| | don brown said "Let''s take a poll and decide which gas bar to boycott, I''ll go first, I say the Co-op on eighteenth.
Remember folks, it''s not personal, it''s business. Anyone who's in business realizes there''s good times and then there''s bad times.
Edited by don brown, 2017-06-14 11:51:45" |
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I haven't had much of anything to do with the oil companies since the late '70s, but back then a franchisee had no control over the price fuel was selling for, but his personal income was determined by the amount of product he sold. Both he and his family might find it personal if you boycott his business for any reason.
A company owned station that employs a manager and staff won't be affected the same way of course, not sort term anyway. Any long lasting boycott could result in layoffs or station closure, then it becomes personal again.
Not that it matters though, I think it's near impossible to organize a boycott. Getting people to all agree on which station or company to boycott would be harder than getting all people to vote for the same political party.
The bottom line is, the way the world works today we pretty much need a certain amount of fuel to operate, we seem unable to do without it. The fuel is going to be bought from someone. No one company is ever going to suffer long term over a boycott. We (consumers), for whatever reasons, just won't get organized enough for it to work.