md?page=2)