GAS Boycott - Democratic Underground

rosesaylavee

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Mon Jun-12-06 01:20 PM
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Poll question: GAS Boycott

What actions would you be willing to do to support a boycott of GAS?

And without a MLK Jr. or Gandhi-type leader to encourage this, do you think that we here at DU could collectively coordinate this and encourage other blog sites to do this?

It would have to go on indefinitely to have any kind of significant economic effect on Big Oil and its WH staff and for the M$M to take notice.

Anyone up for this?

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AndyA

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Mon Jun-12-06 01:23 PM
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1. I have already started car pooling more.

It's a pain in the neck, because I leave earlier than normal, and get home later than normal, but it has resulted in a small reduction in gasoline use for me. If others would do the same thing, demand would drop considerably and the prices would come down.

Errr...or so they say, at least.

I don't do it every day, but I can tell you that one of my cars hasn't been started for over a week, now.

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endarkenment

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Mon Jun-12-06 01:25 PM
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2. Not buying gas one day a week would do nothing.

Everyone would just shift their purchases to some other day.

But I am not sure exactly what the point of the gas boycott is. The facts are that outside of the urban northeast hardly anyone can use mass transit. Most people are stuck in suburban and exurban edge cities where their survival depends on the automobile. I could bike to work once a week in good weather in the summer and that is it. Too far to walk and no mass transit. I'd hazard a guess that most people have a similar problem.

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rosesaylavee

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Mon Jun-12-06 01:30 PM
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3. When Gandhi walked to the sea to make

salt, a lot of people walked with him - it didn't take everyone in India to walk with him - just a sizable, scary number of them.

Similarly, not everyone would be able to boycott gas - but I think enough people doing it would shake the WH and its Oil succubi up enough to take notice.

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