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Subject: Re: additionally...

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bannee

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Date Posted: 16:22:18 04/12/02 Fri
In reply to: Kevin 's message, "additionally..." on 12:12:34 04/12/02 Fri

Not many people will go to the mini-mart at Exxon if they are getting their gas at Sinclair, so your logic is faulty.

Of COURSE it FEELS good, to THINK you're hurting the enemy. (I'd love to kick them below the financial belt) BUT, this endeavor hurts the WRONG people... local businessmen take the brunt of the financial loss, and the ME oil tycoon feels AT MOST a teeney tiny blip which will be immediately resolved by selling elsewhere. Oil is too global of a market for tiny local boycotts to have impact on anybody other than the local guy trying to make a living.

This boycott is more likely to result in college students who work at the mini-mart counter getting laid off, than hurting the financial portfolio of any ME oil tycoon/investor

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Author: bannee [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 17:25:17 04/12/02 Fri you could dump all your stocks and mutual funds that invest in Exxon, et. THAT would be a clearer, louder more meaningful statement, that's for sure. But, that would likely impose a financial loss on YOURSELF instead of on Joe Franchise. Still willling? hmmmm?