I still boycott Exon today. Is there any way to boycott BP?

Kablooie

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Thu May-13-10 12:34 AM
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I still boycott Exon today. Is there any way to boycott BP?

I've seen a few BP gas stations but hardly any.

Where does BP sell their products?

Is it possible to boycott them or is their oil so spread around that it's futile?

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Orrex

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Thu May-13-10 12:35 AM
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1. I for one will no longer use the letters "B" or "P" after completing this subject line.

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Drunken Irishman

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Thu May-13-10 12:40 AM
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2. Walk...

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Toucano

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Thu May-13-10 12:45 AM
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3. Well, your so-called boycott of Exxon has been tremendously successful.

To "boycott" BP, why can't you just do what you do now, but with BP in addition to Exxon?

You don't BOYCOTT Exxon.

You choose not to purchase their products.

That does not a boycott make.

Woe is me, how ignorant the "left" in the United States is.

And I am sorry to be harsh. I don't mean to insult you personally, but there is a fundamental lack of understanding of what a BOYCOTT is, and this probably explains why they have so little success.

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Drunken Irishman

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Thu May-13-10 12:48 AM
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4. I like your Santa icon.

It makes me think of Christmas.

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Kablooie

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Thu May-13-10 01:30 AM
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7. It's odd how Santa can to that to one, isn't it?

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jtuck004

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Thu May-13-10 01:25 AM
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6. On the other hand, it's been HELL on their peanuts and soda pop profit. n.t.

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Kablooie

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Thu May-13-10 01:36 AM
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8. To voluntarily abstain from buying a product is the definition of boycott.

It doesn't have to be done en masse.

I am fully aware it makes no difference to Exxon but it makes a difference to me.

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Toucano

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Thu May-13-10 02:00 AM
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10. No. It isn't.

It has nothing to do with the quantity of participants, although more participants can facilitate compliance from the object of the boycott.

Voluntary abstention is just voluntary abstention.

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Lasher

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Thu May-13-10 12:50 AM
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5. It's probably futile.

Here's a link to a relevant Snopes article: http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/saudigas.asp

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Kablooie

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Thu May-13-10 01:37 AM
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9. That's what I thought.

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Travis_0004

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Thu May-13-10 03:45 AM
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11. No way to boycutt them

BP sends gas to a refinery, then its sent up a pipeline.

They can put gas in the pipeline, and immediatly take gas out, even if it takes a few days for the gas to physically travel that distance. Nobody knows at that point who actually put that gas into the system.

You can boycott the individual store, but there is a decent chance that that is a privately owned store, just tying to get by.

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TexasProgresive

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Thu May-13-10 05:53 AM
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12. Walk or ride a bike-use no gas produced electricity

There is no way to determine where petroleum products originate. You might want to boycott coal so there goes coal fired generators. Are you ready for that kind of a life style change?

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Kablooie

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Thu May-13-10 11:31 AM
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15. When you live 30 miles from work with no public transportation available, it's difficult.

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TexasProgresive

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Thu May-13-10 01:14 PM
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19. I know - I'm 23 miles from work

I used to bike one a week to work and probably did 150 a week on the 2 wheeler for my health but the red neck egits around here got to scary. The final straw was when two good ole boys in a pickup tried to bump me off the road into a creek bottom with the truck door. I was lucky they missed by a centimeter or so. That guy almost fell out of the truck.

I can hear the comments at the funeral- "don't he look in good shape for a dead man of his age."

It's hell to get killed doing something for your health.

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elocs

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Thu May-13-10 05:53 AM
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13. It's easy for me to boycott BP stores since there are none in my town.

My guess is that BP pumped oil get combined with lots of other oil so you never would know for sure if the gas you buy was refined by BP oil.

Usually unless boycotts are very focussed and local they don't do much other than make the boycotter feel good about doing it.

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Junkie Brewster

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Thu May-13-10 06:07 AM
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14. I haven't bought gas at Exxon since the Valdez disaster

I grew up in the coastal northwest, a long way from Alaska, and we still got some detritus from the Valdez. So I haven't bought Exxon gas since then. I also will no longer buy BP gas. And I don't give a shit who thinks it's futile. I am not going to give them my money, no matter how many DUers think I'm just some naive leftist. Fuck them, and fuck Exxon and BP.

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Statistical

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Thu May-13-10 12:15 PM
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17. So where do you buy gasoline? n/t

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Junkie Brewster

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Thu May-13-10 03:18 PM
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20. Costco, mostly n/t

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Statistical

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Thu May-13-10 12:11 PM
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16. BP sells their product in every gas station in the United States.

Edited on Thu May-13-10 12:12 PM by Statistical

All oil from producers flows together and is purchased wholesale by refiners who crack it into various products (including gasoline) which then gets shipped so gas stations.

Want to boycott BP ... use less gasoline and pick paper bags (or reusable ones) over plastic. Buy glass drinking glasses, and metal water containers instead of plastic ones.

Wherever possible reduce oil consumption and chose alternatives.

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TexasObserver

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Thu May-13-10 12:20 PM
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18. Yes. Don't use their consumer outlets for any purpose.

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