“If people don’t buy gas on March 31st that just means that they’ll do all of their gas purchases on the 30th or before in order to hold themselves over until April 1st or so.”
Dear friends,
Just yesterday, I received a Facebook invitation about attending a one day boycott of gasoline purchases. The date is Marchv31, 2011.
Initially, I agreed to join in on the endeavor, seeing it as a way to make a statement to the greedy oil companies. However, towards the latter part of the day, while discussing it with one of my daughters, I thought to myself, “If people don’t buy gas on March 31st that just means that they’ll do all of their gas purchases on the 30th or before in order to hold themselves over until April 1st or so.”
Of course, the Big Oil companies will lose no money. As a matter of fact, on March 30th, people may even buy more gas than they normally would. That would be a bonanza for Big Oil!
Therefore, I think that the only way that the public can make a statement and even get prices for gas lowered, is if we stop buying gas from a specific company for one week at a time. For example, for the first week, if no one buys gas from BP (British Petroleum) for one week, then have the same kind of boycott on the second week, and not buy gas from, say, Exxon/Mobil, by the third week either Shell or Sunoco will lower their prices. The next thing that will happen is: a price war among the oil giants.
Yet, if Americans stick to the imbecilic idea of a “No Gas Day” (which may actually be the work of the BidOil companies), then we’ll be contradicting the whole point of sending a message to those greedy oil giants. Ya dig? Think about it.
Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
Friday, March 11, 2011
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Djata, the sentiment, to "No Gas Day" scheduled for March 31st, as indicated in the title to this blog post, was the same as my initial reaction when i received the notice in my Facebook news feed from a much respected friend. But then I reconsidered.
All your considerations in coming to your conclusion about the "movement" went into my initial analysis. You know, things like loading up on gas early, etc. But, at this point in time, I frustratingly felt that there is nothing else I could do to at least send a message, but join with like-minded Americans to send some kind of message to someone.
The alternate plan you propose to the March 31st "No Gas Day" is a much better idea, but it's not an actionable plan at this moment that I know of. I would definitely participate in that also. The current plan is at least a start (spark??) to join people together to DO something. Who knows where it could lead.
So, until you or someone....anyone has a better idea up and running I'm participating in this one. My wont is not to sacrifice the even half-assed decent (as opposed to good) for the perfect.
Thanks, Djata, for the initial referral via news feed. I'll see you on the other side. **
**(Final sentence added for hokey dramatic effect.)
As the great Robert Frost insisted, "A liberal is a man who won't even take his own side in an argument."..The idea shloud be effectiveness - not efficaciousness..Dig?...I still now resent not thinking it through initially and giving support to Big OIl with this imbecilic notion of not buying gas for one day.
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