{"id":8877,"date":"2011-04-18T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T14:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2011-04-18T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T14:01:08","slug":"toronto-area-gas-station-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/toronto-area-gas-station-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto area gas station boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgreaves.com\/Boycott\/Lowering%20Gas%20Prices.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Greaves<\/a> (who doesn&#8217;t even <em>own<\/em> a car) looks at the possibility of using weekly boycott targets in an attempt to force oil companies to lower the retail price of gasoline in Toronto:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Consider therefore a web site for the GTA which announced as the next boycott period approached that the new target was \u201cShell\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Those drivers who subscribe to the mass-boycott idea would avoid buying gas at Shell and, being evangelical, would tell their friends and colleagues that \u201cShell\u201d was the target this period.<\/p>\n<p>The question is \u201cWho picks the target?\u201d and the answer is simple: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontogasprices.com\/GasPriceSearch.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">torontogasprices<\/a> already announces the highest and lowest price for gas in the GTA. Score +1 against that company with the highest gas price at a random time each day. Then pick the company with the highest score. Over a short period, the company with the highest prices would float to the top of the list and be ready for a boycott.<\/p>\n<p>In order to avoid any hint of collusion and legal attack, the web site would be hosted as a private web site, a blog perhaps, with the views expressed being solely those of the individual. There can be no legal complaint against an individual blogging and\/or tweeting a disarmingly simple statement \u201cThis week I am boycotting Shell\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Greaves (who doesn&#8217;t even own a car) looks at the possibility of using weekly boycott targets in an attempt to force oil companies to lower the retail price of gasoline in Toronto: Consider therefore a web site for the GTA which announced as the next boycott period approached that the new target was \u201cShell\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[111,484,207],"class_list":["post-8877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","tag-cars","tag-competition","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2jb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8878,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions\/8878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}