Really. Just do it 3 days at a time, staying home if need be, and do it as
a nation.
About the only thing that will get the oil companies' attention is
American
consumers shutting off the flow of money.
Growing up in Houston, and working as a young adult in corporate sales,
where I mingled with plenty of oil people, I know that every time the
price
of oil jumps up, lots of the "big guys" in offices and divisions all
around
the country get bonuses and wage increases. I’m all for any business
making
a decent profit in order to succeed and survive, but the big oil companies
have gone way beyond all that.
What makes me angry is that they do this at the expense of the hard
working
men and women of America. We pay all the bills for the oil companies. We
put up the money for every expense account, pay for all the pensions, foot
the bill for every vacation, every huge office building, every new gas
pump.
We, the consumer, pay it all. And yet the big guys just keep jacking
everything up, sky high. You should see how they live. You should see
the
cars they drive, the money they blow on offices, the money just wasted for
the sake of wasting it. Instead of jacking prices up and out of all
proportion, let them lay off some of the hundreds of big guys that do
little
more than sit around or golf all afternoon. Why make the little guys pay,
pay, and pay some more, when too many average households can hardly buy
gas
just to keep working? Let the big guys go out and find a real job.
If American consumers would agree to boycott the oil companies for three
days at a time -- no purchase of oil products nationwide -- that would
send
a message that would be heard. Start by doing it once a month. And then,
if need be, do it twice a month, until they understand that we're not
going
to just keep paying and paying outrageous prices.
Exxon, Conoco, Shell, and all the rest have plenty of oil reserves to work
with. They are just playing the game, and the news media jumps right in.
I've seen enough of the maps to know that we don't need to stand around
hoping for better pricing from other countries. We have plenty of oil to
carry us well beyond the day when we no longer need it.
And that's part of the whole picture. Oil companies know the days are
numbered, as more and more people turn to alternative sources of energy.
And they want to get all the money out of us that they can -- even if it
means breaking the little guys.
Boycott oil products. Do it as a nation. Do it in numbers big enough to
remind big corporations that we pay the bills, and we know it.
Remember: We hold the purse strings. It's high time we use them. We
either
boycott now or wait until we can't afford to drive to work anymore.
Jim
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