anyone boycotting BP gas over the spill?
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
United States
June 3, 2010 9:42am CST
i know i am! but it amazes me when i drive buy and its business as usual!! i know i care more because i was raise on the gulf but i would think others would care enough to not buy their gas but i guess not..
am i the only one that is refusing to buy their gas? does this oil spill give oil to other gas stations? if so then who so i can add them on my list lol
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@beaniefanatic13 (5076)
• Grand Junction, Colorado
4 Jun 10
You are absolutely correct. Holding BP financially responsible is the way to let them know, they will feel that most definitely. Not punishing ordinary citizens trying to make ends meet.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
11 Jun 10
i would still think it would some what affect bp is you boycott but even if it doesnt i will at least not feel like im contributing to the oil spill and well i think we will die of old age before they pay up for all the damage
@ktroth (378)
• United States
3 Jun 10
You're not the only one! There are many BP stations in my area and the closest one to my house is a BP. I go out of my way not to go there. I didn't care much for them before as their prices are always a little higher than everyone else's. But sometimes it was more convenient to go there. Now I just deal with the inconvenience and go someplace else. My 8 year old daughter would have a fit if I went to BP. She's my little environmentalist!
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@beaniefanatic13 (5076)
• Grand Junction, Colorado
4 Jun 10
Unfortunately gas stations are mostly franchises owned by families and the families and people that live in the community are the ones that work in them. Causing them financial hardship when they had nothing to do with the accident, is not the way to hurt BP. The only thing it does is hurt struggling Americans. We need to hold BP corporate financially responsible for the clean up, the will feel that. As always just my 2 cents worth!!!
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
11 Jun 10
how can we hold bp accountable is our prez is like napping on it? its like on the news a different story on if he is doing anything to get them to pay or if he is cutting a deal to have them pay half or what so who knows.. i know they had an agreement of some sort that they wouldnt be liable for x amount of dollars but that was a WAY low amount..
bp here had the nicest gas stations.. i always went to shell but sometimes i would go to bp because they would have sales on an energy drink i liked and they were in front of a store i go to.. they arent the highest here amazingly.. depending on what part of town them and shell can be the lowest
@skysuccess (8858)
• Singapore
5 Jun 10
moonlitmagikchild,
I do not feel that it is right to boycott BP as that will only hurt the innocent franchisee.
I feel that your country is not doing enough to make BP clean up the spill and your President is just sitting at some television show issuing some harsh words. If the company is wrong, then the law should pursue and stop them.
It is just disgusting to learn that the company is going to pay out billions of dollars to shareholders instead of holding it back to clean the spill. And all the country could do is wait for the 1st of July for the company to fork out the 1st installment for the cleaning works.
I just cannot understand how things can go so wayward here.
Ref:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1283959/Furious-Barack-Obama-BP-felt-anger-Gulf-Mexico-oil-disaster.html
@skysuccess (8858)
• Singapore
11 Jun 10
moonlitmagikchild,
This incident just clearly indicate the importance of having regulatory bodies to keep such potential industries in check.
Total free running is just an ideology which in the turn will be abused to the core and comes with severe consequences. Now, we are talking about extensive damages to the environment and wildlife - I just hate to imagine or foresee the damages it might do to mankind, which by then will be too late for even a breath of regret.
@skysuccess (8858)
• Singapore
11 Jun 10
P.S.
Sorry for the typing error on Para 1 where it should be:
"....the importance of having regulatory bodies to keep such potentially dangerous industries in check."
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
11 Jun 10
well the fact where bp is to blame is they had warning signs and were not doing proper maintenance and keeping it to where it pumped at a certain level to avoid them being checked all the time.. i do agree our prez should be doing something but eh that goes with out saying i think..
@mentalward (14691)
• United States
3 Jun 10
Quite honestly, there aren't any BP stations near our house but, if there were, I wouldn't buy from them.
I can't believe that they haven't been able to stop, or at least slow down, the leak by this time. It's totally insane!
I HOPE they are not only forced to take full financial responsibility for the cleanup once the leak is repaired but also pay restitution to everyone who has lost money because of the leak like fishermen, resort beach owners, etc.
I was talking with my husband about this one night and was wondering why they didn't try to put something over the leak to bring the oil up to a waiting tanker on the surface then, the very next morning, I heard they were going to try exactly that. Of course, they had trouble with that since the thing they were using to cut a hole in the pipe got stuck in the pipe. Figures, huh? I don't think they're planning anything out well enough before putting it into action.
I hope this nightmare ends soon! I'm nowhere near the Gulf but I will not buy gas from BP now just as I have boycotted Exxon since the spill in Alaska so many years ago. When they refused to pay for the entire cleanup efforts, that's when I said bye-bye to Exxon.
@beaniefanatic13 (5076)
• Grand Junction, Colorado
4 Jun 10
hello mentalward, You state that you hope that BP has to make financial restitution, yet you mention that if there were BP's in your area you would boycott them, I ask why? I understand the impact that this has had on the Gulf and all the businesses impacted, but gas stations are in part owned by private people that have nothing to do with the accident in the Gulf. They can't just change the name of the gas station, these are people that in economic hard times have now just gotten a new blow through no fault of their own, simply because of the brand of gasoline they went with. If your talking about a boycott on corporate stores then that is a way to get a message across, but again, in these horrible economic times shutting down a large company and putting many hundreds of thousands of people out of work, due to an accident, really doesn't seem fair to me. I believe that they need to be responsible with the cleanup and restitution to businesses affected by this. As always just my 2 cents worth!!!
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@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
3 Jun 10
well i didnt know that there are bp stations in your part of the world. But in this country havent seen one yet. But i know they export some oil here but you can't really boycott them if they are not direct sellers of fuel.
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
11 Jun 10
there are bp stations EVERYWHERE in this town.. it and shell and like one other are the major ones here
