Gas Prices, What Can Our Generation Do?

Over the past couple of years the gas prices in America have been a big problem because they keep rising to unpredictable prices. I remember one way that people in America tried to counter act these rising prices was for everyone in America not to buy gas on one day. In theory making the gas companies lose large sums of money that day, sending the message that the consumers control the prices. This of course fails for two reasons; for one not everyone in America participated, probably not very many at all and two, gas companies know that people still need to buy gas.
My proposal for lowering gas prices would be a little different. After taking discrete math, I realize that the consumer does control the market in some ways. Mathematically as a generation we can over come the rising prices of gas by controlling the market. Instead of not buying gas at all for one day, what we can do is not buy gas from the big corporations like BP, Shell, Exxon, or Mobil and buy from the smaller mom and pop gas stations and companies. This will cause the large corporations to lower their prices to match these smaller companies so that they two can make as much money as they used too. Our generation would successfully be mathematically controlling the market by creating a price war between gas competitors.