National Gas Protest DontDriveOnSunday.com Continues June 4th.

National Gas Protest DontDriveOnSunday.com Continues June 4th.

More Groups Calling for Citizens to Park Their Cars in Protest of Gas Prices.

Columbia, Missouri, Wednesday, May 31, 2006. The national campaign protesting high gas prices, DontDriveOnSunday.com, asks Americans to park their cars again on Sunday, June 4th, and do nothing… just Don’t Drive On Sunday. The campaign continues with National Rally Dates this Sunday, June 4th, June 18th, and July 2nd.

More groups are calling upon citizens to fight the high price of gasoline by parking their cars. The American Public Transportation Association is holding a “Dump The Pump” day on Thursday, June 8. Their web site, www.publictransportation.org, encourages Americans to use public transportation on June 8th as “…the quickest way to beat high gas prices.”

Groups have organized to coordinate boycotts of the major oil companies. Still others advocate using alternative fuels such as Ethanol and Hydrogen. Many people offer differing solutions to beat the high cost of gasoline, but the sentiment remains the same. Americans are fed up with the profiteering by the oil companies, and the rampant corruption in our political system that created the ongoing crisis.

“The energy crisis is a very complex problem without a single, easy answer.” Says Patrick Rule, webmaster for the project. “But one solution is simple. Each of us needs to address the way we consume gasoline in this country. By parking our cars as a nation on Sunday June 4 we will conserve gas, and continue to expand this dialogue throughout the country. It’s time for Americans to Wake Up!”

More than 100,000 visitors have stopped by DontDriveOnSunday.com since it’s launch on May 2nd. Dozens of newspapers, radio and television stations across the country provided media coverage for the campaign’s first National Rally Date on May 21st. Hundreds of blogs and web sites have provided links to DontDriveOnSunday.com. The MySpace community has embraced the project, with dozens of new “friends” joining the campaign every day.

“We’ve received reports of people participating in Don’t Drive On Sunday from every market in the country, and the across the world.” Says Rule. “People are appointing themselves as local representatives in some areas, by holding meetings and doing whatever they can to spread the word. We’re just getting started with this campaign.”

The site’s core slogan remains true. “One person can make a difference… YOU!” While the site encourages people to do nothing, just Don’t Drive On Sunday, they still seek your support. “You don’t have to send money, you don’t have to vote, you don’t have to march in the streets, although you should…” DontDriveOnSunday.com wants YOU to talk about this project. This campaign gives anybody and everybody a powerful voice… if they Don’t Drive On Sunday, June 4th, June 18th and July 2nd.

Media Contact: Patrick Rule
(573) 529-9147 - media@dontdriveonsunday.com

Site Calls for Churches to Organize Car Pools or Walk to Church on Sunday.

For Immediate Release:

Momentum Builds for DontDriveOnSunday.com Protest

Site Calls for Churches to Organize Car Pools or Walk to Church on Sunday.

Ventura, California, Friday, May 12, 2006. Update. Momentum builds for a campaign protesting high gas prices called DontDriveOnSunday.com The web site asks Americans to park their cars starting on Sunday, May 21st, and do nothing… just Don’t Drive On Sunday. The campaign continues with National Rally Dates on June 4th, June 18th, and July 2nd.

Since it’s launch just 10 days ago, DontDriveOnSunday.com has garnered more than 42,000 hits and growing hourly. “The response is very positive, both in the media and online,” says Patrick Rule, webmaster for the project. "People out there are angry because we are not only paying more for gasoline, we’re starting to pay more for milk, bread and other goods as well."

Anger can be seen in the news reports that have come in, which are posted on the DontDriveOnSunday.com web site. In one report, Jerry Haddock, an independent gas station owner in Jasper, Oregon, says “I’m paying almost fifty cents more per gallon than the local Shell or Texaco stations down the street.” In support of the campaign, Haddock goes on to say, “Nothing would tickle me more than to affect the oil companies business in the way that they have affected mine.”

DontDriveOnSunday.com is calling for Churches to join the movement, by asking them to use busses, form car pools, or simply have parishioners walk to Church. The site says, “What a show of faith if we see full Churches with empty parking lots, starting on Sunday, May 21st". The site urges the nation’s clerics to embrace this campaign and organize other means of transportation to Church services.

According to The Barna Group, more than 45% of Adult Americans attend church in a typical weekend. Approximately 90,000,000 Americans go to church in roughly 40,000,000 vehicles, each burning an average of 2 gallons of gas. This equates to more than 80,000,000 gallons of gasoline burned by Americans just going to church each Sunday.

“If we can car pool or even walk to church and cut the number of vehicles in half,” says Rule, “it will make a huge difference in this campaign. But It only takes one person to make that difference… YOU!”

The Don’t Drive On Sunday campaign runs every other Sunday from May 21st through July 2nd.

Media Contact: Patrick Rule
(573) 529-9147 - media@dontdriveonsunday.com

DontDriveOnSunday.com Launches National Gasoline Protest

May 2nd Press Release:

DontDriveOnSunday.com Launches National Gasoline Protest

Site Urges Protesters to “Stay Home and Do Nothing… Just Don’t Drive On Sunday!”

Ventura, California, Tuesday, May 2, 2006. Launching it's worldwide media campaign today, DontDriveOnSunday.com seeks to create a nationwide protest of spiraling gasoline prices, by encouraging drivers to park their cars on Sunday and stay home.

In a series of four National Rally Dates, DontDriveOnSunday.com, seeks to put millions of cars in park starting on May 21st. The campaign continues every other Sunday with dates on June 4th, June 18th (which is Father's Day this year), and July 2nd - right in the middle of an extended Fourth of July weekend.

"Don't Drive On Sunday was created so that anybody and everybody can protest rising gas prices by simply parking their cars." Says Patrick Rule, webmaster for the project. "The site isn't asking people to vote, or write to Congress. We just want people to stay at home and Don't Drive On Sunday."

The web site is calling for one million cars parked on the May 21st rally date, building to ten million cars by the June 18th date. Addressing the issue of "parking it" on Father's day, the site boldly states, "Your Father would approve of saving money… so Don't Drive On Sunday."

Based on the Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics web site, "U.S. daily travel averages 11 billion miles a day - almost 40 miles per person per day". Assuming the average driver consumes about two gallons of gasoline or more travelling on Sunday, taking one million cars off the road would save at least two million gallons of gas.

"Imagine Ten Million Cars staying home, just one Sunday, saving Twenty Million Gallons of gas. At $3.25 per gallon, this would take more than $65,000,000.00 retail dollars out of the Oil Economy…" DontDriveOnSunday.com confidently proclaims. "…But it only takes One Car… One Person… YOU! And You really don't have to do anything… Just Don't Drive On Sunday!"

The web site features a support page, where people can print ready made flyers to distribute, featuring a simple logo: the familiar Red Circle and Slash with an SUV in the background and the words DON'T DRIVE ON SUNDAY in big bold type. The message is simple: "Fight Greedy Oil Companies… Don't Drive On Sunday".

"We are paying for Greed and Corruption with every mile we drive, but nobody is doing anything about it. Where is the outrage?" Says Rule, "We should be protesting in the streets. Instead, this web site offers the chance for you to protest and be heard by simply staying home."

Can a web site that encourages people to "do nothing and stay home on Sunday", generate enough support to take millions of cars off the road? If so, will it have any impact on the price of gasoline or the administration's energy policy? "Crazier things have happened." Says Rule. "If YOU publicize this press release, YOU could be that one person to do something about gas prices, even if you're just asking other people to do nothing."

Media Contact: Patrick Rule
(573) 529-9147 - media@dontdriveonsunday.com