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time to boycott the oil companies
Really. It's high time we stop acting like helpless victims of corporate
greed. If American consumers would agree to boycott the oil companies for three days at a time -- no purchase of oil products nationwide -- that would send a message that would be heard. Start by doing it once a month. And then, if need be, do it twice a month, until they understand that we're not going to just keep paying and paying outrageous prices. About the only thing that will get the oil companies' attention is American consumers shutting off the flow of money. Growing up in Houston, and working as a young adult in corporate sales, where I mingled with plenty of oil people, I know that every time the price of oil jumps up, lots of the "big guys" in offices and divisions all around the country get bonuses and wage increases. I’m all for any business making a decent profit in order to succeed and survive, but the big oil companies have gone way beyond all that. What makes me angry is that they do this at the expense of the hard working men and women of America. We pay all the bills for the oil companies. We put up the money for every expense account, pay for all the pensions, foot the bill for every vacation, every huge office building, every new gas pump. We, the consumer, pay it all. And yet the big guys just keep jacking everything up, sky high. You should see how they live. You should see the cars they drive, the money they blow on offices, the money just wasted for the sake of wasting it. Instead of jacking prices up and out of all proportion, let them lay off some of the hundreds of big guys that do little more than sit around or golf all afternoon. Why make the little guys pay, pay, and pay some more, when too many average households can hardly buy gas just to keep working? Let the big guys go out and find a real job. Exxon, Conoco, Shell, and all the rest have plenty of oil reserves to work with. They are just playing the game, and the news media jumps right in. I've seen enough of the maps to know that we don't need to stand around hoping for better pricing from other countries. We have plenty of oil to carry us well beyond the day when we no longer need it. And that's part of the whole picture. Oil companies know the days are numbered, as more and more people turn to alternative sources of energy. And they want to get all the money out of us that they can -- even if it means breaking the little guys. Boycott oil products. Do it as a nation. Do it in numbers big enough to remind big corporations that we pay the bills, and we know it. Remember: We hold the purse strings. It's high time we use them. We either boycott now or wait until we can't afford to drive to work anymore. Jim |
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time to boycott the oil companies
Jim wrote:
If American consumers would agree to boycott the oil companies for three days at a time -- no purchase of oil products nationwide -- that would send a message that would be heard. No it wouldn't, because before and after the 3 days, everyone would compensate by buying the amount of gas that would have been consumed during those 3 days. The only way is if everyone actually eliminated gas consumption for those 3 days and didn't make up for it. That means no one drives at all. But businesses would never do it. Here's a somewhat related article: http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp |
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time to boycott the oil companies
Bucky wrote: Jim wrote: If American consumers would agree to boycott the oil companies for three days at a time -- no purchase of oil products nationwide -- that would send a message that would be heard. No it wouldn't, because before and after the 3 days, everyone would compensate by buying the amount of gas that would have been consumed during those 3 days. The only way is if everyone actually eliminated gas consumption for those 3 days and didn't make up for it. That means no one drives at all. But businesses would never do it. Here's a somewhat related article: http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp Yeah, just shows you the lack of economic knowledge and even common sense guys like Jim are working with. |
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time to boycott the oil companies
Jim wrote: Really. It's high time we stop acting like helpless victims of corporate greed. If American consumers would agree to boycott the oil companies for three days at a time -- no purchase of oil products nationwide -- that would send a message that would be heard. Start by doing it once a month. And then, if need be, do it twice a month, until they understand that we're not going to just keep paying and paying outrageous prices. Jim So just buy they same amount you would have 3 days later? Every time the gas goes up some brainless fool comes up with this thing. snip the remainder as anyone who puts that out isn't worth reading Harry K |
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time to boycott the oil companies
Jim wrote: Boycott oil products. Yeah, but do it by buying a car that gets 50mpg, not by buying an SUV. Conserve. Insulate your home. Use less energy. Adjusting your purchase around some arbitrary set of 3 days does zippo. Jeez, what a bunch of morons. |
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time to boycott the oil companies
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:03:15 -0600, someone wrote:
If American consumers would agree to boycott the oil companies for three days at a time -- no purchase of oil products nationwide -- that would.... That would give 'em helluva big sales on the 4th day! Idiot spammer. If he really thinks this will work, then he is more stupid than evil. Reply to NG only - this e.mail address goes to a kill file. |
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