We can boycott big oil, we just have to boycott it one company at a time.

[originalpckelly]

Just boycott one company at a time while still buying gas from the others.

Make sure that you shop at the convenience store, they are nice people and they don't make but a couple of pennies of profit on the gas, they want you to buy other stuff in reality. Go buy some food or something from them and inform them you refuse to buy gas from the big oil company in particular.

We can do it. It won't inconvenience us much at all, just drive to a different company's gas station.

It's not hard, yet it will make that one particular oil company feel the pinch.

What do you think? Maybe we could get an e-mail campaign going to start this. We can demand that the price of gas be lowered by that company and until it is lowered we will refuse to buy the gas.

[tammywammy]

1. here you go

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

[liberaldemocrat7]

2. I have this strategy to get the oil companies to lower their prices to $1.75 a gallon

I have this strategy to get the oil companies to lower their prices to $1.75 a gallon through a selective boycott.

Tell people to Call your local Exxon/Mobil gas stations and tell the managers: UNLESS you get your parent CEO of Exxon/Mobil to lower prices so they can sell gas for $1.75 a gallon, you will not get your car repaired at their gas station and you will not buy gas from their station and not buy food and other convenience items at their store. That will pressure Exxon/Mobil stations throughout the country to get their parent company Exxon/Mobil to do something.

The object of this appears to pressure the local gas station and force them to get their parent to lower the gas price. Then buy your gas, get your car repaired and buy convenience items at Citgo or some other station.

Make the phone calls to your local Exxon/Mobil station. Exxon/Mobil, gives a lot of money to the GOP. Once Exxon/Mobil lowers their prices the other stations will have to follow suit.

No, don't even buy convenience items at Exxon/Mobil stations.

[Liberal In Texas]

5. Exxon/Mobile is a good target. The largest of them all.

I haven't purchased ANYTHING from them for years.

We can start at the top and work our way down from there.

[Sherman A1]

3. It won't work

The gas will simply be sold at another station. Better to find ways to cut your consumption and boycott in that fashion. Is it time to check the pressure in the tires or look for a better mileage vehilce?

[liberaldemocrat7]

6. THIS WILL WORK. We're not going after the gas. We're going after the car repairs.

We're going after the car repairs and the convenience store sales, not the gasoline.

This WILL work. Just another attack by the DU negativity squad.

[gravity]

9. You are hurting small businesses that way

and ain't doing a damn thing to stop oil company profits.

[originalpckelly]

11. No, now I realize it won't work and I wanted people to buy from the good convenience store owners.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

I'm such a dumbass, oil and eventually gas are commodities!

They are vertically integrated companies, so that means unlike another supplier, they can still make a profit by reselling gas to another company.

This system of individual company boycotts usually works when a company is not vertically integrated, but because they are it won't.

[karlrschneider]

4. Sorry but it wouldn't help. Oil companies don't care -where- their gas is sold,

only how much. That gas at the convenience store could just as easily have come from Exxon's refinery as any other place.

[terisan]

7. If boycotting one oil company is not workable how about boycotting a related company,

a company owned by one of them, a company owned by one of their board members, or demonstrations against their board members---such as the Stanford or Harvard professors listed as board members, or one of their bigtime investors or a fund invested heavily in Exxon.

[gravity]

8. It won't work

Gas is sold on markets and is fungible.

If no one will buy from an Exxon station, Exxon refineries will just supply other gas stations like Shell and make the same profits off wholesale gas.

The only way to send a message is to buy less total gas.

[mmonk]

10. I prefer blood red paint on gas pumps.

The symbolism can increase anger.