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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 07:35 PM
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Why on earth would we boycott BP?
This company owes us a fortune. Do you really want to drive them out of business when they owe us money?


I'm as mad at them as anyone. I have been advocating here, and elsewhere, for the nationalization of BP.

My fear is that by the time we do that, the company will be worthless and we'll get NO COMPANSATION.

Is that what you want?
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 07:37 PM
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1. They are going to wease on this anyway...
May as well let them wease on what's in their pockets now, instead of filling them up more.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 07:38 PM
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2. Boycotting BP won't affect their bottom line much. They supply so much petroleum
to so many buyers, it would be impossible to actually tap into them all.
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 07:41 PM
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4. so what
fuck them anyway. I am boycotting them right along with Exxon. :mad:

FUCK YOU BRITISH PETROLEUM!!

:dem:
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 07:44 PM
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6. My post was in response to the OP who was advocating NOT boycotting them.
For my own soul, I'm boycotting them, too -- but I don't think the OP's reasoning was sound, that's all I was trying to say.
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 07:58 PM
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10. :)
fine, thank you for helping! :)

:kick:
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 07:41 PM
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3. Because we get such a warm fuzzy feeling from filling our tanks with Exxon gas
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Walk away Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 07:42 PM
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5. Most BP gas stations aren't owned by BP. When you boycott BP you are only hurting....
the small businesspeople who own them. BP oil is sold to refineries that sell to many brands. When you go across the street from a BP station to another brand you may actually be supporting BP.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 07:49 PM
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7. Thank you for your sanity.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 07:50 PM
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8. They have plenty of assets worldwide and there's always halliburton and Transocean too
altogether they will provide what they owe the people of the gulf states
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Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 07:52 PM
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9. Sorry, but I refuse to refuel at a BP station until they've righted their innumerable wrongs.
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jp11 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 08:05 PM
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11. I disagree that boycotting them would have any real impact on their ability to pay or make money in
the interim. I'd *think* that if they try to file for bankruptcy or otherwise 'protect' themselves from paying out our government would take steps to make sure we get what is required for the damages done and ongoing, but I could easily be wrong as our government has proven more than once to be incompetent and unable to do the 'right thing'. In the meanwhile I still have doubts a super duper capitalist country like us would seize a corporation in this day and age of corporate people.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 08:13 PM
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12. I'd much rather see a personal moral victory than a financial one
Edited on Thu Jun-10-10 08:14 PM by LanternWaste
I'd much rather see a personal moral victory than a financial one.


I maintain that a successful statement of positive conviction, even if only by one person is yet worth more than a hundred multi-nationals.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 08:53 PM
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14. Well I'm glad you feel good about yourself....
...for punishing your innocent neighbors. As for the "another clerk will be hired by the competitor" argument, that's ignoring the problems created for the ones who lose their jobs, whose only sin was to accept the only job they could find. What about them?

Meanwhile, BP still sells every gallon of gas they produce, some of it to you.
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bedazzled Donating Member (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 08:45 PM
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13. heard a radio ad today - saying that BP stations are small businesses
that their owners are our friends and they employ
many in the community.

sounds like they're hurting!

i'm still not going to buy their gas, though.
sorry.
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Walk away Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 05:13 PM
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16. You do not understand how the oil industry works. I am tired of explaining it to you all....
but I suggest you do a little research before you continue to advocate destroying the lives of people who have nothing to do with the spill. You are likely buying BP gas where ever you buy gas. Boycotting BP stations does not effect BP.

Your callous attitude and insistence on continuing ignorance is pretty amazing though. "sounds like they're hurting! I'm still not going to buy their gas, though.
sorry."
I weird you are so proud of it.
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bedazzled Donating Member (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 11:10 PM
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17. yow! nasty much?
it happens to be my money, and if i choose not to spend it
at a gas station that has a huge "bp" logo in front of it,
i'd say that's my choice.

sounds like you own a gas station. cutting into your profits
huh?
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FBI_Un_Sub Donating Member (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-10-10 09:29 PM
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15. Big mistake
was not going with the rainbow of of "alternatives" and "renewables" under Carter. Instead, we let "Good Morning In America" Ronnie Reagan -- another "Big Oil" shill --- shut them down.
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