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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 745051" data-attributes="member: 2189">Are you not also hurting the independent BP owner when you pull into an Exxon, Shell, Mobil, QT, etc. station before the gulf accident? Whether the reason makes sense or not is worthy of debate, hurting the independent BP owner should not IMO be among the arguements given to condemn the idea. How many folks here declare we should not use Fed Ex and always use UPS when doing so would hurt the independent Fed Ex Ground contract driver? Where&#039;s the difference? Oh, because you work at UPS? OK, I understand that choice but don&#039;t condemn others for theirs.&nbsp;For the record, I&#039;ve bought gas at BP a few times when I had no choice or the price was right but typically I buy elsewhere. If I had any reason to boycott BP, it would be that the State created <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company" target="_blank">Anglo-Persian Oil then Anglo-Iranian Oil</a> and finally in the post year after the CIA lead Iranian coup at the beheast of british interests, the Brits changed the name to British Petroleum in order to put a face change in order to hide very dirty hands. I don&#039;t boycott BP for this because all the oil majors have dirty hands so there you go. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Now that is completely wrong and a violation of property rights and just basic moral principles.&nbsp;I watched a program on the Exxon Valdez spill on Green Planet channel last night and found a lot of the old footage from the day very interesting. Watching some of the public townhall meeting Exxon had with locals sounded so familar from a 2010&#039; perspective.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 745051, member: 2189"] Are you not also hurting the independent BP owner when you pull into an Exxon, Shell, Mobil, QT, etc. station before the gulf accident? Whether the reason makes sense or not is worthy of debate, hurting the independent BP owner should not IMO be among the arguements given to condemn the idea. How many folks here declare we should not use Fed Ex and always use UPS when doing so would hurt the independent Fed Ex Ground contract driver? Where's the difference? Oh, because you work at UPS? OK, I understand that choice but don't condemn others for theirs. For the record, I've bought gas at BP a few times when I had no choice or the price was right but typically I buy elsewhere. If I had any reason to boycott BP, it would be that the State created [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company"][COLOR=red]Anglo-Persian Oil then Anglo-Iranian Oil[/COLOR][/URL] and finally in the post year after the CIA lead Iranian coup at the beheast of british interests, the Brits changed the name to British Petroleum in order to put a face change in order to hide very dirty hands. I don't boycott BP for this because all the oil majors have dirty hands so there you go. Now that is completely wrong and a violation of property rights and just basic moral principles. I watched a program on the Exxon Valdez spill on Green Planet channel last night and found a lot of the old footage from the day very interesting. Watching some of the public townhall meeting Exxon had with locals sounded so familar from a 2010' perspective. [/QUOTE]

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