Does a One-day Gas Boycott Have Any Impact?

You may have received a forwarded message in your email inbox lately with the following subject: Don’t pump gas on May 15th!!

The idea is that if everyone who sees the email will refuse to fill up their tank on that day “it would take $2,292,000,000.00 (that’s almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companies pockets for just one day.

Sounds good, until you think about it. Everyone who doesn’t buy fuel that day will have to hit the pumps in the following days, so we figure that those sales will even out Wednesday’s losses. (MORE)

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