Peter Andersen Symbolic Quotations

What it might just do is move whatever gauging is going on back to the supplier or the refinery. If it has any positive effects, they are probably more symbolic than real.

What we've got here is an ordinance with a lot of loopholes. What we've got here is a City Council trying to win favor with the people, trying to do the right thing to protect the people, but probably more of a symbolic gesture than a real gesture.