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

Did anyone get this email about May 15 2007? On this day, the email states that there is going to be a walk out on buying gas, throughout the U.S.A.. In my opinion and the way gas prices are sky rocketing in the United States, this is a great idea! Lets show these politicians and oil companies who is really in charge, us! Lets all banned together, and show them how we can control the price of gas too! May 15 2007 1. Everyone in the U.S. does not buy gas for one whole day! Gas up a couple of...

If you've checked your e-mail in the last week, you've probably seen a message forwarded from a friend, urging you to boycott gas stations on Tuesday. The aim: To teach greedy Big Oil a lesson. But economics Prof. Pat Welch of St. Louis University says the real lesson is that the boycott won't work. "Needing gas ranks third behind needing to breathe and needing to eat," he said this morning. "If you need gas and you don't buy it on May 15, you'll buy it on May 16, or May 14." Welch cited an iron law of economics called "inelasticity...

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The summer travel season isn't even here yet and gas prices are higher than ever. The government says the average for a gallon of regular is now three dollars, ten cents a gallon. That's more than four cents higher than the previous record, which was set in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Gas prices have risen more than 93 cents a gallon since hitting their low point this year in January. An Energy Department official will brief members of Congress Tuesday,on the outlook for summer, when prices traditionally are at their highest. A nation-wide gas boycott is planned for...