Boycott BP gas stations!!!

[Bud Williams]

Only Bud could blame environmentalists for the worst ecological disaster in American history.

Can't argue with the Facts...



Even Neal Boortz said this on his show today...he must be reading my notes!:bwahaha:

 

[Willie Anglin]

I blame who ever that has forced companies to drill in water that deep, I blame BP for the breakage and spill, I blame BHO and the Feds for impeding the clean up and preventing the spread of the spill, I blame me for buying the fuel to run my vehicles that is derived from the crude they be pumping off the sea floor, I blame Bush because it is the PC thing to do ;-)

 

[Les]

Boycott BP? That Hurts Station Owners -- Not the Company

Across the country, American consumers are voicing their disgust with BP (BP) over the worst oil spill in U.S. history the only way they can -- by not buying gas sold under the oil company's name. Despite their good intentions, however, it turns out that this will do little harm to the U.K. company's bottom line.



In 2008, BP announced it was exiting the retail gasoline business because the margins were lousy. Rivals ExxonMobil (XOM) and ConocoPhillips (COP) did the same thing. Today, BP owns only about 100 of the 900 or so gas stations bearing its name. The rest are operated by independent business owners such as Jay Ricker, the president of Ricker Oil in Anderson, Ind.



Ricker co-founded the company with his wife, Nancy, in 1979. He operates 35 BP stations in Indiana acquired via acquisitions from the U.K. company in 2000 and 2008, so the protests that are hitting BP stations concern him. He's also worried that some consumers are so angry with BP that they're not stopping at his station's convenience stores.



"If they don't buy that gallon of gas from the local BP store, they are hurting the local business more than anybody else," says Ricker, who's also the president of the National Association of Convenience Stores. The group's members are responsible for about 80% of U.S. gasoline sales. "Where we really make our money is in inside the store. Gasoline sales have been down. Yeah, it's tough."

...and for the rest of the story, see link

 

[Kevin Lang]

I bought gas @ a BP station today :grin:

 

[Richard Polk]

Why would you want to stop buying BP gas?



The only people you're hurting are the store owners.



BTW, I filled the Trac up at BP today.

 

[Jimmy Lavoie]

BTW, I filled the Trac up at BP today.

Me too

 

[TrainTrac]

Some thoughts from Neal Boortz on the whole "boycott BP stations" BS. He makes some very good points.

So now we have people showing up around the country calling for a boycott of BP. Now I've been a bit out of touch for the past week, so as soon as I saw a story about a BP boycott I said to myself .... "Self. That idiot race pimp Jesse Jackson has to be behind this." So a quick trip to Google news and the entry of the words "Boycott, BP and Jackson" into the search string confirmed what I already knew. There's that useless footstool leading the movement, with socialist icon Ralph Nader right there with him.



Can someone please tell me on what level of insanity a boycott of BP makes sense? A few things to consider:



1. The Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig did not belong to BP. It belonged to a group named Transocean.

2. At the time of the explosion there were 126 people working on the Transocean rig. Only 8 of them were BP employees.

3. The vast majority of BP stations - the targets of the boycott - are privately owned by small businessmen. The employees of these stations are not employees of BP.

4. What sense does it make to, on one hand, try to starve BP of money while, on the other hand, demanding that they pay the costs of the cleanup? This line of thinking could only make sense to someone like Jesse Jackson.



So what happens when you boycott your local BP station? First, you do little, if anything, to actually cause any financial harm to BP itself. The people you do hurt are the local businessmen who own and operate the stations and your neighbors that they hire. If your idiotic boycotts are successful all you are managing to do is to put people in your own community out of work. Tell you what ... after you spend an afternoon picketing your local BP station, why don't you contact the owner and ask for the name and address of one of the employees he has laid off due to a decline in business. Stick your nifty little "Boycott BP" sign in your trunk and then drive on over to talk to the laid-off employee. Perhaps you can ask him or her how they are going to pay the mortgage until they're back at work. Maybe you can offer to bring over some food every once in a while. You might even offer to cover some medical bills ... being the concerned, liberal American that you are. Or ... I guess you could just tell them that their hard times serve them right since they were working in the evil private corporate world instead of doing what every true, concerned red-blooded American should be doing ... getting a government job.



Where's Al Sharpton? Considering that man's hair perhaps the last thing he would want to do is to boycott oil. If he runs out of grease he may have to look for options.



I'm sorry .. but considering the shape this country is in right now, I've just about had it up to here with idiots, fools and imbeciles like Jesse Jackson and the morons who think that picketing a BP gas station is going to do anything to solve this crisis. It is idiots like these and their inane, childish thought processes that have been, still are, and will continue to drive this great country to destruction.

 

[Mark K 2]

Filled up last week at BP and I buy a couple of 44 ounce thingies of Pepsi there every day. I found it ironic that there was a transmission fluid spill there on Saturday.