Re: Can this work ?
Nope – it won’t work…
This is pretty much the same as those No-Gas-Day on blah blah dates… which don’t work either. I’ve highlighted the reasons for this earlier in one or two other threads but the jist of it is that the demand for gas is price inelastic when it comes to the average consumer… just having a No-Gas Day or not buying gas from specific stations is simply going to shift the demand to other days or other stations.
I’m not saying that consumers can’t “band together” … but something like that requires longer term planning and sacrifice. Alas, the average consumer is willing to band together but not really sacrifice. It’s the same thing as going on a hunger strike by assigning shifts to people :) – you’re willing to participate as long as you don’t actually starve.
These No-Gas days or Boycotting stations are just examples of marginally inconveniencing ourselves by filling up a day in advance or a day late or filling up from the station across the street… BUT are we willing to make a real difference by taking the bus to work, or biking for a whole week? a whole month?? I didn’t think so.