As you know gas prices are outraageous and are only goin to worse as time goes on.
Can't you remember the time back in the early 2000's when was barely over $1? What has happened. Money = Corruption. End of story. Let's fix it.
There is a former CEO of one of those big corporations that thinks that they way that this country is headed is out of control and it is unfair that the american people can olny sit and watch. He thought on that; nevertheless, he came up with the idea of boycotting the biggest money making monsters in the gas world which is Exxon and Mobil, which is now one!
Now to show that this will have an effect on prices is this - if no one will buy their gas they will be forced to lower their prices, which will bring costomers back. then it will cause competitors to lower theirs in turn to keep up. make since? i think it is a nice theory ansd id a whole lot better than nothing at all.
This is a whole lot different than a one day gas boycott because it only effects us for that day in the long run. Yeah the companies loose money but you will make up for it the next day. So you loose.
You will never know till you try so let us all do this together and try to get things back to normal starting with gas prices.
So....SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!!!!
I'm not sure a boycott would even help.
First, it's way too hard to implement. There are people who can afford it (believe it or not) and wouldn't see any reason to boycott gas. There are also people (my mother, for example) who need gas and can't exactly boycott it, no matter how high prices go. (She drives an hour to work and an hour back, plus she has to drive from place to place most of the time.) Anyway, there will always be people who won't follow through.
Second, I don't think it would help. Right now, there is a surplus of gas and low demand. The law of supply and demand says that when there's a large supply (and there is) and a low demand (again, there is), prices should go down. That isn't the case with gas, and boycotting it probably wouldn't have an effect. Besides, Exxon Mobil is such a large company, it would be too hard to boycott them.
I recently wrote a column for my school newspaper about gas prices. A boycott is a good idea, but virtually impossible.
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it would only be a boycott for one company, it would help set a precedent.
i know some people need it & others don't care but for the ones that do it could set gas prices down even a few cents.
i didn't come up with this. i heard it on the news & I wanted to spread the word because i thin something needs to be done.
But, as I said, I read that there's a surplus in gas; theoretically, prices should be lower, but they aren't.
It's still not totally possible. What if someone lives in an area where Exxon Mobil is the only supplier?
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"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." ~ Joseph Pulitzer
This might work but they tried it last year at least where I live. On a certain day everyone was not to buy gas at all, making them lose business, but people still went and bought gas. It could help but I honestly wish it would go back down to the 1.00 something a gallon because then food prices would also go back down. To buy a gallon of milk it is almost $4 when it used to be under 2. Maybe this will help, but I really don't know
Something people should know about:
http://www.progressiveu.org/032913-lupus-uncureable-wait-what
I got that email too...
It wouldn't work because, even if no one buys gas on that one day, they're all just going to go out the next day and buy it. The only way a boycott would work is if were permanent. As in, everyone stops buying gas because they are all just going to bike or walk forever. One day isn't going to matter at all.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/sawaboof
"...There is a crushing guilt that comes with being a Catholic. Whether things are good or bad or you're simply... eating tacos in the park, there is always the crushing guilt."
-30 Rock-
this is just one company that is being boycotted & people are supposed to use an alternative gas station. that isn't so hard is it?
since it isn't just for one day there is a better chance....
And what about people like me? There aren't alternative gas stations where I live.
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"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." ~ Joseph Pulitzer
We can make a difference...
We have to work together.
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We can make a difference... so easy! But it takes all of us.
Americans can make a difference.
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Americans can make a difference.
Do you realize how many new laws are being passed each week, that we, the people have no knowledge of or voice whether they are passed or not?
http://www.doomedamerica.com Where you can find articles, videos of all the
Like almost every American who has a retirement fund or owns a mutual fund, I am an Exxon Mobile Shareholder. I believe more than half of Americans are part of the investor class and most of the rest wish they were.
I think this whole boycott effort is totally misguided and pathetic.
The boycott is pathetic because it can't work. Gasoline is fungible so any gas that Exxon has trouble selling in their Exxon branded gasoline stores will be sold to independent gas stations and Exxon will make almost as much profit as the boycotters unknowingly buy it. Most Exxon gas stations are owned by franchiseses so you will mainly be hurting Mom and Pop businesses rather than the evil corporation (me and millions of shareholders like me) that you hate so much.
The boycott is misguided because it is directed at the wrong entity. Far more of the cost of every gallon of gasoline that you buy is TAX for the government rather than profit for the oil companies. If you have a problem with gas prices the best way to impact them downwards is to demand that your government quit taxing you into poverty. The government is where your anger should be directed rather than at ordinary Americans like me who have just invested wisely.
If you really want to do something insidious the best way to fight the pain of high oil prices is to buy some shares of stock in Exxon. Then like me and like millions of other ordinary Americans, you can find something to smile about everytime you drive by a gas station and watch other people filling up. And even when you are busting out your own credit card you are paying yourself.
Try a selective boycott.
Refuse to do business with EXXON/MOBILE today.
Do not buy their gas or diesel.
Do not use their convenience stores.
Do not deliver to them.
Do not accept employment from them.
Return their credit cards with a message that their products are to expensive.
A selective boycott can be effective if enough people participate.
When their gas evaporates in the storage tanks and the milk sours in the convenience store refrigerators THEY WILL LISTEN or their replacements will.
If the storage tanks are empty and the convenience store refrigerators are empty
THEY WILL LISTEN or their replacements will.
When or if EXXON/MOBILE is gone from the scene choose the next largest oil company and continue until the hundred million dollar executives get the idea that consumers can and will control the market place! A golden parachute is too heavy to break a fall.
It has been a month since this boycott was first posted. I have not traveled anywhere in that time but in my hometown the Exxon station is far from the cheapest gas in town and it seems to be doing steady business. The price of gas has gone up steadily at all the stations in the last month and it is at least 25 cents higher than when this boycott began.
It is therefore my considered opinion that the boycott has been a flop.
But I'm willing to give it more time. How long do you think it will take? I think I will refrain from holding my breath.