Have you personally boycotted BP?

no, there aren't any BP stations around here

Yes I have and will continue to do so because they're reckless and irresponsible as hell to have let the spill go as far as it has. Not only that, they can't figure out a way to contain the spill! That's bullsh!t! With technology that we have today and they can't figure out how to put a cap on the spill? Gee, I don't know a thing about this sort of thing but gee gosh darn! I can figure out how to stop the spill! Hubby and I are like the gas that does not have ethanol because we get much better gas mileage than the gas that has the ethanol in it. Now we can't get it thanks to BP's oil spill! So another reason to hate BP and believe me, we hate them big time! I don't care if the business is franchise or not. BP is BP. They're all about the almighty dollar and nothing else. Scum bags is what they all are.

Funny enough, I only started buying BP 3 years ago in Australia. And I did so, because it is the only petrol in Australia without Ethanol. My old Commodore was running like a dog. With BP, it got a new lease on life. It is easy to blame BP for it all. But the fact of the matter is that this sort of things can happen to any petrol company, and none of them would have had the answer. Such accident has never happened before, and no-one had the technologie to deal with it. If you want to pump petrol out of the ocean, you need to allow a margin for error. There will always be accidents in anything we do. All our petrol is carried by ship tankers. You do have to expect the odd accident with those as well. Now, rather than blaming BP for it all The real solution is to keep your car in the garage and stop burning petrol. That way there won't be a need to pump it out of the ocean. At the end of the day, the buck stop with the people and their need for petrol. BP is only supplying us to satisfy our desire for cars.

Although BP stations are not in my area, I think it is foolish and self defeating to boycot BP stations. First it hurts the independent station owners more than BP. Second if we want BP to pay for all the clean up, it is not wise to cut off their source of income they need to pay for the clean up. So in my opinion if BP is in your area and convenient to you and you used to buy there, than don't stop. In other words just keep the same buying practices you had.

It's funny but I was thinking about this same thing yesterday. When I was driving past some BP gas stations there was still people getting gas there. I never went to that station much anyway since I usually find the cheapest gas station around.

I don't personally see the need to. I amm not picky where the fuel is coming from. Of course the oil spill is causing quite a disterbence, but what isn't thease days? Instead of doing something about it, everyone's too busy pointing fingers. People don't even seem to know what caused the explosion that started this mess. Enjoy the decent prices while you can. Oil companies are going to use this to their advantage to try and hike up prices. The media is already making a bigger deal out of this claiming possibly in the near future this incedent will cause prices to reach seven bucks a gallon if certain companies get their way.

No I do not boycott BP. I dont know how people expect them to shell out billions of dollars if nobody is buying their product. Keep in mind how much of their product they are losing in the mean time. Also, boycotting BP gas stations just hurt the little guy that owns it. I purchase my gas in the same place. I already knew from 30 years ago the impact. Now let me ask YOU a question. With the tree huggers wanting drilling to be done off shore where it cant be controlled as well as it can be on shore, this catastrophe happening, do you now think it would be better to drill on shore?

I've never used BP to begin with, so I didn't have to bother to boycott them. Which I would have if I had ever used them.

No, because boycotting would only hurt the smaller businesses. BP overall wouldn't be hurt by the boycott. Besides, the concept of boycotting BP is contradictory. You want them to spend money to clean up the mess, but you want reduce their income, thus giving them less money. I purchase my gas from the cheapest places, so by default BP doesn't get my money.