Why won't the USA make a combined effort to lower gas prices? If we attacked one oil company and stopped fueling from them would that work?
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Nate the Great
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why would the goverment want to stop their budddies from making a profit. Do you Know what job dubya held before he was president?
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The major oil companies would not care if we boycotted one of them. Let's suppose we all boycott Mobil. Since we're not buying gas at Mobil stations, we'll have to buy our gas somewhere else. Mobil will simply sell its gasoline on the wholesale market to whichever gas stations are being used. They may not make quite as much profit as selling through their Mobil-brand stations, but they won't lose much money (if any). Boycotting a particular chain of gas stations makes as much sense as boycotting a particular fast-food restaurant in an effort to get cattle ranchers to change their ways.
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If we boycotted ONE fuel company, that means we'd still have to buy from another company. The other company would likely RAISE their price, since they know we have no choice but to buy from them, so they can pretty much charge whatever they want. So, in the long run, that would be totally counterproductive and we'd end up paying far more for gas than we do now.
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Any kind of effort like that would fall flat because if you boycott one oil company, that doesn't mean you're not contributing to the oil industry as a whole, you're still feeding the beast, just through a different mouth. The only way to make any effective attack againts high petrol prices would be to find and fully incorporate alternative fuel sources, and boycott fossil fuels altogether, and I doubt if that's going to happen any time in the near future, because the political sector as a whole, for all their talk of "Going Green", doesn't give a shit about it. Lower petrol prices just aren't good for the "Economy" (I.e. Keeping the lower class in their place while making a profit out of them).
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