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Posted on 04/23/2008 10:19:13 AM PDT by tmp02

Are there any national boycotting efforts that would message to the gas co.? ie. just fill you car/truck on Thursdays.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: boycott; gasboycott; highgas; vanity
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1 posted on 04/23/2008 10:19:14 AM PDT by tmp02
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File under, “useless thread.”


2 posted on 04/23/2008 10:19:58 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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Why?

Would lack of purchase of gas on Thursdays limit the consumption of gasoline or inhibit the offset purchases on Fridays?

No.
Meaningless gesture.
And, foolish, as gas prices are generally at their lowest on Thursday mornings.

Just my thoughts.


3 posted on 04/23/2008 10:20:55 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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useless.


4 posted on 04/23/2008 10:22:39 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: Vaquero
"Useless, uesless"

- John Wilkes Booth

5 posted on 04/23/2008 10:23:33 AM PDT by stravinskyrules (Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?)
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How many times do we have to debunk this drivel?


6 posted on 04/23/2008 10:24:03 AM PDT by bolobaby
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Thoroughly debunked as a concept every single time gas prices go up.


7 posted on 04/23/2008 10:24:20 AM PDT by discostu (down in the swamps with the gators and flamingos)
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Actually there is something I do. I buy gas at the grocery store which is exactly on the way home from work. I buy exactly four gallons. No more - no less. I use a ATM / Check card so it does have a positive ID on the sale.

If a goodly percentage of the population started buying exactly 4 gallons a pop it would get a little crowded at the station BUT it would send a strong message that folks are starting to band together on this issue.

8 posted on 04/23/2008 10:25:06 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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Sigh.


9 posted on 04/23/2008 10:25:26 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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Yeah, Gas stations will go bankrupt if you fill up on Wednesday or Friday instead.


10 posted on 04/23/2008 10:25:46 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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Here is a message for them: Let us all fill our gas tanks on a specific day. That way my 457, Roth, and pension will increase!


11 posted on 04/23/2008 10:26:53 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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All that would do is give the employees at the gas station a day to sit around between the rush days on Wednesday and Friday.

It would be far more useful to boycott driving on Thursday and not make up the miles on other days. At least that would reduce national gasoline usage.

12 posted on 04/23/2008 10:26:56 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Pray for Rattendaemmerung: the final mutually destructive battle between Obama and Hillary in Denver)
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First you have to log in.


13 posted on 04/23/2008 10:27:52 AM PDT by Sax
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What would buying exactly 4 gallons accomplish other than not giving me time to wash my windows while filling and making me go to the gas station every week instead of every 2 1/2 to 3? It might tell them we’ve banded together, but it would also tell them we’ve banded together for the simple point of banding together not to actually do anything.


14 posted on 04/23/2008 10:28:17 AM PDT by discostu (down in the swamps with the gators and flamingos)
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Yeah, by all means wait ‘til Friday...when it’s ten cents more a gallon. Stick it to the man!


15 posted on 04/23/2008 10:28:25 AM PDT by gundog (John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.)
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Ah, the boycott buying gas thread is back.


16 posted on 04/23/2008 10:28:29 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Typical White Person)
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Don’t gas stations pay for employees on days when there are not any sales. And all the trucks on the doc have a harder time filling tankers? Stricle(spell?) affect...


17 posted on 04/23/2008 10:29:41 AM PDT by tmp02
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IBTZ


18 posted on 04/23/2008 10:30:04 AM PDT by indcons
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“Don’t buy gas on Thursday.”

And one other thing.

Google “Miserable Failure”

And post a thread on the results when you do.

We’re all anxiously awaiting the results.


19 posted on 04/23/2008 10:30:57 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Typical White Person)
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20 posted on 04/23/2008 10:31:13 AM PDT by Sax
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