An IDEA We can't boycott gas

[greenbriar]

and they know it.

but they count on us to buy pop/tobacco and other items to make their profit.

How about if we just bought gas there and shop elsewhere for necessary items?





If I were a gas station owner, I would take a loss and sell my gas 10 cents cheaper. The customers would also buy tobacco ect...it would come out?

[Don_G]

1. It's A Lot Cheaper Anyway To

Buy your food at the grocery store, buy your cigarettes at the tobacco store and get your gas at the gas store.

[greenbriar]

2. I agree,

but it is soooooooooo convienient to go to QT and get pop/tobacco with my gas.

but no longer!

[Trajan]

3. An idea we cannot boycott gas ......

Did we miss a punctuation mark some where ? ..

Maybe "An Idea: We cannot boycott gas" ??? ...

or "I have an idea. Since we cannot boycott gas, ... "

Perhaps it was my catholic upbringing that makes me cringe when I see such tortured syntax ....

[greenbriar]

4. don't distract from the idea

I think faster than I type.

I get hammered on it all the time.

[Delarage]

5. We could also drive less

And generally reduce our energy consumption. Buy compact flourescent lights, add insulation, buy more fuel-efficient cars, keep the tires on our cars inflated properly, keep them well-maintained, walk more, etc.

[BNA Biker]

14. Buy Only The Gas You Need Each Day

The best way to change gasoline prices is to change your habitual purchase pattern. At present no shortage of gasoline exists. We have an inventory problem. It is made worse by each of us when we fill our tanks. When you have the surplus gas in your tank instead of in the oil company's, he has no reason to lower prices. If we would buy only the gas we need each day and run our tanks down to less than 1/8 of a tank before we buy, the price will come down to entice you to fill your tank. Don't do it. Industry pounds on us "just in time delivery" as the way to control costs, keep your inventory low and take delivery only as needed. Do everything else for the long term to reduce energy consumption for us all. But this change will alter prices now.

[keithyboy]

6. We certainly can all stay home Memorial Day week-end.

No driving, no buying!

[greenbriar]

7. we are bbqing

at our house.

[HuskerDem]

8. So you are putting the hurt on one station owner. In our community

most of those are local folks. Just couldn't go with that here. I would feel like I was punishing decent people for the actions of a criminally insane president.

[greenbriar]

9. if that station owner voted bush

maybe a tightening of the belt would convince him to vote Kerry

[Gold Metal Flake]

10. Nothing but gas

Buy nothing but gas from gas stations. They make a ton on the retail sales. So, since we must have gas, and since hot dogs, coffee, oil, condoms, cigs, slurpees, Coke, gum etc. are all elective, cut out the elective.

[greenbriar]

11. exactly what I was trying to say

thank you for putting it in better terms

[charlie]

12. You can't boycott gas

But you can boycott a company. These calls to forego gas purchases on a single day are ineffective because they're short-term and smear the pain amongst many companies. Targetting a single major brand of gas for an open-ended period would be more worthwhile.

[Gregorian]

13. Since I'm here, I'll post this

It goes deeper than most people think.

To boycott gas for automobiles, is quite a shallow experiment. The use of gas goes far beyond cars.

I'll just drop this on you- every time you flush the toilet, you use gas. Pressurized water uses gas. Eggs, vegetables, fruit, and anything else you buy, uses gas. I could go on and on.

And my next post is even more desparate. I might not even post it. Noone would believe it anyways.

[yellowdawgdem]

15. a good idea

Sure that makes sense to me. And in addition to that, I've heard it said that one could boycott the biggest of the gas/oil companies. Or go for Citgo. I'm sure if we all put our heads together, we'd come up with something effective.