We NEED some serious BOYCOTT action, people...!

BP *IS* ARCO, Am/Pm, Aral, Castrol & Wild Bean Cafe

Just these brands are the top six ways we can make a dent in BP and make our voices heard. The greed and profits, lax safety guidelines, and blatant disregard for the environment needs to be brought into the DAYLIGHT!

Look, If these guys weren't showing commercials that make you fee all green & fuzzy that you are somehow using a gasoline that is *not* toxic to the planet...then the outrage may be a little bit lessened, not by much. I know we are all sick to death of having these chemicals dumped into our oceans and food supplies...and then being told it is some kind of necessary risk or evil because after all *you* drive a car, don't you?

Just because we have to make choices to use certain items to facilitate our daily lives, does NOT make us responsible for the safety of the workers & environment. THESE companies make far too much to be so irresponsible, and yet we all know that is exactly the point they use...if one of them fails, then the prices will go up and *we* will suffer... well no, I don't choose to buy into that.

I want these companies held accountable - and many of us can do a small part, choosing differently in small ways.

...here's some other items I found on BP in a few searches:

BP Brand/Organizational Structure/Board, etc http://www.bp.com/subsection.do?categoryId=4&contentId=2006741

Oil firms drop group lobbying for Climate Bill http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/56767
("BP said it still supports the USCAP blueprint. which called for a cap-and-trade market, but it also said current legislation would penalize the petroleum industry.")

Financials from Hoover's with links to more info like SEC filings, etc.. http://www.hoovers.com/company/BP_plc/hxxkti-1-1njea5.html

They have a lot of cleanup to do!

the fundy boycott of Disney was the last "huge" one and it went nowhere. BP has more customers than they can serve...just like McDonalds. There can never be enough dedicated protestors to make the tiniest dent in their bottom line.

A few thousand rabid hedge fund traders are shorting BP and HAL stock as we speak.

This ecological disaster of gigantic proportions is going to affect every state with a coast line from La. to NJ or even further north.
That is a huge number of people, like half of the country, who are going to be affected in one way or another.
I think we got enough people to stop buying BP or Armoco gas, don't you?

Here's my pledge: I won't give one cent to any BPwned company.
furthermore, I WILL spread the word via Twitter, etc.

How about you? Even 5 emails can add up if enough of us do it.

BP gets 30% of its oil from OUR Gulf. And sells it for profit.
Who the hell gave them permission to shit all over OUR beaches and kill off our sealife?

Isn't it about time that Bush's money grabbing corporations heard the word NO ?????

It's just the way our planetary economy functions nowadays...it could be changed but the people with the power to change it have no incentive to do that. Nobody pays any attention to emails at least those directed at policy, that's just wasting bandwidth. It's ALMOST to the point that nobody in the established structure even cares about a hand-delivered-return receipt requested First Class letter that doesn't give them a virtual blowjob (and make no mistake, they get a lot of those)

Be honest...how many people do you know personally who would actually stop buying gas for their car if all the local stations were owned by Big Companies? I don't think I know any...

Sure, the gov can kill off corporations...like they did to Bell Tele 40 years ago, I suppose. As long as people work for or invest in them, they will come back just like the hockey masked demon in those
movies...
:shrug:

This isn't just a call for a few people to go to another gas station, this affects millions and should be the beginning of a movement to put the corps that don;t practice good safety OUT OF BUSINESS.

Besides, I personally find it offensive that they sell themselves as a 'greener' company :MAD:

The true assets are still deep in the ground, how would you propose to deny SOMEONE even if it's another organization with the ability to 'recover' it from doing so? Can you convince the owner of every gasoline burning vehicle in the USA (let alone the planet) to stop buying fuel for it?

Pie in the Sky doesn't necessarily mean a high altitude pastry...

Johnson out of the WH.

You gotta start somewhere.

"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice.
it's..conformity"

Rollo May

actually...no, I'm NOT

The dissolution of one company may not stop all of them, but it sure would send a message to the remaining companies that we won't stand for this kind of irresponsible behavior.

Besides, this oil eruption is just another example of why we cannot continue to pursue these energy options. period.
So then the message hits the pocketbook of the board members, as well as the politicians they contribute to...hence Washington gets the message too.

Mobilization for this kind of cause should be a no-brainer.
Instead all I see here is cynicism and disaster porn... I thought we were more progressive than this!

Is the goal to drive them out of business or force them to change their practices?

If the later, which practices - specifically.

Most contemporary boycotts fail because they lack clarity or their demands are such that the object of the boycott can't comply.

I kinda lose track after a while.