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What if they gave Gas Out and nobody came?
That’s the whole idea, actually, of an Internet-fired fuel boycott today. Don’t buy gasoline on April 30, an e-mail missive directs, and somehow the suddenly high price of gasoline will “drop drastically.”
The logic may not be clear but the outrage behind “The Great Gas Out” is unmistakable:
“It’s time we did something about the price of gasoline in America!” proclaims the e-mail message, which began whipping around the Web about six weeks ago.
Oil company representatives have said that a one-day slowdown probably would not make much of a difference in price.
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