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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So you've chosen your side in this. No one needs to feel bad about the problems it'll cause for you if and when it comes time to start blowing up refineries.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Correct. The problems of a blown up refinery will affect the oil producers first. The problems of obstructing traffic will affect the oil producers never.

Picket the oil infrastructure. Make it expensive and unreliable, and consumers will gravitate away from it. The problems it will cause are not a big, but a feature.

[–] snowbell@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It could be said that blocking traffic benefits oil producers by increasing gasoline usage and making people less sympathetic to the cause against them. Wasn't there a case of someone in the oil industry paying people to protest in a similarly asinine way?