How are YOU telling BP to go **** itself?
 

I try to avoid BP stations myself, within reason.

Ive always thought of BP as a 3'rd rate oil company next to giants like Exxon and Shell.

Seeing their epic blunders now shows us why.

Petrochina needs to catch up. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/frown.gif

Ahem. BP was originally Anglo-Iranian.

Double whammy.

BP http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

I go to the station that is most convenient and given the option between two equally convenient gas stations I take the one with the lower price. I feel like this makes more sense than artificially biasing myself especially considering BP stations are franchised, and they might not even get their gas from BP (as far as I know).

I passed a BP solar plant on the way to Pittsburgh a few weeks ago and wondered if it was still helping their reputation.

Flubber:

It has been demonstrated time and time again that when companies admit wrongdoing and try their damnedest to fix things, their stock values, sales, and image rebound in time. Johnson & Johnson with regards to Tylenol is a classic example of this.

Although the Ford Pinto thing didn't seem to hurt Ford much although everyone still remembers that example of corporate jackassery.

It doesn't matter where the hell their oil comes from.

I don't think I've ever seen a BP station.

You guys make me laugh...

ALL Oil companies are planet raping scum - it's in their DNA.

BP is actually doing the US a favour by making people realise that oil is dirty stuff and that their over reliance is a dangerous thing.

It's also about time the US suffered some of the pollution and misery their excessive consumption inflicts on the peoples of other oil producing nations as they fill up on their daily gas fix...

On occasion, I leave Texas. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif
Maybe I've seen them and didn't know it. Is it mainly a northeastern company?

No... I picked some random states. They have BP gas stations in California, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Nebraska so it's safe to say it's not just in the Northeast. There's no coverage map and I'm not going to try all 50 states. Just every state I've tried except for Texas has BP locations.

They're pretty common in the southeast, too. The shithole town of about 60,000 I grew up in has six or seven of them.

It is true that now the Canadian oilsands -- which was supposedly the environmental bad boy, is now being seen as more acceptable. The oilsands naysayers will be back in force . . . the optic of the massive holes in the earth are too good for the envro folks to pass up--- But for now Canadians can point out how less likely a catastropic spill is to occurr in the oilsands

Me?

Heavens no. I represent the associates of the scum people.

In this part of Canada (CAW country) it is quite common to see "Out of a job yet? Keep buying foreign.".

Last I checked Ford, GM and Chrysler were all American. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/dunno.gif

It's always amusing to see how people think oil companies make their money.

All they see is the retail...

At this point, scolding BP is like denouncing Hitler--somewhat superfluous. Depending on how long it takes to clean up this fustercluck they made (and by "cleaning up," I mean to the point that the news can't do any new human-interest stories about Nawlins fishermen going homeless and such; tarry ducks will become old hat in a few weeks), BP may or may not collapse. Either way, I assume that all people in extreme upper management will eventually be released with nice or not-so-nice golden parachutes regardless of their performance or relation to the leak. Boycotting BP will, in all likelihood, only result in layoffs among schmucks somewhere on the bottom, 95% of whom had nothing to do with the disaster. So I say meh.

Not that it matters in my case. I think there's a BP station somewhere around here, but I can't recall where or if I ever frequented it in the past.

No, it's a point of which I'm all too aware - oil companies are, at present, a necessary evil. However the US' consumption of oil is out of all proportion to virtually the entire rest of the world - this is a wake up call...http://www.discussworldissues.com/im...ons/icon14.gif

People can moderate their oil consumption in many ways. I for example choose not to own a car because I don't need one - I don't even need to use public transport to get to work. So whatever my personal consumption is, I bet it's a fraction of yours - and I'll bet yours is a fraction of the average American...