Gas went up 10 cents a gallon today -- I think we need to do something

[Connonym]

boycotting the gas stations is obviously an idea that didn't work but I'll tell you what I think *would* work -- a strike. If we could get enough people to pick a day and call in sick to work BUT ALSO not leave the house or buy anything on that day I think we'd make enough of a bump on the economy for them to take notice. The only fucking democracy we have left is our money and only a fraction of that do we get to spend at our discretion. I'm sick of choking on the crumbs of what big business allows us.

[leftofthedial]

1. why do you hate America?

[Fox Mulder]

2. I noticed that.

It was $3.85 a couple of days ago, and yesterday it shot up to $3.95 a gallon! :wtf:

[Connonym]

3. $4.15 here

holiday weekend coming up so it's probably going to leap again. Fuckers (pardon my language)

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. $4.15 here also. It is killin' me. n/t

[dubeskin]

6. Ah, you asses! It's $4.49 here!

And it just went down a bit. A month ago it topped off at like $4.60!

[1]

5. cool. i'm in. but pick sunday for the day. i usually sleep most of that day...

i don't work that day. i don't drive anywhere. and i always have leftovers from the week to eat.

sunday would be the perfect day for a boycott in my world.

let's do it.

i love boycotts!

[KitchenWitch]

7. Ours has been going down lately.

I paid 4.599 a week and a half ago and today I paid 4.459

[Connonym]

8. I'm really lucky that I telecommute and only use about a tank a month

otherwise I'd be having to choose between grocery money and gas money. I don't know how people are managing

[harmonicon]

9. wouldn't work

Now, if there was a strike where people refused to buy anything until prices were changed and the criminals responsible were in shackles, something would be done, but I don't think that will happen. Just saying "I'm on strike.... umm... no demands to be met, because the strike ends tomorrow" doesn't work. Just move somewhere where you either don't drive at all, or a few times a week at most. That's what needs to happen. Reduce the demand.

[struggle4progress]

10. German man torches car to protest high gas prices

BERLIN (AP) — A German man doused his BMW with gasoline and torched it on Friday in protest at skyrocketing fuel costs, police said. The unemployed 30-year-old man drove the black 1995 BMW 3-series sedan onto the lawn outside Frankfurt's convention center grounds at about 7:30 a.m., police spokesman Karlheinz Wagner said.

He then jumped out, emptied a canister of gas over the vehicle, and set fire to it, Wagner said.

By the time the fire department got to the scene, the car was entirely burned out.

The Bavarian man, whose name was being withheld because he has not been charged with a crime, told police that gas prices were so high he could no longer afford to drive the vehicle ...

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