Reply #54: I also garden and have long advocated others do the same [View All]

[havocmom]

Live in cattle country and have friends who produce grain/meat products. I know a bit about what it costs them (fuel being highest consideration) to produce food and ship it. So, I KNOW a few people boycotting one company is NOT gonna make a tinkers damn of difference. All you boycotting people STILL uses fuel, whether you have a car or not. If you eat, you are paying BIG OIL, unless you produce every single morsel you consume.

Same with clothes on your back. Unless you grow the fiber, spin, weave, sew, or run around naked, you use fuel

Boycotts like this don't work because NONE of us are independent from the need to transport goods.

There are troops in Iraq reporting of materials being tossed into heaps and set afire... with FUEL so the contractors can order new materials and get paid more from DOD. You can boycott all you want, but your tax dollars are also buying fuel.

Not much of a boycott, except to make the delusional THINK they have the problem solved.

They are yukking it up in the board rooms about 'boycotts'