"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Weren't just about the same folks now calling for a boycott of CITGO
demanding that everybody smash all of their Dixie Chicks CD's a couple
of years ago? The DC's seem to be back stronger than ever now

Nope. The Dixie Chicks had to cancel numerous concert dates across this
country due to poor ticket sales, and replace them with concerts in
Canada.


It's probably a rare day that we can both be reasonably right on the
same issue, NOYB.
Record sales are through the roof right now for the Chicks.

Thanks to the international market.

Last album
sold over a half million copies in the first week! One of the reasons
their concerts didn't sell very well in the south didn't have much to
do with the fans.

Sure it did. It had *alot* to do with the insults they hurled at Bush, and
the insults they hurled at country fans in general (remember the spat with
Reba McIntyre?)



After all, somebody is buying all those records,
aren't they?

Yup.
Canadians, Australians, and the Brits.

? The biggest problems the Chicks had was that certain radio
stations, notably those owned by the network that airs Rush Limbaugh
(and that can be all of the stations in a lot of smaller communities)
refused to allow the promoters to buy advertising time on their radio
stations.

The biggest problem the Chicks had was their mouths.


From an article on the net:

I'm not interested in what some blogger decided to write on the readily
editable Wikipedia.






But here's a practical suggestion for you. I would suspect that, unlike
roadside filling stations, CITGO probably doesn't own very many of the
fuel docks. It would be more likely that the fuel docks are privately
owned and buy fuel from CITGO wholesale (so part of your money supports
an independent American small businessperson who probably votes a lot
like you do- see how complicated this can get?) If you have a privately
owned fuel dock selling CITGO fuel and you *really* feel strongly about
the situation, get up a petition signed by yourself and several other
people on the dock *requesting* that the fuel dock owner switch to a
different brand of fuel.


Why get a petition? He'll get the point more effectively when he sees
declining fuel sales.

No, the point here is that he probably *won't* see any declining fuel
sales if (as in most locations) there isn't another fuel dock in the
immediate vicinity.

You're discounting the fact that people can turn to mobile fueling services.