frogza

I got an email today, as I'm sure many have by now, that has a new plan to get the price of gas lower. Essentially it calls for a boycott of Exxon/Mobil, the biggest gas company in the US. The hope is that if nobody buys their gas they'll we respond by lowering their prices. Hopefully this causes a price war and gets everyone else to follow suit. The boycott ends once prices reach $1.50 per gallon. That's the basic rundown of the idea.

It seems to me like this would work. It would take millions of people participating in order to be noticed though. Unlike the "Don't buy gas day" which was fatally flawed from the get-go, this seems like something that could be drawn out long enough to get the execs to pay attention. The drawback is that many gas stations are locally owned, so those local owners would feel the pinch first

Does anyone see a flaw in this idea?