Re: [BLUG] Gas & the 15th

Well said.
Jeff

Dave Monnier REN-ISAC wrote:
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> Andrew Poland wrote:
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>> or am I missing
>> something?
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>> Andrew
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> I don't think you are.
>
> If everyone switched to riding bikes for N days/months from the 15th on.
> Then *maybe* it would make some kind of difference. Not buying gas for one
> day does not. It's simply not that kind of product. What you don't buy on
> the 15th you will on the 16th. Additionally, consumers aren't buying gas
> from the oil companies deciding the prices, they buy it from regular
> schmoes who own gas stations and pay to put the name of some oil company on
> their sign. Those people *pay for the gas in advance*. All we'll do is
> screw some guy who owns a gas station by making him pay some employees
> hourly wage that day while not bringing in money from selling gas. It
> doesn't hurt the oil company, they've been paid already.
>
> All economic tom-foolery aside, can we keep the list mostly about Linux?
> Surely everyone has already received a few of these forwards from their
> relatives who play the forwarding game.
>
> - -Dave
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