If you thinking of boycotting your local BP Gas Station - DON'T!! Wrong person being hurt! [View All]

I know we're all pissed at BP, but I read this intesting tidbit about the so-called "Boycott BP Gas Stations" and learned alot from it. If you think you are hurting BP the corporation by boycotting BP the local gas station, the only person you are hurting are the ownres of that gas station. Why would we want to boycott small business owners.

Please read this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/30/gulf-oil-spill-myths-debu_n_629616.html#s107504

Boycotting BP Gas Stations Boycotts BP

Myth. Lady Gaga is among the leading proponents of a BP boycott, as musicians on summer tours shun the stations, along with Public Citizen and tens of thousands of Facebook fans of a boycott. But while the brand may be offensive and permanently tainted, BP disinvested in its U.S. gasoline chain in 2007, leaving independent owners invested most heavily in local stations. They pay BP a licensing fee and may (or may not) be more likely to carry BP gasoline, but the economics of wholesale oil and gas is such that BP, Britain's largest company, is unlikely to suffer much from a retail gas boycott, but BP the local station owner could. Anyway, what's the better alternative? And unfortunately, oil ends up in a lot of products other than gasoline, under a lot of different brands, making it difficult to avoid one company's product.

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So please do NOT hurt small business owners with a boycott. I mean seriously what are my options out there - Exxon? Shell? Valero?