you're kidding right?

Okay this is obnoxiuos. How many times did I get that stupid FWD about not buying gas today.

People, honestly - not buying gas for one day is not going to make the least bit of an impact! If you don't buy it today, you'll buy it tomorrow. The gas stations don't care. They'll sell their "stockpile" to you tomorrow.

Here's an analogy. My dept runs daily TPS reports that are distributed to all employees and need to be reviewed on a daily basis. Today, we have the day off, nobody is using paper to print out reports. But tomorrow, when everybody comes back we will need paper to print the reports from both the previous day and the current day. Day off did not affect the paper supply.

If you want to make a difference, our society has to lower our overall consumption of gas. That means car pooling or taking public transportation. or biking. or telecommuting(like moi.) even on a semi-regular basis, it will make a significant difference.

So, we can conclude that if my dept decided to distribute one copy of a TPS report to 5 employees and make them share it = we would use less paper. Or, if we combined all of the daily numbers into one weekly TPS total = we would use less paper. Or, if TPS reports were circulated electronically = we would use no paper! OR, if we trashed the whole TPS reporting system, quit our jobs and moved to an island - the only paper we would use would be to wipe our bums.


As an additional aside:
I would personally not take any advice from the same medium that tries to sell ME viagra and assures me that Bill Gates wants to give me a free vacation to Disney World and if I don't forward a cutesy obnoxious love poem to everybody I know - I will be cursed with bad luck for 11 years, turn into a dog and have snake eggs hatch in my gums.