Boycott BP - It's working

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When we started our Boycott BP campaign, we knew we had to get their attention in a language BP understands - profits. Now, we know it's working:

A chain of Convenience Stores in Philipsburg, Pa decided to debrand three of its BP-branded stations:

"We are debranding BP. We will no longer be associated with BP by the end of the month. We are doing this because of the backlash and bad publicity from the handling of BP's catastrophe," Sean Lay, vice president of operations, said in the report. "We don't want to be associated with them anymore. We've had enough."

Our campaign has been covered by everyone from the New York Times to industry trade newspapers. You can be sure that BP is paying attention. Now, let's turn up the heat.

In spite of these early effects of the boycott, BP corporate headquarters is still playing games with the numbers and continues to escape accountability. Just this morning, the government updated estimates of the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf to be much higher than BP originally stated.

And yet, BP continues to deny the extent of the problem. A report from NPR asks: "BP officials insisted this week they have found no large plumes of oil concentrated underwater, although it begs the question: if the oil isn't concentrated in the water, where is it?"

Instead of launching a multi-million dollar public relations offensive on T.V. to shrug off the blame and beg for customers, BP must take full responsibility for the cleanup of this unprecedented disaster. They need to know we're not buying their spin or their gas until they get the job done and the disaster is completely cleaned up.

Pledge to buy your gas from Anyone But BP right now

BP had the resources to drill and create this horrible disaster, now they have the responsibility to clean it up. But, they won't do it on their own. They need to know we will make them pay one way or another.

Thanks for everything you do.

-Levana

Levana Layedecker, Communications Director
Democracy for America

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Now if people were to boycott oil companies in general and make decisive lifestyle changes in recognition of the fact that BP is only part of the problem, and that the oil industry as a whole is much larger, and that other oil companies are just as likely to have accidents in the future as BP was in the recent past, thanks to America's insatiable demand for more and more oil, that would make some degree of sense. As it is any boycott of BP specifically does nothing to change the underlying factors that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster; American dependence on and consumption of oil leads the government to grant preferential drilling rights and relaxed oversight to oil companies exploring and drilling for oil in waters within the US economic exclusion zone, because the political cost of not maintaining supply sufficient to both meet demand and to allow American consumers to pay the distortedly low prices they've come to expect as some sort of god-given right makes it politically impossible not to.

who knows what other stations are selling BP but under a different name......

BP, unlike some other oil companies, is a criminal outfit.
Or, if you prefer that they are all criminal, then BP is KING.

There are over 3,000 wells in the Gulf.
Been there for years.

Now we have a huge problem.
BP is running this show and you just want to ignore that other oil companies have been doing ok and let the renegade BP to go free?

BP is solely to blame for this and they deserve to not only be boycotted but dissolved so BP can never do anything like this again.

Around here, they're always more expensive than any other chain. Fuck that.

Also, there's a huge BP refinery in NW Indiana, close to where I live. It's not like they're shipping the fuel across the nation.

So which super-sized multi-national oil and gas company should we be buying our gas from?

that I haven't any horrific news about...so I'm buying there.

If I had an electric car....well go see the movie, 'Who Killed the Electric Car' and you'll see why I don't have one. But I do have one that gets over 30 mpg. I've always had small cars that got good mileage. I loved my little 1983 Nissan Sentra. Drove it over 100,000 miles.

:rofl:

That is what is wrong with America. Don't change your lifestyle, don't get a more efficient vehicle, don't check with a buddy at work to see if you can carpool (even 2 days a week). Nope just buy your poison from a different brand and everything will be better.



Well depends on what you consider working.

Feel good do nothing boycott? Yup it is working.
Crushing profit margins of small business owners? Yup it is working.
Reducing the amount of oil BP sells? Nope, BP will simply sell oil to unbranded stations (raceway, costco, sams club, 7-11, etc)

What if the US military boycotts BP?

Say it buys only from CITGO? Bwhahahaha

When US ships and aircraft hit the coast wanting a fill-up! Oh, yeah- clean the windshield,check the oil,and the tire pressure.

Maybe this whole ant-Hugo thing is BP designed capitalism with the end purpose of keeping CITGO from selling the US military its oil supplies?

And is it any wonder why the Brits sucked up to bush as he went to war in the Middle East?

Just how did the Queen of such a teeny, tiny country manage to have under its wing the 4th largest company in the world?

:rofl: ;)

the desired effect will not benefit anybody - whether it succeeds or not.

You are wrong. Boycotting BP is a great message, at the very least.

I guess I can feel self righteous about supposedly hurting BP without having to make any sacrifice whatsoever.