This is disgusting. Why haven't they stopped the oil flow yet?

Everyday, to and from work, I pass 3 BP gas stations. I shake my head at the people who continue to patronage and support such a company. I realize that they say most BP gas stations are independently owned, but that isn't my fault. I refuse to line the pockets of the higher ups in the company by giving my business to them. I will never fill up at a BP station again, even once this tragic disaster is contained. It will take years beyond my lifetime for the gulf to fully recover from this event, if that is even possible.

But wait! GOD gave us this planet and it is our domain to be used as we see fit - the animals, plants, and resources are gifts to man... and we are made in his image, thus we ARE him, so anything we do is HOLY and justified, hence we really can't screw up, for our actions are blessed from upon high,....unless you happen to be muslim, then you are stupid, and sitteth upon our OIL. We cannot harm our god-bequeathed domain, for it is blasphemy to think otherwise. We are simply following HIS plan. For to believe that we are petty, arrogant, fucktards destroying the planet like a giant wrecking ball is to believe that HE is a giant fucktard as well, and this is dimming to GOD's pleasing light, shining forthwtih from his loins. Alas, for this planet is OURS and we must be fruitful, multiply, dominate all species, and spread the truth..., and enormous shit-piles, among the phillistines, for they are sinners. alackaday, alas, hallelujah, behold!

My God....

To be honest, I can't make anything of the first 2:30 of the video. No scale, no landmarks - I have no idea what I'm looking at. First part looks like a bloody desert to me, and after that, it's a bunch of tree roots in high zoom. Maybe I'm too liquored up right now ...

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>> ^Mcboinkens:

>> ^ToastyBuffoon:
Everyday, to and from work, I pass 3 BP gas stations. I shake my head at the people who continue to patronage and support such a company. I realize that they say most BP gas stations are independently owned, but that isn't my fault. I refuse to line the pockets of the higher ups in the company by giving my business to them. I will never fill up at a BP station again, even once this tragic disaster is contained. It will take years beyond my lifetime for the gulf to fully recover from this event, if that is even possible.


That's not ignorant at all. Just kidding, it is.
All you are doing is screwing over families that really have nothing to do with BP at all, they just have a store under its name. That's no worse than the people down on the gulf who lost their jobs due to another kind of ignorance. It is even worse because you acknowledge that you know they are independently operated. Those gas stations hardly make enough to get by normally, let alone with boycotts.
Furthermore, BP makes most of its money refining and selling oil to ALL gas stations, since they are, as I said before, independently owned. A mistake a lot of people make is thinking that BP stations have BP gas, Shell has Shell gas, Conoco has Conoco, etc. In reality, they just buy whatever gas is easiest and cheapest to obtain and sell it under the companies logo at the station.


Ethical protest strategy is actually really complex and hard. Which is great for the corporations, cause it means it's hard to get people together in a strategy.

>> ^Mcboinkens:

>> ^ToastyBuffoon:
Everyday, to and from work, I pass 3 BP gas stations. I shake my head at the people who continue to patronage and support such a company. I realize that they say most BP gas stations are independently owned, but that isn't my fault. I refuse to line the pockets of the higher ups in the company by giving my business to them. I will never fill up at a BP station again, even once this tragic disaster is contained. It will take years beyond my lifetime for the gulf to fully recover from this event, if that is even possible.


A mistake a lot of people make is thinking that BP stations have BP gas, Shell has Shell gas, Conoco has Conoco, etc. In reality, they just buy whatever gas is easiest and cheapest to obtain and sell it under the companies logo at the station.


Actually I don't think that's correct. I know a trucker who hauls gas to gas stations for a living and he said that certain gas goes to certain stations due to the make up of it. Cheveron gas has Techron additive in it for instance and would not be sold at a Texaco gas station because they use their own additives, etc. He could be wrong, I don't know that's just what he was telling me.

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>> ^Mcboinkens:

>> ^Duckman33:
>> ^Mcboinkens:
>> ^ToastyBuffoon:
Everyday, to and from work, I pass 3 BP gas stations. I shake my head at the people who continue to patronage and support such a company. I realize that they say most BP gas stations are independently owned, but that isn't my fault. I refuse to line the pockets of the higher ups in the company by giving my business to them. I will never fill up at a BP station again, even once this tragic disaster is contained. It will take years beyond my lifetime for the gulf to fully recover from this event, if that is even possible.

A mistake a lot of people make is thinking that BP stations have BP gas, Shell has Shell gas, Conoco has Conoco, etc. In reality, they just buy whatever gas is easiest and cheapest to obtain and sell it under the companies logo at the station.

Actually I don't think that's correct. I know a trucker who hauls gas to gas stations for a living and he said that certain gas goes to certain stations due to the make up of it. Cheveron gas has Techron additive in it for instance and would not be sold at a Texaco gas station because they use their own additives, etc. He could be wrong, I don't know that's just what he was telling me.


Looked it up, looks like your friend and I are both right to some extent. Seems like it depends on the location of the station, which makes sense.

Source: http://www.cyclelicio.us/2010/does-bp-gas-really-come-from-bp/


Nice! Thanks for the info. Now I don't feel so bad when I buy gas from AM/PM thinking it's cheaply made gas.

>> ^Mcboinkens:

Oh, even better. This video isn't even of the Gulf oil spill. It's from a movie called "Petropolis" that was released in 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdFT3bZtnok&feature=channel

Look familiar? Overlap starts at 0:27. December 2009 upload date. Get this fake video out of here.


Wish I could take my vote back now...