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There’s an email that goes around whenever gas prices go up. It’s this crazy scheme that if nobody buys gasoline on a given day, the gas companies will have so much extra inventory that they would have to drop the price to get rid of the backlog.

Some idiot started that email. And every time I get it, I just delete it and figure that the sender isn’t smart enough to know that one day of not buying gas won’t have any impact at all on gas stations.

Don Wildmon sent me another email today. He wants me to reduce my gas usage by 3% and really put the crunch on the gas companies. If I lower my demand, their supply goes up, and my price goes down. Well, that’s just stupid. As soon as their price comes down, Don would declare victory over the gas stations, and everyone would go back to their normal activity, driving demand back up.

If old Don had sent this message to me only, I would have just done what I always do: laugh at the sender and delete the message. But no. Don saw fit to send this to the thousands on his mailing list. He even wants us to sign a pledge. Yeah, that will make a difference.

Come on, Don! Isn’t there some company supporting gays that you could pick on? Or shouldn’t we rant about how Target is doing something evil? Maybe we could gripe and complain to a television channel about their low morals in programming. I’ve mentioned before that I think most of Don’s coalition pointless, but this is just over the top.

If you really want to save on gas, sell the gas hog V8 SUV and buy a little Honda Civic. Then you’ll be free to gripe about how Honda makes their cars too small.