actually they make solar panels too. just don't buy any gas. what comes out from under the earth doesn't go to just one company's refineries. what comes out of the refineries doesn't just go to one name of motor fuel distribution. just because the same company is engauged simultaniously in each of those sectors of the industry, doesn't mean that what comes out of a bp pump at a gas station came from a bp refinery or a bp well. likewise, what comes out of any pump at any gas station could just as easily have origenated at a bp well. bp oil, through an arco refiner, from a chevron pump. that's the way it actually works. so just boycotting a bp pump don't make shit. the REAL way to boycott the disregard for public and employee safety of the corporate maffia is to not support the oil industry at all. and to do THAT takes supporting real transportation and energy alternatives to the use of burning anything to provide either.
try years. they've had other disasters. repeatedly. that only oil intrests' control of government prevent criminal prosecutions of the decision makers involved. not just indirect consequences of negligence either, but a number of worker's lives directly at a refinery explosion in texas as well. but again, it happens, and will keep happening, as long as there's such a mind boglingly lucrative demand, created almost 90%, by emotional attachment to the automobile, and a culture that perpetuates it. and if it wasn't bp, it would have been shell, or exxon mobile or standard oil, or one of the others.
None of my family or friends shopped at BP to begin with, cause of the price, like Death said. However, I'm iffy about buying a bong from a local BP, because of the spill. And will never buy gas at any of those places. Thanks for the listning, I checked on Wikipedia, but I don't think all those were included...
Yeah no doubt, besides there is a gas station down the road that always has it 3 cents cheaper then they do. Plus that gas station hired a handicapped women and I'd rather support a place that helps the handicapped. I worked with handicapped people since I was 15 and like seeing them happy.
And not using food grown with chemical fertilizers, and not using plastic, etc. It is borderline impossible to participate in a modern life and not consume any oil.
the entire company is not quite the unified monster people want to make them out to be. they're very safety and environmentally aware in many sectors of their companies and one of the best in most of the regions where they work. but they have a huge amount of catching up to do that wasn't taken care of before that americans didn't really give a crap about at the time. outrage, it appears, is much like hindsight.
idiots just want someone to be pissed off at - that is now BP a few months from now they'll be pissed off at someone or something else
I guess it is out of the realm of possibility that some people genuinely care about the environment? I think any anger towards BP, especially from those on the Gulf Coast, is completely justified.
To boycott BP is locking the barn door after the horse is gone. It was and is a tragic accident and at this point in time the only company that has any expertise in dealing with it, is them. Let them and clean it up and then look at ramifications for a company. They are going to have a massive clean up to do and it appears as if they are willing to do so. It takes money to do so. A boycott is rather like cutting your own throat when you need the funds to clean it up and rebuild lives. They are not the only ones responsible for the environment and more than BP needs to answer for this disaster.
