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I sure as hell didnt. Might as well boycott buying gas, anything to get the prices lower is worth a shot.
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Boycotts only work where there are alternatives. Boycotting a restaurant, for example, means you eat at other restaurants or eat at home. As a nation and as a society we can't function without gas, unless you're part of a lucky minority who can bike or walk to work/school. I've personally cut out any wasteful trips in my car wherever I can, but there's no way I could completely cut out gasoline consumption. If things get real bad this summer I may offer to carpool with others and charge a small fee.
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  Looks like someone fell for this hoax.   
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I sure as hell didnt.
Probably because you didn't need to.
I wanna know what genius thought of this "boycott" idea.
Notice that the boycott was not to stop using gas for a day, it was to not buy it for a day.
If your consumption doesn't change, neither will the revenues. You just filled up the day before or the day after to 'avoid' purchasing gas on a particular day so you could teach 'the man' a lesson. So what? They just got their money the day before/after.
Way to stick it to 'em!
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Originally posted by HITMANinMI:
I sure as hell didnt. Might as well boycott buying gas, anything to get the prices lower is worth a shot.
I bought fuel last weekend and I'm still on "F". 
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Boycotting gas?
Might as well boycott air...
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I hear the feminazi's are organizing a girlcott against the term "boycott".
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Originally posted by JaTo:
Boycotting gas?
Might as well boycott air...
 BLAHAHAHAHA!
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Here is the Month to Date tally for work in the Geo Prizm:
Total Cost of Fuel: $134.71
Total Volume of Fuel: 72.11 gallons
Distance Driven: 2446 miles as of yesterday's fillup
Cost of fuel/mile $0.06
Avg cost of fuel/gallon $1.87
Avg Fuel Economy 33.92 MPG
Car allowance and expense reimbursements this month for mileage to date ~$700
Real cost to operate car/mile $0.16 as of yesterday's fillup.
Cost of fuel is only 37.5% of the total cost of operating this vehicle.
For a frame of reference, this is a $2500 car, that I've paid a grand total of $4800.94 in a hair over 13 months (ok, 57 weeks.) This is ALL costs, purchase, insurance, maintenance, repair, tax, tags, etc.
Big deal about gas prices. If gas is only 37.5% of a 2500 car that I drive over 26K miles/year, then those who are operating more expensive machines fewer miles are paying even less as the percentage of operating costs to drive.
So stop whining, if you want to save real money, buy a beater, stop making payments, and carry only liability insurance.
I'll bet a bunch of you will pay more in interest on your car loans than you pay in gas costs.
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ps, I'm not a control freak, I can deduct my work related miles, so I track this sort of thing.
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Thats nice that you have the ability to do that. However, people like me can't do that. My car is paid off, I have state min. liability, and I am a college student, and an aviation major (10 hours a week of flying). Gas used to be $1.45/gal here, and I paid $18 in gas every 7 days or so. Thats about $75 in gas a month. Today gas has hit $1.91, bringing my monthly bill to about $100 a month. $25 a month on top of rent, bills, food, car repair, etc is a big deal for me. And this is with me conserving gas as best as I can. And on top of that the prices on alot of things are going up to compensate for the increase in gas and cattle feed prices.
Oh and on top of that I lost my job yesterday because they couldn't work around my school and flying schedule anymore (so yeah, no more telemarketing for me, darn!) As happy as I am to be out of that job, it couldn't have come at worse time, I have to move into another apartment thats $40 a month more (long story, but I HAVE to move.)
Im not looking for sympathy, I am just trying to make the point that while higher gas prices might be an annoyance to some people, to other people it really hits them hard. -Nick
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