Let's boycott an oil company?

Question

like Exxon-Mobil..since they have been known to reap the highest profits.

Answer 1

I say we all convert to cars taht run off of rubbing alcohol and they only emit water...or walking.  Walking is good.

Answer 2

All that will do is send your money to some other oil company and give them the highest profit.

Answer 3

Lets keep letting the libs in congress trick fools like you into blaming oil companies rather than those same congressional libs who won't allow more drilling and refineries in the US.

Answer 4

let's not.

Answer 5

You can not boycott one oil company.  If you want to boycott one, you have to boycott all, by not buying any gas, ever.  This is why, and please read carefully:

The oil industry is a global industry.  If one company has a surplus it sells it to another company at the same rate.  so if Exxon-Mobile were to be 'boycotted' (which is impossible), it would sell all its extra oil to Shell or BP so they don't have to refine so much.  The price of all companies would continue to stay the same for gas.

or...

Let's say they don't sell to one another (which they do), then Exxon-Mobile would have a bigger supply and the other companies would have a smaller one.  This would increase the price of all other gas stations but Exxon-Mobile.  Then guess what????  People will only buy Exxon-Mobile because it has the cheapest gas around!  Then everything will be back to normal, because Exxon-mobile didnt need to lower prices because everyone else was already higher.

Answer 6

let's look around and see if we really have a problem with what we are driving.  Does the car you drive get 30mpg.  If it doesn't it is part of the problem.  We could bring the whole oil cartel to its knees if we would stop driving, carpool, get cheaper cars.  I've had two cars in my life that got 50+ and 40+ mpg.  One in the 80's and one in 90's.  So what are we doing, cutting off our nose to spite our face.  We can do it, we can erase our dependence on foreign oil, but it will have to be a team effort.

Answer 7

you have better chance of having lunch with Elvis and the Easter bunny. people just want to keep driving. the oil companies know it and just enjoy the windfall. don quiote rides again.