Do not buy into "boycott" scam

Sometime in the days before May 15th, you will get some sort of chain-mail message asking you to take part in a so-called "gas boycott". To save you the time and effort in trying to forward this to me and have me tear it to shreds, I'm going to engage in a little preventative strike.

I've researched this over at Snopes.com and came up with something interesting about this so-called "boycott": the same message keeps on recycling itself every year since 1999! In fact the message being circulated this year is almost verbatim to what was being spread in 2006!

Check it out! http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp

In short, boys and girls, the whole "boycott" idea is a HOAX. It wouldn't even work to do what claims to do because the price of gas is not based on daily sales, but rather on inventory. As long as you buy gas before or after the 15th, then you're wasting your time... which is what the gas companies want you to do anyway.

So the next time you come across some MySpace bulletin or some email mass-post from one of your friends or relatives asking you to take part in some "gas-out", kindly tell them that they are taking part in a hoax and then point them to the Snopes website for the TRUTH.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp

Oh, and make sure you don't spread those phony "boycott" message around. Spread this message around instead.

If you REALLY want to hurt the gas companies, then STOP DRIVING!