List of Products made by BP to Boycott BP

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BP is one of the world’s shortest and most valuable brands. The Helios logo (Helios is the name of the Greek sun god), represents energy in its many forms. The company owns the two letter internet domain bp.com, which the company registered in 1989. BP’s tagline is “beyond petroleum”; according to the company this represents their focus on meeting the growing demand for fossil fuels, manufacturing and delivering more advanced products, and enabling the material transition to a lower carbon future.<80>
ampm
Main article: ampm

ampm is a convenience store chain with branches located in several U.S. states including Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, recently in Illinois, Indiana, Georgia and Florida, and in several countries worldwide such as Japan. In the western US, the stores are usually attached to an ARCO gas station; elsewhere, the stores are attached to BP gas stations. BP Connect stations in the US are transitioning to the ampm brand.
ARCO
Main article: ARCO

ARCO is BP’s retail brand on the US West Coast in the seven Western States of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Utah. BP acquired ARCO (formerly the AtlanticRichfieldCompany) in 2000. ARCO is a popular “cash only” retailer, selling products refined from Alaska North Slope crude at plants at Cherry Point (WA), Los Angeles (CA) and at other contract locations on the West Coast.
BP Travel Centre

BP Travel Centers are large scale destination sites located in Australia which on top of offering the same features of a BP Connect site with fuel and a Wild Bean Cafe, also feature major food-retail tenants such as McDonalds, KFC, Nando’s and recently Krispy Kreme, with a large seating capacity food court. There are also facilities for long-haul truck drivers including lounge, showers and washing machines all in the same building. There are 4 travel centers located in South East Queensland, Australia. Two on the Pacific Highway (Coomera and Stapylton) and two on the Bruce Highway (Caboolture). A fifth travel center was opened in 2007 at Chinderah in northern New South Wales.
BP Connect

BP Connect is BP’s flagship retail brand name with BP Connect Service stations being operated around the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and other parts of the world. BP Connect sites feature the Wild Bean Cafe which offers cafe style coffee made by the staff and a selection of hot food as well as freshly baked muffins and sandwiches. The food offered in Wild Bean Cafe varies from each site. BP Connect sites usually offer table and chair seating and often an Internet kiosk. In the US, the BP Connect concept is gradually being transitioned to the ampm brand and concept. Some BP Connect sites around the UK ran in partnership with Marks & Spencer with the on-site shop being an M&S Simply Food instead of a BP Shop.
BP Express

BP Express was the flagship BP brand prior to the introduction of BP Connect in 2000. There are still some BP Express sites operating around the world but most have been either upgraded to Connect or changed to an alternative brand. BP Express offers a bakery service but doesn’t have the selection of food offered in the Wild Bean Cafe and usually coffee is only available through a self service machine.

In the Netherlands BP is opening unmanned stations with no shops or employees. these stations are called BP Express.<81> Some of these stations used to be ‘ordinary’ BP stations, some are new to the BP network. Apart from these stations BP Express shopping does also exist in the Netherlands.

A BP Petrol prices sign outside a BP Shop garage in the United Kingdom (prices in UK pence per litre).

BP Shop is commonly used on smaller sites mainly independently owned sites. Products vary in each BP Shop but usually a selection of convenience store style food and automotive products.

BP 2go

BP 2go is a franchise brand used for independently operated sites in New Zealand and is currently being rolled out throughout Australia (Although not all BP 2go stores are franchises in Australia). BP 2go sites mainly operate in towns and outer suburbs in New Zealand. BP 2go offers similar bakery food to BP Connect but in a pre-packaged form. Some BP Express sites around New Zealand and Australia that were considered too small to be upgraded to BP Connect were given the option to change to BP 2go others were downgraded to BP Shop. Staff at some BP 2go sites wear a different style of uniform to the rest of the BP branded sites, however in company owned and operated 2go sites in Australia the same uniform is worn across all sites.
Castrol

Castrol is a brand of motor oil and other lubricants which is entirely a BP brand but tends to retain its separate identity.
Air BP and BP Shipping

Air BP is the aviation fuel arm, BP Marine the marine fuels and lubricants arm and BP Shipping is the Shipping arm within the BP group

BP Shipping provides the logistics to move BP’s oil and gas cargoes to market as well as marine assurance on everything that floats in the BP group It manages a large fleet of vessels most of which are held on long term operating leases. BP Shipping’s Chartering Teams based in London, Singapore and Chicago also charter third party vessels on both time charter and voyage charter basis. BP-managed fleet consists of Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs), one North Sea shuttle tanker, medium size crude and product carriers, liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers and coasters. All of these ships are double-hulled.

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Judging by your tone, I will not discuss why. Rather, I will only repeat catch phrases ad naseum. Do not bait me!!!1!

secondly, if some one wants o buy as little BP crap as possible, then more power to them. But do not pull people down for it..

this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8590932

and this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8589191&mesg_id=8590066

I wasn't the only one with the "tone" problem, it seems. Actually, I am in pretty darned good company. I have appreciated all of your good work here ggm. Thanks.

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franchised, with maybe 10% company owned, and BP is in the process of selling those off.

So, if the total amount of gasoline sold remains the same, BP will most likely retain its current market share because of the fungibility of it all, what with BP owned refineries, pipelines and distribution points. Boycotting the BP stations will simply mean BP will sell more of its gas through independants.

The only ones who will lose are the franchise owners, who had nothing whatsoever to do with BP management or the Gulf oil mess, and might even be old Amoco franchisees.

But, hey, rather than investing in alternatives, pressing for more busses and trains, driving less, and even refusing plastic bags for every little thing you buy, why not take the easy way out and get on the bandwagon pretending to beat up BP.

Useless symbolic gestures always feel better than the hard work to actually get things changed.

while we are at it.
After all,it wasn't their fault they worked for a criminal organization.

I heard this story last week on NPR about the regular people who have BP franchise stations, like Jose and Betty Camacho, who are just trying to make a living:

http://m.npr.org/story/127747890



I listened to Betty Camacho as she was in tears because her current receipts were $9000 short and she was forced to ask her brother for a loan rather than using her credit cards as she has done before. I wonder if she has any employees who will be laid off because of the boycott. These are also regular people who are just struggling to make ends meet. But how easy it is to feel self righteous about a symbolic boycott of BP.

Does anyone believe that BP pumped oil goes into its own special and segregated BP tanks, that it does not get mixed in with other oil of the same grade?

Then, does anyone believe that if there really were such separate BP oil that it goes to the refinery to get made into special BP gas?

If I regularly patronized a BP gas station and got to know the people there as I do where I go now I don't know how self righteous I might feel to find out that some of them might lose their jobs because of my symbolic gestures.

Yes, useless symbolic gestures are much easier than hard work because in this case you can just go to the gas station across the street and feel noble about your actions because you are sticking it to BP.

it didn't change my mind, but just reinforced what I already believed. Lotsa big talk about but there are real people out there who are hurt for no reason. Bad enough there are those hurt by the gusher-- no need to add more.

I find it hard to take that even the more militant would stop most days on the way to work for their morning coffee and donut, buying gas when they need it, and suddenly walk in and say "Hey, Jerry, known you for years and it's been nice but we're going to put you out of business because you have the wrong sign out front."

And the cheap excuse "I never stopped there anyway" doesn't cut it. Why put the hurt on someone you don't know for something they had nothing to do with?

(And any minute now someone will chime in about NPR being corporate shills-- just to add more fuel to an out of control fire.)

one that does not really hurt BP but makes the boycotter feel good about their action.