Cross-posted from And The Horse You Rode In On
I want to suggest something I don’t know how to organize. Maybe somebody out there does.
How about a national Don’t-Drive Sunday?
Just stay at home for a day. If you skip 50 miles of driving, you’ll probably save $10 on gas plus whatever you would have spent when you got there. Use the money to pay down a credit card charging you 23% interest or a Sears account charging 33%.
A national Don’t-Drive Sunday would put a dent in Exxon Mobil’s obscene profits. Give Hugo Chavez,
Dick Cheney, and some Arab princes pause for thought. Remind WalMart and other stores you don’t visit that day that they (and their lobbyists) have a stake in alternative fuels. Remind Congress we’ve seen through the $3+ gasoline and we know they’re in on the game.
Of course not everybody would, or even could, participate. It doesn’t matter. Even a 10% or 20% participation rate would save consumers at least a billion dollars and would rattle a lot of smug assumptions by people who think they were born to rule.
They do understand the language of money.
If consumers stay home, the jig is up. And a one-day consumer boycott now would remind them, there could be a much larger, longer, wider consumer strike in store.