How are YOU telling BP to go **** itself?

[Solomwi]

No... I picked some random states. They have BP gas stations in California, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Nebraska so it's safe to say it's not just in the Northeast. There's no coverage map and I'm not going to try all 50 states. Just every state I've tried except for Texas has BP locations.

They're pretty common in the southeast, too. The ****hole town of about 60,000 I grew up in has six or seven of them.

[Wezil]

That is pure BS. The only reason that those companies drills for oil is because you and I demands their products Actually, the real scums of the world are people like you - i.e. the welsh

Today I saw a moron driving an SUV with an anti-Alberta Oil Sands bumper sticker. [/aside]

[BlackCat]

Isn't you one of the scum people ???

[Flubber]

You guys make me laugh...

ALL Oil companies are planet raping scum - it's in their DNA.

BP is actually doing the US a favour by making people realise that oil is dirty stuff and that their over reliance is a dangerous thing.

It's also about time the US suffered some of the pollution and misery their excessive consumption inflicts on the peoples of other oil producing nations as they fill up on their daily gas fix...

It is true that now the Canadian oilsands -- which was supposedly the environmental bad boy, is now being seen as more acceptable. The oilsands naysayers will be back in force . . . the optic of the massive holes in the earth are too good for the envro folks to pass up--- But for now Canadians can point out how less likely a catastropic spill is to occurr in the oilsands

[Flubber]

Today I saw a moron driving an SUV with an anti-Alberta Oil Sands bumper sticker. [/aside]

Love it--- Ranks there with flying dozens of private jets to the enviro conferences

[Flubber]

Isn't you one of the scum people ???

I am. Sticks stones etc etc. If it matters my particular employer is largely focused on natural gas as oil makes up well less than half of our energy production. AS someone that lives in a place where it is often well below freezing, we need energy for heat and make no apologies for working for a company that provides it

[Wezil]

Isn't you one of the scum people ???

Me?

Heavens no. I represent the associates of the scum people.

[MOBIUS]

That is pure BS. The only reason that those companies drills for oil is because you and I demands their products Actually, the real scums of the world are people like you - i.e. the welsh

The point is that if you're going to blame one oil company, you have to blame them all...

I think BP have done all that can be reasonably expected of them and don't really deserve the blame that is being levelled at them.

Basically they carried out their legal obligations as far as the US was concerned and it was the company they outsourced to that was responsible for dropping the ball. Just cos Obama is trying to look like he's in control and whining like a stuck pig about looking for asses to kick...

[Wezil]

Love it--- Ranks there with flying dozens of private jets to the enviro conferences

In this part of Canada (CAW country) it is quite common to see "Out of a job yet? Keep buying foreign.".

Last I checked Ford, GM and Chrysler were all American.

[Dinner]

On a different note apparently a second rig is leaking in the gulf and has been leaking since last April. It has apparently made a 10 mile long oil slick on the surface.

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/06/another_gulf_oil_spill_well_ne.html

[Asher]

BP stations don't make BP money in any event.

Like the pic.

It's always amusing to see how people think oil companies make their money.

All they see is the retail...

[BlackCat]

@Flubber & Wezil : sorry if you guys was offended - I know that at least one of you are in the oil business - wich I don't see as a bad thing

[BlackCat]

The point is that if you're going to blame one oil company, you have to blame them all...

Well, you seem to miss the point that it's actually you that are the real culprit here - it's your demand of oil that are the reason for this disaster.

[Elok]

At this point, scolding BP is like denouncing Hitler--somewhat superfluous. Depending on how long it takes to clean up this fustercluck they made (and by "cleaning up," I mean to the point that the news can't do any new human-interest stories about Nawlins fishermen going homeless and such; tarry ducks will become old hat in a few weeks), BP may or may not collapse. Either way, I assume that all people in extreme upper management will eventually be released with nice or not-so-nice golden parachutes regardless of their performance or relation to the leak. Boycotting BP will, in all likelihood, only result in layoffs among schmucks somewhere on the bottom, 95% of whom had nothing to do with the disaster. So I say meh.

Not that it matters in my case. I think there's a BP station somewhere around here, but I can't recall where or if I ever frequented it in the past.

[Wezil]

@Flubber & Wezil : sorry if you guys was offended - I know that at least one of you are in the oil business - wich I don't see as a bad thing ;

I'm not at all offended.

We are both connected to the industry but he is directly connected (and much dirtier than me).

He does oil, I'm involved with trucking.