Don't Buy Gas - Do Chain-mail Efforts to Boycott Work?
Obviously if you fill up the day before or the day after...you haven't cost the oil companies any loss of funds. The gesture is mostly symbolic. But does that mean ineffective?
Many energy advocates say only long term efforts help. Curbing gas usage by limiting trips...choosing vacation destination more wisely, car pooling etc. The hybrid car market certainly has taken advances forward, spurred on by each energy crisis.
Maybe everything helps, as long as you are doing something to help. Honoring a gas free day certainly can't hurt. Right? Maybe as efforts become more and more effective, these early efforts to organize gas "boycotts" will eventually gain more attention. Each efforts shows that we as a nation are seeking a road to energy independence.
Not all of us car be developers that work on new forms of energy. Not all of us can afford new hybrids cars. But we can all keep discussing and debating these early efforts. Efforts that I hope will one day move into effective methods to send a message of our desire for energy independence.
So when you get the forwarded messages, maybe you should forward and not regard as spam. Not everyone will want to participate, not everyone can participate. But it does make you think...it causing people to think a common thought. The building blocks for change, it has to start somewhere.
Published by Todd Matthews
Todd's calling to be a voice for missing and unidentified persons began when he solved the identity of the "Tent Girl" case, Barbara Hackman-Taylor, after a ten-year journey that ended in 1998. View profile
May 15th Gas Boycott is a Bad Idea"...If all users did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take
$2,292,000,000.00 (that's almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companies
pockets for just one day..."
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- spurred on by each energy crisis
- as a nation are seeking a road to energy independence