What was the 1970s gas boycott?
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The 1970s gas boycott: In response to U.S. support of Israel and Israel's occupation in Egyptian Territory, OPEC boycott the sale of oil to the United States.  \n\npretty sure this is right unless i am mixing it up with something else ;)
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Mabey we should boycott gas.  Let's say every Tuesday and Thursday nobody buys gas and see what happens....
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There is none, if inflation had followed suit with everything else clothes, food, building supplies etc.It would be over 3 dollars a gallon.The problem is people actually give idiots like micheal moore and al fraken credibility, its uncanny!!!!They have both been proven to be liars.One of the biggest reasons gas prices increase is simply speculative theory!! we went to war for humanitarian reasons, those people want us there they were under dictatorship. clinton sent soliders into Bosnia in 98 and knowone had a problem with that, it was for humanitarian reasons or so we thought.The real problem a lot of people have with this is the time its taking but you cant put a time frame on something like this.
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run run run...from '72...
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supposedly it's because of "weapons of mass destruction." but we all know it's because of the oil. the shitty part is now bush has had us over there 3 years, and the fuckin gas prices are still pushing $3 and probably $4 in summer.
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Mtn Biker, you conveniently left out that Exxon had sales of 330B last year.  Figure 90M into that and it would have almost zero affect (maybe 1/10th of a cent) on gas prices.\n\nI don't really care if you want to put the blame on Bush.  It's the fad these days anyway.  Others have pointed out the supply/demand nature of crude oil, which sets gas prices.  You might argue he could indirectly affect gas prices, but he doesn't affect them directly.  It can be argued both ways, so read up and make your own opinion.\n\nI'd like to point out that an Exxon boycott would do just about nothing because Exxon would end up selling their gas to the other suppliers that weren't being boycotted.  A selective boycott shifts the demand, not decreases it, which is what is needed to lower prices.\n\nThe mythbuster on that urban legend is here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp
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Clue us in. What boycott for what reason?\n Not all of us have heard of it.
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Yes, I am.  But there's not much we can do about it.\n\nEveryone says boycotts won't work.  I'd like to think they would, but they won't.  Here's why:  Everyone boycott's Exxon.  Everyone else pumps more oil to meet demand.  Eventually, they won't be able to keep up, and gas will run out of stations before the next delivery arrives.\n\nEventually, everyone will have to go back to Exxon-providing station for gasoline.  Since everyone will be coming there, Exxon & the gas station will spike their prices, and everyone will be paying throught the 'you-know-what' for gasoline.\n\nYou may think that I'd take a long time, but a one month boycott could trigger these problems, considering the amount of oil the U.S. goes through daily.\n\nExxonMobil's $8.4 Billion is the HIGHEST EVER posted quarterly gain for an oil company, I believe.
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her name was Terry Rakolta and it goes like this:\n\nthe Rakolta Boycott\n\nIn 1989 Terry Rakolta, a homemaker from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, led a boycott against Married... with Children after viewing the episode "Her Cups Runneth Over - 0306"[1]. Offended by the images of an old man wearing a garter and stockings, a homosexual man and a woman who bared her breasts, Rakolta began a letter-writing campaign to advertisers, demanding they boycott the show.\n\nAfter advertisers began dropping their support for the show and while Rakolta made several appearances on television talk shows, Fox executives refused to air the episode titled "I'll See You In Court - 0308"[2]. This episode would become known as the "Lost Episode" and was aired on FX on June 18, 2002. The episode was packaged with the rest of the third season in the January 2005 DVD release.\n\nDuring the boycott, ratings for Married... with Children rose due to interest in the show caused by Rakolta's crusade to have the show canceled. The increased number of viewers kept the show on the air until 1997. According to sources on the set, the producers sent Rakolta a fruit basket every Christmas as a way of saying "Thank you."\n\nRakolta has been referenced twice on the show: "Rock and Roll Girl - 0414"[3] when a newscaster mentioned the city Bloomfield Hills, and "No Pot To Pease In - 0909"[4] when a television show was made about the Bundy family, then canceled because (according to Marcy) "Some woman in Michigan didn't like it."
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I used to buy a product from Exxon called Varsol.  You can use gasoline also.
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It was the Vietnam War.  Millions of gallons were used.  A whole lot.  Look it up on Wikipedia or do a google search.
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I think this link might help\n\nhttp://www.savhs68.com/remember_1968.htm\nI just googled some sites in the price of gas(since I don't think it is mentioned on the above site) what I got was it was 25 cents a gallon
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I noticed that you left out any sort of specifics regard the situation in this "small town in east Tennessee."  How can you actually confirm that their "gross sales are down trememdously."  They could be selling their fuel to the next gas station over for the same price that you would have paid originally.  That's the whole reason why boycotts don't work.  Because all gas stations around the country are in cahoots with each other.\n\nAnyway, here's the mythbuster for this urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp
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Although I wasn't born until Jan.'43, that date had an impact on my life through hearing the stories of my parents' sacrifices then and knowing that it was not until 1949 before my father could finally buy a new car, a 1948 model, because war production halted personal cars on the market. I heard of blackouts, and training my father conducted for espionage to oil and gasoline supplies (He was in this business) and my mother's "Victory Garden" and her weekly stint rolling bandages for the Red Cross. Meat was limited, rationed, so the troops could have it, and many other products were unavailable, as I was told. Years later, I studied the war itself in Europe and in the Pacific and was struck by the valor on all sides faced with the most extreme conditions, but also the humor of American GIs, often depicted by cartoonist Bill Mauldin.
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iraq was invaded for its gas...fuel
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1974 and not from a ham sandwich
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Gas got too expensive. Keep an eye out for bike-bys, skateboard-bys and rollerblade-bys.