Interestingly, I've only heard this from word of mouth. On Thursday the 22nd of September 2005, motorists have created a day where they have decided not to fill up their cars, in a protest to oil companies who are becoming right idiots at the moment and jacking up prices through the roof.
How about we cause a big messy stink about it ourselves, people of 4-ch: Don't buy any gas for your car or any other petrochemicals. Screw the oil companies, give us back lower fuel prices. We're sick of paying too much.
Way ahead of you - I don't even own a car!
Way ahead of you - I'm not old enough to drive!
Cool as this would be, I don't have a car.
Not that I like snopes very much, but it says that it's pretty much false. http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp
I go everywhere by foot.
No car, no bus, no tram... nothing.
What's the point when everybody will be back the 23rd to fill'er up?
I assume, since you don't mention it, that this is for the US. Just a reminder: gas in the US is still vastly cheaper than the rest of the Western world.
How about a lose hummers and suv's day?