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Originally Posted by getbak
Yeah, it's like those "don't buy gas today and gas prices will go down" things. If you still drive around, you'll have to eventually buy that gas.
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I don't know, I see some differences between this and the gas boycotts, mostly because there are alternatives to consumerism, but it's much more difficult to find alternatives to gas (at least at an individual micro-level). If you boycott gas for a day, so you just fill up on another day...
Plus the day after American Thanksgiving is the biggest commercial retail day of the year. Corporations really push to get people out and shopping, if you watch American channels, you will see this. Some store, I think it's Sears, opens at 5:00 am on Friday.
Who the hell wants to go shopping at 5 in the morning?!??!
So, this one day symbolizes something, rather than the gas boycotts.