Here is a thought. Back it the 70's gas rationing did have an effect on the oil companies. I have gotten many emails naming a "boycott" date where we are supposed to not buy gas to send the companies a message. This never worked and will never work because sooner or later we have to buy gas. If not on the day of the embargo then a couple of days later. However, certain gas companies do not receive their oil from the Middle East. If the average consumer patronizes only those companies that don't get oil from the Middle East, then a real embargo is possible. I got a chain type email with this as the subject. I haven't sent it on, because if most are like me they would ignore it. If anyone is interested in joining this movement, send me an email:
tamlindd@yahoo.com and I'll forward it to you. To my mind, this makes sense and is worth a go. The companies that sell non-Middle East gasoline are:
Citgo......................0 barrels
Sunoco...................0 barrels
Conoco..................0 barrels
Sinclair.................0 barrels
BP/Phillips............0 barrels
Hess.......................0 barrels
ARC0....................0 barrels
The message continues:
All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions
of gas buyers. It's really simple to do.
Now, don't wimp out at this point.... keep reading and I'll
explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!
I'm sending this note to about thirty people.
If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) .. and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers !!!!!!!
If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten
friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!
If it goes one level further, you guessed it .. THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How long would all that take?
I know that these schemes often have their critics, I have always been one of them, but this one I am going to support by not continuing to buy from companies marketing Middle East oil.
I agree that this is probably a good wake up call, but I greatly resent what I feel is manipulation by the gas merchants to milk the situation. I guess I am a mad cow.