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Today is the day that millions of forwarded messages told you not to buy gas. The message tells you that the oil companies have artificially inflated prices and that they’ll lose so much money today they’ll drop prices to <insert price here>. It even worked in 1997!

Of course, the e-mail is crap. It’s been circulating since 1999 according to Snopes. As the date approaches, more and more people forward the message around and then promptly forget it. Hardly anyone takes them seriously and even if they did, it would never work.

See, even if no one bought gas for one day they would have to buy it eventually. All the gas that would be sold today will be sold tomorrow. The only thing that would happen is that there would be longer lines for gas tomorrow. There are two ways to lower gas prices: find more oil or use less gas. If you’re not doing one of those two things you can’t change gas prices.

If you get the message delete it immediately. Actually, that’s a good theory for any forwards that you get. You can check Snopes but 99.99% of them are fake so just delete them and move on.

Oh, and buy as much gas as you want today.