A few years ago, one-day boycotts of gas stations to protest high gas prices were all the rage on social media. If you aren’t familiar with them, consider yourselves lucky. I got sick and tired of educating the economically illiterate year after year about how pointless their proposals were. The idea started as an email chain letter, encouraging the recipients to not purchase gas on a specific date to “stick it” to those greedy Big Oil companies. Later, the derp reached full potato on Facebook.