An effective strategy for lowering gas prices
The oil companies are laughing at us, all the way to the bank. The oil companies are making record profits this year, dispite the erronious rumors of an oil shortage. You see, a one day boycott only gives the oil companies a one day vacation. You NEED to purchase fuel to get to work, deliver goods and services and so forth. On the designated day of a boycott, you will either purchase gas the day before or the day after rendering the boycott ineffective.
A more effective strategy is to target one oil company and stop purchasing fuel from that company. Let us start with, for purposes of discussion, that we target CHEVRON gas stations for the month of June. If nobody purchases fuel from the targeted stations for the entire month of June, then that oil company is left with a stockpile of product. The company still has an overhead to cover. Employees to pay, electrical bills to cover and lease payments...etc. You on the other hand, are still able to purchase fuel for your daily and weekly needs. You just simply purchase fuel from SHELL or ATLANTIC RICHFIELD or MOBILE...etc, just not CHEVRON. At least for the month of June. This will cause the other oil companies to realize that you, the combined customers have the ultimate control, the ability to chose who gets your money for goods and or services.
If at the end of June gas prices are not lowered, another oil company would be targeted, lets say SHELL for the month of July. Eventually, the oil companies may get the message and the industry would go through a pricing readjustment. I am not whinning for the days of $1.25 per gallon of gas, just more reasonable pricing. When gas prices go up, everything goes up. Milk, eggs, bread, mufflers...you get the idea.
Tell me what you think.
Rich