🚀 go-pugleaf

Herein lies the problem with any gas boycott...how do you organize such a
boycott???  Most people are creatures of habit and will buy their gas from a
couple of stations when they need it, and don't really care about the price.
( unless it is $10 a Litre or something )

As I see it, boycotting the gas  companies is a good idea.  However...how do
you organize such a venture, and how do you get the piblic at large to
participate?

Until someone solves this problem, you might as well forget the boycott.
Its either all or nothing here.  A partial boycott won't work!!!

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote in message
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> Dave 2 <dave2@infowave.cutoffs.net> writes:
>
>
> >No, quite the opposite.  The biggest inventory of gasoline in a big city
is
> >with us, in our collective gas tanks.  *THAT* is where our power lies,
and we
> >in Vancouver have been using this power fairly effectively to help keep
prices
> >low.  We've been in an on-and-off gaswar since August of '98.  We have
learned
> >to keep our gas tanks FULL at all times when the price is low.   Then,
when
> >the gas companies increase the price (in unison, as usual), *we* have the
> >power to increase the supply at the stations, as we all have full tanks,
> >"nobody" needs to buy gas for a few days to a week.  Sometimes after the
price
> >increases gas stations look like they have tumbleweeds drifting through
them,
> >they are so empty.  That doesn't just _look_ like a reduction in demand,
it
> >_is_ a reduction in demand.  Sure enough, the price will start to drop.
Just
> >last week we had prices driven down to 49.9  (pretty high for Vancouver,
from
> >Aug 98 to April 99 the prices were in the 36.9 to 39.9 range; cheapest I
saw
> >was 28.5)
>
> Now, *this* is the best suggestion I've seen yet...I'm not sure what the
size
> of Vancover is right now, but if its as big as I seem to recall, *how* did
> you organize enough ppl to make a difference?
>
> I ride a motorcycle, which tends to be pretty good on gas, and tend to try
> and do similar down here, except that I'm "only one" :(  Went into Halifax
> to visit the gf this weekend...filled up before I left Wolfville (61.9 for
> full serve), drove into Halifax (68.9) and back on that tank of gas.  But,
> being just one, and a bike only holds ~$5-7 worth of gas, it doesn't make
> much of a dent...
>
> >> Hitch hike with a sign saying "Saving gas".  Bike. Walk. Stay home.
>
> >Dangerous, can be dangerous, walked halfway across Europe (it seems),
boring.
>
> hitch hiking...isn't it also illegal?
>
> >> Don't 'cruise' or sight see.
>
> >Don't really "cruise", per se (driving up and down the same strip on a
summer
> >night?)
>
> >Sorry, not giving up "sightseeing"
>
> Agreed...we are trying to get the station vendors to reduce the cost of
gas,
> reduce sightseeing, you reduce revenues, and reduce employment...:(
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> Marc G. Fournier                               scrappy@hub.org
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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