I think as many people should boycott as possible. That would leave more gas for the rest of us who understand economics.
Oh boy.
has anybody wondered why this POS in Iran keeps stirring things up? Maybe to keep the volatility and the price of oil artificially high? I mean who really benefits from all this uncertainty. OPEC!!!
Wonder if they will boycott Honda? They made money last quarter.
I've never visited Bee County, but it sounds like it is run by a nest of idiots.
Complaining about gasoline prices at these levels is quite natural, but boycotts won't solve the problem. More refineries are needed as well as more exploration and more nuclear plants. Anything short of that is useless hand wringing.
About $0.50 / gallon is for taxes, so they want the untaxed gasoline to be $0.80 / gallon. Since the price of the crude oil is about $1.80 / gallon, they want Exxon to lose $1.00/gallon on the oil plus refine it, ship it and run the station for free.
Maybe they can make up for it in volume.
Sure, screw the hell out of the local retailers, the likely only people who would get hurt by such an idiotic proposal.
SA - any comments?
I got this same message thru an email, specifically pointed at Exxon-Mobil. Passed it on to all my email friends, just as others have done.
It's spreading like hot butter on toast.
Do you want to buy a bridge too? :) http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp
Why do we have to "urge" people to boycott a product whose price has become "too high". When Cable TV got too expensive for me, I didn't need anybody to urge me to "boycott". Don't people have enough sense to make their decision for themselves?
$1.30 a gallon??? LOL!
Hey, Mr. Plumber, I want you to charge me only $5 an hour instead of $85.
And you, Mr Lawyer... I insist that you charge me legal fees of only $3.50/hr.
What? What do you mean you can't do that? I DEMAND it!
"Martinez said Bee County didn't pass a resolution to hurt local businesses, but to "protect the masses.""
Hmmmmmmm.......Sounds a little marxist there does it not?
What a joke. Are they also planning on boycotting the government which makes more per gallon than Exxon?
Let the lefties boycott. The less of them on the road, the safer the roads are.
I've been thinking some more about boycotting a specific company. Assuming they buy the gas elsewhere, what they are essentially doing is REDUCING competition. Taking it to the extreme, if they decide they are going to boycott every company except one, they are essentially creating a monopoly. By discriminating in any other way besides prices, they are going to pay more than the competitive price. If they truly get utility out of buying gas from comapnies who aren't exxon mobil, that is fine with me. However, they may have to pay higher prices to do so.
Wow, what a great idea. This would be just as effective as boycotting McDonald's to decrease the price of hamburgers. (s/off)
One might think that with 50 year mortgages, repackaging of 80s TV shows as movies, Star Wars 1-3, Brittney Spears, and wedge salads we would of reached a Stupidity Saturation Point.
But alas the SSP doesn't exist and there will always be a fresh and easily exchanged supply of stupidity available for use by large groups of silly people to do things like this.