Re: Send a Message to "Big Oil"

On 2008-04-16, Dana Rohleder <boreal@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Join the Boycott of Exxon Oil Products

Dude, look up "fungible".  Here, I'll help:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility

> I am inviting you to join with other citizens in sending a
> message to "BIG OIL" that we are fed up with record oil
> product prices while oil cor****ations quietly are enjoying
> record profits. We have chosen Exxon Oil as the target of the
> boycott because they are reaping the highest profits, but have
> yet to settle their court-determined financial obligations to
> the Alaskan fi****ng industry from the Exxon Valdez disaster
> nearly a generation ago now.

You're not sending any message except that you don't understand
how market-driven economics works.  You can't "not buy Exxon
oil products" unless you just plain stop buying oil products
and products that are produced using oil products.

That said, buying and consuming less stuff is an admirable
goal, and I wish you luck with it.  Let's just stop pretending
that bying oil products from one particular gas station instead
of a different one is help/hurting anybody except the local
people who happen to own and work in the gas stations in
question.

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