aerobie
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Message Posted: Jun 2, 2013 11:50:15 PM
Even if you don't see the direct effect, on a dollars & cents level your choice does effect "their" bottom line. Choose carefully who gets YOUR money.
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slicerette
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South Bend
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Message Posted: Jun 2, 2013 11:44:04 PM
in 2011, when the Speedway chain of gas stations (300 in MI, 300 in IN)
tried to spike gas prices over $4.00 a gallon
Speedway lost five per cent in gas sales and another five per cent in store.
Since then, Indiana Speedways (except NW IN) don't go over $4.00 a gallon.
So - yes a drop of 5% in sales does work.
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TRAIMICHELLE
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Message Posted: Apr 18, 2013 12:30:34 PM
No
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BigHorne1
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Missouri
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Message Posted: Apr 18, 2013 3:59:12 AM
not for gas stations, since there are so many that make the big bucks and will not follow it anyways.
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kinger9976433
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California
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Message Posted: Apr 17, 2013 12:17:36 AM
A fuel boycott will economically never work. All it will do is drive the price of gas up, not down.
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PassmyGas
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North Carolina
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Message Posted: Apr 15, 2013 5:32:14 AM
yes
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jkerwin
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Message Posted: Apr 12, 2013 2:09:13 PM
yes. I have seen it work repeatedly. Those of us over 60 know how effective we can be.
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US_ICEMAN
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Message Posted: Apr 12, 2013 1:27:58 PM
No
If it did work, they would never tell us it worked.
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Andy1067
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Message Posted: Apr 3, 2013 2:41:02 PM
Never, there is always one (several)out of the bunch that just don't give a damn.
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area_51
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Message Posted: Mar 8, 2013 6:34:28 PM
no
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LKapitan
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Message Posted: Mar 1, 2013 2:24:16 PM
no
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LeeLavergne
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Message Posted: Feb 17, 2013 1:40:06 PM
it wont work
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installer
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Message Posted: Feb 17, 2013 6:42:38 AM
Millionaires need love too.
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bmxstud
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Chicago
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Message Posted: Feb 16, 2013 3:50:05 PM
nope
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djp071158
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Detroit
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Message Posted: Jan 22, 2013 5:15:00 AM
Unless we actually buy less gas, all we're doing is buying on different days. The only way a boycott works is if we actually buy (and use!) less gas.
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DRIVEOFFWI
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Milwaukee
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Message Posted: Jan 21, 2013 4:49:46 PM
n
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DRIVEOFFWI
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Message Posted: Jan 20, 2013 1:40:19 PM
nope
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djp071158
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Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 9:00:09 PM
Once. New Coke.
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steffy628
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Message Posted: Jan 16, 2013 9:35:16 AM
Nope
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silverfox47
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Message Posted: Jan 13, 2013 8:27:06 PM
no! boycotts in the gas industry can only work if EVERYONE stopped buying a brand of gas. Too many fickle people out there. we all NEED gas.
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MARIOWERX
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Message Posted: Jan 13, 2013 1:49:50 PM
I knew a Boyd Kott and he worked but not very good at it.
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maxstar
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Chicago
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Message Posted: Jan 13, 2013 1:04:28 PM
Yes jd, but you'v'e turned your back on the Valentines day candy boycott and look what has happened.
[Edited by: maxstar at 1/13/2013 1:04:51 PM EST]
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jdhelm
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Iowa
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Message Posted: Jan 13, 2013 4:55:42 AM
well - - - just fyi, I'm boycotting Christmas Candy and - - - it's working
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Mr1lung
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Message Posted: Jan 6, 2013 11:51:03 AM
no, only in the Olympics
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johnwinger
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Message Posted: Dec 30, 2012 11:59:06 AM
no
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moregas1966
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Message Posted: Dec 30, 2012 9:28:19 AM
no
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roxanebay
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Message Posted: Dec 30, 2012 12:58:29 AM
No, scams is what most of them are.
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1OILMAN
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Message Posted: Dec 27, 2012 4:51:46 PM
I don't know if I have ever seen one at all. Imagine that.
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Snowchoux
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Message Posted: Dec 27, 2012 11:54:22 AM
NO, not for gas
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skidsteer85xt
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Message Posted: Dec 7, 2012 11:01:13 PM
no
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easydriver11
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Message Posted: Dec 7, 2012 5:40:36 AM
I do not buy Citgo or Seven eleven gas because it is Hugo Chavez gas
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Spinko
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Message Posted: Dec 6, 2012 9:37:57 PM
No
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AFMichael
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Message Posted: Nov 30, 2012 11:57:17 AM
When has a boycott on gas prices ever worked? There simply isn't a mass notification of boycotting the gas pumps which leads to this movement to fail. In the end, it may only drive up gas prices to recoup the microscopic loss the gas companies may occur.
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midscar18
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Message Posted: Nov 29, 2012 11:01:42 PM
I have yet to see a boycott work
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wldhrs1
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Message Posted: Nov 28, 2012 10:44:33 PM
"Have you ever seen a boycott ever work?"
Yes, but only in small town and small business
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cayo32
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Message Posted: Nov 28, 2012 6:07:31 PM
no
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Snowchoux
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Message Posted: Nov 22, 2012 1:49:44 PM
NO
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CLS1998
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Message Posted: Oct 6, 2012 9:32:24 PM
No!
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73amx
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Message Posted: Oct 5, 2012 12:31:58 PM
boycott? big business won't even notice.
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13Octane
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Tucson
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Message Posted: Oct 4, 2012 7:58:45 PM
yep.
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orangecrush35
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Miami
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Message Posted: Oct 1, 2012 7:15:03 PM
it will not work against the rich too many big oil franchises for gas get all the money and leave us.
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RJD2012
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Michigan
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Message Posted: Oct 1, 2012 6:49:47 PM
I still drive the same miles every week. I would still need the same amount of gas.
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catfish99
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Message Posted: Sep 30, 2012 8:46:11 AM
Commodity boycotts can never work. The Chinese will be happy to take your share.
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Gas_Buddy
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Maryland
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Message Posted: Sep 26, 2012 11:28:09 AM
Have we ever seen boycotts work?
Yes; of course we have. Or at least some of us of a certain age have.
On the major level, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was a seminal episode in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama, as well as the United Farm Workers union's grape and lettuce boycotts.
But what some people here, in these threads think can happen is you can simply not buy gas from one branded station and it will be forced to drop it's prices virtually overnight. Others think that if you don't buy gas today (or on a specific day), then the oil industry will be so overloaded with fuel that they won't know what to do except drastically drop their retail prices below cost.
It isn't the millionaire you're boycotting, successful or not; it's the level of the boycott, what are you demands the people/organization/group you're boycotting have to meet in order for you to stop your boycott. You don't just boycott without because the no one will know what they have to (if it's possible to be done) if you don't tell them what the issues are or what the resolution is that you want.
Do I think a boycott will work against a millionaire?
Sure. If all we're doing is boycotting one or two, or a single owned small chain of of gas stations in a localized area. That could have an effect if they don't get business.
Sure. If you're boycotting buying, for example grapes or lettuce and can get people to do without that (and use something else, such as oranges or spinach). Simply stop using the product; period. Not "defer the day you buy it"; stop using it; period.
Sure. if you're boycotting a local restaurant (Woolworth's in the pre- and civil rights era, for example). A local bus or taxi service. An individual business that has little options to other revenue.
But if you're asking if a boycott would be successful against gas stations, or at the refinery level, then no. Not as long as you're buying the product and your boycott is "Don't buy on Tuesday...or Don't buy on Labor Day"; because all that means is fill up the day before or fill up the day after. Those boycotts, and most called-for boycotts here don't ask for any inconvenience on the part of those people boycotting; they don't ask for any significant changes in fuel usage, they only say "if you don't buy on that day, it will cause such an inconvenience that the industry will collapse." Hard to see how that works against anyone, millionaire or not.
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