Many of you have probably seen the e-mails floating around lately trying to get everyone to "boycott" buying gas on a specific day. Well, yesterday was that day. Did you skip buying gas? Did it have any effect?

The answer to that last one is no it did not have any effect.

There's no way that a single day boycott, even if EVERYONE were involved, would be enough to effect the gas companies. It's just not enough impact. It will only cause people to buy more gas the day before or the day after. To have any sort of impact, you'd have to boycott for days or weeks. At that point it wouldn't work because people would start to 'need' gas again. Also, if we were successful in lasting long enough to actually cause a price decrease (even just a couple cents), there would be plenty of people that would jump ship right away to get the new low price. This would just cause prices to go back to their normal state.

So, at this point, it's unlikely that we'll see any successful gas boycott. Our whole society needs to change its mindset before anything like this could ever work.