I checked out "Urban Legends" website about the email on "Don't Buy Gas on May 19th" and here are some comments about it:

Comments: With U.S. gasoline prices at a 13-year high, it's understandable that consumers are fed up and hankering for relief, but it's fair to ask whether mass-forwarding yet another "boycott gas" chain letter will achieve the desired result. Based on past experience, the answer is: not likely.

There are two glaring flaws in the approach:

A successful boycott requires a sustained, organized effort by a large number of participants; randomly circulating a chain letter amounts to no organization at all. And we know from http://www.ucan.org/News/UnionTrib/3%2D12%2D03/SignOnSanDiego%5Fcom%2520%2520News%2520%2520Business%2520%2D%2D%2520E%2Dmail%2520urges%2520boycott%2520of%2520fuel%2520from%2520Exxon%2520Mobil.h> past attempts that no matter how many people jump on the bandwagon, actual participation in email-driven boycotts is spotty and ultimately negligible.

It's illogical. Refusing to buy gasoline on one particular day of the month won't affect the oil companies' overall sales or profits. Why not? Because everyone who skips buying gasoline on May 19 will be filling their tanks on the 20th. An effective boycott would require consuming less fuel, not just buying it on one day instead of another. The claim that a one-day boycott would result in an industry loss of over $4.6 billion is a pure fabrication, by the way. According to http://www.euromonitor.com/Gasoline%5FStation%5FRetailing%5Fin%5FUnited%5FStates> Euromonitor International, the total sales of petroleum products for all U.S. gas stations in 2002 was $205 billion, which works out to just over a half-billion dollars a day.


SO WE REALLY NEED TO DO OUR PART AND DO SOMETHING SUSTAINABLE, AND WORTHWHILE! GET RID OF THE SUV'S, DRIVE LESS, CARPOOL, RIDE A BIKE, WALK (WHAT A CONCEPT, BUT SOMETHING WE WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO DO SOONER OR LATER) AND BUY LESS FUEL! 

WE ALSO NEED TO COMPLAIN TO EVERY CONGRESSMAN/WOMAN AND ASK WHY OUR TROOPS ARE PROTECTING HALIBURTON ISTEAD OF HALIBURTAN HIRING THEIR OWN MERCENARIES TO PROTECT THEIR INTERESTS OVER IN IRAQ AND THE REST OF THE WORLD!

BRING OUR BOYS AND GALS HOME AND PROTECT OUR OWN BORDERS ! PUT THEM TO WORK FOR THE IMIGRATION SYSTEM AND MOVE ALL THE ILLEGALS OUT! HEY , IT COULD WORK!

KEEP IT GOING! WE DO HAVE A VOICE, LETS USE IT!