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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Leto
Gas company customers. When I look for alternatives, I am looking for options that would involve me using less of the product, thereby driving me away. I become less dependant on it.
- Vehicles that use less gas (hybrids, efficiency)
- alternative vehicles (scooters, motorcycles, bicycles)
- creative options (carpooling, autoshare or zip car programmes)
- purchase behaviour (reduced quantity at a single purchase, feuling based on dollar amount versus litres or fillup)
These are all ways to drive people away from using gasoline. My overall consumption has dropped in just the last two months. I live in what I would call a varied climate, yet I can manage to ride my bike through almost all except the most extreme temps. There are times when it isn't convenient, which are the times that I rely on my car.
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I don't see that still. Even if you don't use gas in your car, you still use lots of petroleum based and products that could not have been created without petroleum. Plastics and machinining all require some sort of petroleum. The keyboard you are typing on, the mouse you are clicking with all have varing amounts of plastic which is derived from petroleum.
Just because you use your phone less doesn't send a message to AT&T that you're unhappy with their rates, LEAVING them as a customer is. If talking as a whole industry and you change from POTS to Wireless or even to Internet based... you're talking about customers being driven away.
So you are saying more like stretching your dollar spent on gas. I don't see that as "driving" them away. It's more like making the user of gas stretch their gas mileage out. If you are being driven away as a customer you'll do much more radical things like biking and walking to work. That is something I'll agree to as customers who have been driven away.
But if you are still using the product being offered... sorry you're not driven away, you're being mindful of how much you spend on the product.
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