[Pats2010]

Originally Posted by otherbruddaDarrell

I agree with you 100%
At least BP has thousands of Americans working here in USA.

+1

[retiredguy]

I will continue to buy gas from BP. The only company I will not patronize is Hugo Chavez owned.
BP messed up big time, but the Obama regime has put every obstacle all along the way in order to keep this situation in the red. Just ask Bobby Jindal, Gov. of Louisiana. I have watched the situation closely. It's a disgrace what Obama is NOT doing to help.

We wouldn't have to do such dangerous deep water oil drilling if not the the environmentalist ideologues. They are throwing the baby out with the bath water on this issue and so many more. I am suspicious of their real motives.

[BobKat1]

No boycott here.

The bp stations/mini marts are franchised and it is virtually impossible to determine where they buy their gas as well as the source of the gas. They all use area wholesalers/suppliers and the gas is merely sold under the bp name.

[bkcunningham1]

When you are boycotting or riding your bikes on paved roadways, remember oil companies like BP don't just refine crude to make gasoline. When crude oil is refined, its various chemical parts are separated and some become gasoline, some lubricants, some asphalt, and others the raw materials for plastics and rubber and many more things. Petroleum is also the raw material for many chemical products, including pharmaceuticals, solvents, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics.

Here are some examples of what can be obtained from petroleum (crude oil, natural gas, and/or viscous or solid forms):
Fuels - like gasoline, diesel, propane (many people use propane to heat their homes), heating oil
Heavy bottoms - like asphalt, bitumen, tar
Petrochemicals - used as a feedstock for many everyday products:
plastic gadgets, tools, bags, toys
candles
clothing (polyester, nylon)
hand lotions
petroleum jelly
perfume
dishwashing liquids
ink
bubble gums
car tires
ammonia
heart valves
and many more


Crude oil is refined and used to make all these products:


Ethane and other short-chain alkanes which are used as fuel
Diesel
Fuel oils
Petrol
Jet fuel
Kerosene
Liquid petroleum gas (LPG)
Natural gas
Alkenes (olefins) which can be manufactured into plastics or other compounds
Lubricants (produces light machine oils, motor oils, and greases, adding viscosity stabilizers as required).
Wax, used in the packaging of frozen foods, among others.
Sulfur or Sulfuric acid. These are a useful industrial materials. Sulfuric acid is usually prepared as the acid precursor oleum, a byproduct of sulfur removal from fuels.
Bulk tar.
Asphalt
Petroleum coke, used in speciality carbon products or as solid fuel.
Paraffin wax
Aromatic petrochemicals to be used as precursors in other chemical production.

[k2at]

I believe it would be far more effective to just hang the Ceo and all his cronies rather than boycott hard working Americans. BP's citation record is deplorable. 800 plus citations. I wonder how much of a raise the CEO of BP will get this fiscal year? It will probably be more money than I could possibly have thought of making in my lifetime.

[ceejay]

I've only bought gas from BP once and will never buy from them again. They had a teeny weeny sign not visible from the road stating that the advertised price does not apply if using a credit card and the credit price was not posted (which, I think, is against the law, at least it was in New Jersey).
Go ahead...I'll probably get yelled at, but I sneer everytime I drive by a BP...I guess it's "guilt by association".

[k2at]

Ceejay, I had the same thing happen to me in my homestate of New Jersey. Went to gas station and noticed the gas being pumped into my tank was about 8 cents higher than advertised. Ask the attendant and he pointed out to me that the lower price was for cash only. When he first pointed it out to me I did not see it because it was handwritten and so small u needed a magnifying glass to read it. By the way it was not BP That is the last time I ever use that gas station.

[erictarleton]

Originally Posted by redwitch

Pats, the "do-gooders" ..... Put the blame where it belongs -- on the greed of those who wanted the easiest and cheapest way out regardless of the ultimate cost.

That would be us then!

[Rag Bagger]

I put most of the blame on us, our government and it's regulatory arms.

In this and past administrations they lowered the bar allowing drilling with out the proper shut off valves etc. And we the people help drive that by demanding lower gas prices at the pump. Oil companies are going to deliver to us at the lowest possible cost. It's the american way but our government regulators appointed by elected officials are truely at fault. Now watch them blame everybody but themselves. We should be reaming our elected officials for allowing such a mess.

For those that think BP should be put out of business...tink twice your pension may tied to BP, and the thousands of US workers will be badly affected.

[Rob Stevens]

I buy almost all of my gas at BP. I get 5% back on my BP credit card and the price is always the same for cash or credit. Much like with the hiney (H1N1) flu we were told that this was an end of the world disaster. Not even close. Lots of bad to be sure but not the disaster some were hoping for so that they could ban all petroleum products. Besides the oil that BP pumps out of the ground is refined and sold by many different companies so who knows who owned the oil that made the gas that is going in your tank.

[BritParrothead]

I am a Brit, but I NEVER buy BP, because it is too expensive here in the UK.

Now, here are a couple of questions for you all,

1: who owns the highest % of BP? .....
2: And how many gas /oil drills are there in the Gulf of Mexico????




Answer to no 1: is EXXON. They own 60 %
Answer to no 2: over 3 & a half thousand oil rigs in the Gulf!!!!!

[bkcunningham1]

Are you sure about Exxon owning 60 percent of BP? I think it might be JP Morgan Chase that owns the largest percent of BP shares.


https://amadeus.bvdep.com/amadeus/top20/report_2.htm

[Joe&Barbara]

Not!

[dadspet]

Drove by a familiar gas station in Scranton PA the other day but something had changed! It used to be a BP station but they removed anything that associated it with BP. The price of the gas was lower then other stations by a fair amount but there was no one at the station.

I would agree that the worst thing that could happen is for BP to go out of business and not be able to pay their debt. But at the same time you must wonder if you support a company that created the worst natural disaster of all time at the expense of other companies. Is it like supporting the failing insurance companies (AIG) and large investment firms because they are too big to fail?

BTW I don't buy insurance from AIG and keep what little money I have hid in a mattress that the watch dog (Molly) sleeps on. But I do buy the cheapest gas I can find and am thankful that I have an electric golf cart so I don't have to buy any more gas from anyone!

[ejp52]

I boycott dumb threads.