Tom over at A View from the Cave has been lucky enough to attend the Development Research Institute’s conference in New York City last week, and he is kind enough to share with his readers what has been discussed at the conference.
Today, Tom blogged Yaw Nyarko’s presentation, titled “Information Technology and Development.” I am grateful to Nyarko for the following (and to Tom for blogging about it):
Why “Gas Strikes” Make Absolutely No Sense
I just saw this on Facebook:
“OKAY! WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!! Gas Strike March 10th! This worked once before…let’s try it again. On March 10 if everyone does not buy gas for one day, it will hurt the oil companies. It’s time we stood up to them. We CAN have a voice…REMEMBER “MARCH” 10th DO NOT BUY GAS! Please repost this to as many people as you can…it is urgent that this spreads like wildfire!
PS: Try not to fill up the day before or after so that this day will have an impact on the companies
Thanks”
Annoying statements in ALL CAPS and questionable punctuation (or lack thereof) aside, I just wanted to state for the record that this is a really, really stupid idea.