now it's time to have some course of action, if we can effect their end maybe they lean on who y'all think the real problem is and push leads to shove and the line gets moved.
You replied not at all to my comment as to similarities to gun control. If you read what you wrote in that sentence, you want to punish the oil companies in hopes that that will lead to a change when they revolt and create push back against something or someone.
The liberal side of .gov wants to punish ammunition manufacturers and gun manufacturers in a fruitless endeavor to solve the symptoms of the issue instead of solving the real issue which is wholly not gun related.
See it now?
You're upset with big oil for raping you at the pump. You want to punish big oil through some misbegotten notion that a boycott of their product for a couple of days will have the intended effect of taking away money from them.
Big Oil did not-
Shut down pipelines.
Shut down refinery capacity due to lower demand.
Make folks stay home and shut down the economy.
Send out free stimulus checks.
Send out billions in unrepaid employment loans.
Clog up the ports with excess spending.
Restrict the sale of oil and gas leases.
Increase our dependence on foreign oil.
Compel Increased mileage and reduce emissions in vehicles.
Those are just a few things that .gov did that are causing YOU to spend more at the pump. You're reacting to the symptom and trying to punish the entity with the least effect on how we got here.
Our government is fucking big oil hard. If Big Oil were to do anything to lower prices at the pump at the request of the .gov, it would only be a short term recess until our government is right back to fucking them hard again. You can't fuck someone over as hard as our government does to Big Oil and then in turn expect help in the form of lower prices at the pump when they know that the instant the public's attention is diverted elsewhere, they will go right back to fucking Big Oil harder.
I want the prices at the pump to go higher and cause more pain. At some point it may become painful enough that folks stop and really find a way to correlate their dumbass vote to how much they actually fucked themselves and the rest of us. There are consequences and folks need to realize that.