Gas out?
I keep getting these forwards from people, exhorting me to not fill up on gas on May 15th, in an attempt to strike a fatal deathblow to all Middle Eastern oil producers, by making them… slightly… less… profitable… for one day.
Anyway, the email doesn’t give me any guidance as to how I get my car moving that day. I only fill up once a week, but that gas takes me places for an entire week. Should we all forgo cars and trucks for an entire week? Why don’t we all walk or ride bikes to work? Sounds like a “green” idea to be sure, but a tremendous waste of time and energy.
We may inflict a few billion in lost profit on the Arabs, but what about the damage here? What about the billions and billions of lost productivity and profits for American companies, employees, and consumers? Or the billions of people around the world that consume the goods and services we produce?
So tell me… is this email a product of economic ignorance or a clever stratagem to bring down the U.S. economy as we know it? You decide.