" MEQUON, Wis. - Motorists pulled in to Harvey Pollack's gas station Thursday, honked and gave him a thumbs-up — because he wasn't selling any fuel.The owner of Towne Market Mobil in this suburb north of Milwaukee shut down his pumps for 24 hours, hoping to start a movement aimed at persuading oil companies to lower their prices.
"Somebody out there is making money at these prices, but not me," said Pollack, 57. "So I just thought: What can I do to help the consumer?"
Some feel that people will simply go elsewhere to get their gasoline. It's true -- some will. What about those who won't? What about the growing number of people that feel prices are out-of-control and are tired of it? Corporations might be surprised to find out just how many dissatisfied consumers there are. Dissatisfied enough to start fighting back by not buying when they can go without.
This could get quite interesting, especially if the United States of America spirit gets involved and all fired up! We are by nature, after all, a very determined breed of people. It just sometimes takes being backed into the corner for that spark to light the fire. And I would say, if we aren't in the corner yet, it's only because we have re-defined what a corner is. Thank goodness people like Harvey Pollack haven't!
3 comments:
Everybody needs to make the same statement
Indeed they do!
that's a really good intention from Harvey Pollack. But I guess the gas price rise is something inevitable. we all aware of that. i'm afraid sometimes it's easier for people just to agree with any new rules and measures imposed instead of fighting for their rights
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