Have you boycotted BP???

[Dylan]

I am furious and will never stop at a BP gas station ever again.

Here in NYC, there are many that claim to end business relations with BP.

How upset are you?

Accidents happen. Even to the best of us.

But, there's a definite cover my ass policy going on here; not a 'lets fix the problem.'

Word is Bp is preparing to break up its businesses and separating them from the USA part. ie. Obama is on the warpath and changing law to hang BP. Bp in response is leaving the country and saying f ya'll. The whole ordeal is sparking a USA v Britain war.

And oh, there's a soccer game tomorrow.

There are some that are saying alot of British pensions are on the line.

Have you boycotted BP?

[LianLi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM&feature=player_embedded

[Balis]

Hello

Personally everyone is all EMO about this, we as a human race have given into PANIC and are not all thinking right.

Boycotts rarly work, and if BP goes under who will be stuck with the bill. The US tax payers.

So lets all calm down and look at the facts.

Let’s look at the facts:

- The Deepwater Horizon was owned by Transocean Ltd. However, it was leased by a British energy company, known as BP. BP, not Transocean Ltd., will presumably be held responsible for the cleanup costs of the oil spill.

-Oil naturally seeps into the ocean all the time at a rate of 62 million Gallons a Year.

-Nature has a way of dealing with Oil, and that is from microbes eating the oil as food.

If history is any guide here are some of the worst oil spills. (most are from transporting the oil)

LINK: Largest_oil_spills (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spills#Largest_oil_spills)

We need calm heads, we need leaders that are not covering their own ass by telling us they are looking for "Asses to kick" We right now need to be doing everything in our collective power(yes BP and the US Goverment) to first stop that leak, and get the mess cleaned up.

Then when that is all done you can investigate and charge the people who are responsable. Don't forget the US goverment is not blameless in this.

Oil is here to stay, regardless of how much "New Energy" we talk about producing, there is no replacement for Oil right now. That is a fact.

The world is not going to end and people will clean it up and life will recover it always has as history has shown us. So lets roll up our pants and start cleaning

Soccer:
GO US!!! ;P

[vinz]

I boycott oil altogether.

[Robofish]

Doesn't bother me

[Boa]

It is nearly impossible to boycott BP in general. Do some research, BP produces so many other products besides oil. (Plastic bottles for water, coke, pepsi, all kinds of drinks etc) also aluminum. The list of shit they produce and companies they run is gigantic.

You would have to cut all spending on all of that. A couple hundred or even a few thousand people boycotting ALL BP products wont even make a dent in their profits.

Boycotting a BP gas station is probably a bad idea. Most of them are franchised own. So you would be hurting a fellow citizen and his employees.

[unite01]

boycotting them will only hurt the random gas boy, the responsable (well all the consomation society is responsable) will get out with "minor" charge and year long trial that will cost more money than it will bring :/

[NatashaK]

meh, probably time to buy the stock.

[Senti]

The whole ordeal is sparking a USA v Britain war.



Damn Redcoats! Now where did I hide my musket?

[vallis]

-Nature has a way of dealing with Oil, and that is from microbes eating the oil as food.

OH! I learned about this in life science class. The problem with this is once the oil spill is cleared up what happens to the microbes? Algae come up and omnomnom them. When this algae dies the decomposition process omnomnom's all the oxygen.

This is already a huge problem in the gulf of mexico because of the fertilizers used for agriculture seeping into the gulf creating a huge anoxic zone, where nothing can live because there is no oxygen.

(>^_^)>
man my education actually taught me something for once

[vinz]

It is nearly impossible to boycott BP in general. Do some research, BP produces so many other products besides oil. (Plastic bottles for water, coke, pepsi, all kinds of drinks etc) also aluminum. The list of shit they produce and companies they run is gigantic.

You would have to cut all spending on all of that. A couple hundred or even a few thousand people boycotting ALL BP products wont even make a dent in their profits.

Boycotting a BP gas station is probably a bad idea. Most of them are franchised own. So you would be hurting a fellow citizen and his employees.

either way most ppl think they will be bankrupt soon. i really really hope they do go under. Yes it would be bad for all those losing their jobs, because of some corporate executive douchebag that skimmed on the prevention part, but man would it teach the world a lesson.

[DeciMate]

I always get my gas at Shell

[LianLi]

Because DeciMate is Calm like a Bomb!

[Senti]

get your free Boycott BP sticker made out of oil
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/activities/343?ekicker

stick it on your 3-ton gas guzzler and ride around feeling self-righteous xD

[flcon16]

BP is one of the few stations that dont pull the BS of that $.$$ w/ car wash bullshit. I refuse to go to stations that pull that direct to the consumer schemey BS (if you're going to fuck over the consumer atleast have the courtesy to do it behind the curtain). There are a couple of shell stations around home that don't do it either... around school we just have the BPs... their pumps are always kept in order, never reject my cards for stupid read errors and are never fucked up to the point where they auto shutoff when your tank is still empty.

consumer experience>dark shit behind the scenes IMO

I don't care if someones fucking me in the ass as long they knock me out so i dont know about it... but i do care if someones fucking me in the ass and making it a point for me to know about it...

[flcon16]

Shell and citgo also have those talking gas pumps which are annoying as shit!

have yet to see them at a BP

the shell and citgo stations around me also have a tendency to shutoff the pumps before the tank is full... My gas gauge is completely fucked and does not work 99% of the time (and the 1% of the time it is accurate I don't believe it), so having a station i trust is a big deal to me ^^

[flcon16]

grrr

[DeciMate]

they auto shutoff when your tank is still empty..

Where do you live? You must have some bad luck cause I've never had a pump not fill up my tank at any gas station.