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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
It boils down to this: Boycotting an oil company (or all of them) is next to impossible in today's world. If you really want to do it, you'd have to go live naked in the rain forest with nothing but yourself and kill small animals with your bare hands to survive. Because the reality is, everything in this world is either made directly from oil, or oil is used in it's production. Including food and electric cars. Buying or not-buying is not even a question. Anything you buy can be traced back to oil.
So I guess my answer would be no, people do not have a choice. If you have anything... right down to the clothes on your back, you are in the oil system.
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1. Boycott only means you dont buy nor advocate buying *directly* from that one company (not the whole industry unless you intend to boycott the whole industry).
2. To further the boycott, you may extend it to other people,groups,unions,agencies,corps,institutions if you have actual specific knowledge that they buy from the boycotted company (not only from the industry - unless boycotting the whole industry). The exception to this rule is if you need something to survive.
For example, I boycott tax collectors. I dont give them any money in order to resist some government actions and inactions. However, many (or most) people do pay taxes (directly to gov agents). Its not my fault if the supermarket continues to pay taxes directly to gov agents (from the money I spend there). I need the food to survive. So, I continue to buy food (from a tax paying supermarket).
If I could buy food from a non-tax paying store, I would, but those food stores are unknown to me and I will not refuse to eat because some politicans, judges, police, bureaucrats created this situation and continue to extort taxes from the supermarket. In order to survive, I have no other choice but to buy from companies which violate my personal boycotts (which is giving money to tax collectors).