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Just an FYI for those that are interested: http://www.southernstudies.org/2012/04/ ... -gulf.html Apparently all is not well.

April 20, 2012 - Two years after the BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the biggest oil disaster in U.S. history, a Facing South/Institute for Southern Studies report finds Gulf Coast communities are still struggling to cope and rebuild—and they say ensuring a full Gulf recovery must become a national priority.

The study, produced in collaboration with the Bridge the Gulf Project and Gulf Coast Fund, looked at more than 100 recovery indicators, analyzed agency documents and scientific reports, and surveyed local leaders from Mississippi to Texas to see how communities were coping with the spill's aftermath.

The report finds that despite BP's upbeat ad campaigns and the silence of lawmakers, BP's oil disaster hasn't ended and many Gulf Coast communities are still reeling in its aftermath. Fishing families are deep in debt, coastal land has yet to be restored and Gulf residents report widespread illnesses from toxic exposures.

They still haven't gotten a penny from me since.

Me either.

That's AWESOME, Funky and R2! Same here. Since the Valdez I've bought $5.00 from Exxon and only because I was out in BFE and the Exxon station was the only place with gas for miles.

but but but were open for business!!!!!!!!!!!!

signed,

swarmy B#$th spokeswoman for BP who grew up there.........................and sold out her home.


The fish are still f'ed up and they wont get a cent from me until they make it better than it was.

If you own any Sony product (including a Playstation) or a Kindle or products made by Microsoft or use public transportation or fly anywhere ever . . . if you drink domestic beer . . . eat at Applebees or Chili's . . . own anything made by Volkswagen or any of the dozens if not hundreds of companies that Volkswagen owns or operates . . . if you have Verizon as your cable/internet/phone and any of the subsequent equipment that comes with it (ya know . . . that is made of plastic) then odds are you have given BP a dime. Probably alot more.

I'm over the boycott. When it comes to gas, any port in a storm is usually my policy.

drunkpirate66 wrote:If you own any Sony product (including a Playstation) or a Kindle or products made by Microsoft or use public transportation or fly anywhere ever . . . if you drink domestic beer . . . eat at Applebees or Chili's . . . own anything made by Volkswagen or any of the dozens if not hundreds of companies that Volkswagen owns or operates . . . if you have Verizon as your cable/internet/phone and any of the subsequent equipment that comes with it (ya know . . . that is made of plastic) then odds are you have given BP a dime. Probably alot more.

I'll absolve myself by saying I can't avoid what others do with my money, nor am I interested enough to boycott or even research companies who do business with them. I take issue with BP Oil, the subsidiary of the BP group that I see as responsible for the spill and half-a$$ed cleanup. I won't spend my money on something with their name on it. If that means I buy gas at a Gulf gas station (how ironic) without being aware they're the parent company.... well... fool me twice.

drunkpirate66 wrote:If you own any Sony product (including a Playstation) or a Kindle or products made by Microsoft or use public transportation or fly anywhere ever . . . if you drink domestic beer . . . eat at Applebees or Chili's . . . own anything made by Volkswagen or any of the dozens if not hundreds of companies that Volkswagen owns or operates . . . if you have Verizon as your cable/internet/phone and any of the subsequent equipment that comes with it (ya know . . . that is made of plastic) then odds are you have given BP a dime. Probably alot more.

You're sort of right. Less that 2% of a barrel of oil goes toward the chemical feed stocks that makes every plastic product. Another 2% goes to the asphalt used in roads and roofing products. So do the math. Like Funky, I know where I buy gas, oil, propane, etc., and it's not from BP, Mobil or Exxon. My choice.

Now, how about you're Red Sox?

Tequila Revenge wrote:

drunkpirate66 wrote:If you own any Sony product (including a Playstation) or a Kindle or products made by Microsoft or use public transportation or fly anywhere ever . . . if you drink domestic beer . . . eat at Applebees or Chili's . . . own anything made by Volkswagen or any of the dozens if not hundreds of companies that Volkswagen owns or operates . . . if you have Verizon as your cable/internet/phone and any of the subsequent equipment that comes with it (ya know . . . that is made of plastic) then odds are you have given BP a dime. Probably alot more.

You're sort of right. Less that 2% of a barrel of oil goes toward the chemical feed stocks that makes every plastic product. Another 2% goes to the asphalt used in roads and roofing products. So do the math. Like Funky, I know where I buy gas, oil, propane, etc., and it's not from BP, Mobil or Exxon. My choice.

Now, how about you're Red Sox?

It is your choice. It is all your choice - in terms of where you spend your money. Here is a relevant metaphor, I choose not to spend my money on the Red Sox this year because they equate to a gigantic sh*thole spewing oil in the gulf of Mexico this season. I know where my money would be going if I paid to see the Red Sox play. I don't like it. If you don't like BP because of an accidental oil spill that resulted in harming our own shores than atleast know where, what you claim 2%, of BP's revenue went . . . to profit. Since you are so great at Math I will let you break out your abacus and determine what 2% of a 25 billion annual profit (on average for past 5 years) equals.

You think you are doing something by not buying at there stations? Must be a joke. Because I don't claim that not buying a ticket to the Red Sox in 2012 because they are sh*t team is doing anything but freeing up a seat for someone else.

BP has billions in contracts with numerous businesses. They aren't going away. Even Obama and Phillip Morris has financial obligations to them. Fact. Jack.

Sorry.

drunkpirate66 wrote:BP has billions in contracts with numerous businesses. They aren't going away. Even Obama and Phillip Morris has financial obligations to them. Fact. Jack.

Sorry.

Don't be sorry. My S.U.V. doesn't run on popcorn.

drunkpirate66 wrote:

Tequila Revenge wrote:

drunkpirate66 wrote:If you own any Sony product (including a Playstation) or a Kindle or products made by Microsoft or use public transportation or fly anywhere ever . . . if you drink domestic beer . . . eat at Applebees or Chili's . . . own anything made by Volkswagen or any of the dozens if not hundreds of companies that Volkswagen owns or operates . . . if you have Verizon as your cable/internet/phone and any of the subsequent equipment that comes with it (ya know . . . that is made of plastic) then odds are you have given BP a dime. Probably alot more.

You're sort of right. Less that 2% of a barrel of oil goes toward the chemical feed stocks that makes every plastic product. Another 2% goes to the asphalt used in roads and roofing products. So do the math. Like Funky, I know where I buy gas, oil, propane, etc., and it's not from BP, Mobil or Exxon. My choice.

Now, how about you're Red Sox?

It is your choice. It is all your choice - in terms of where you spend your money. Here is a relevant metaphor, I choose not to spend my money on the Red Sox this year because they equate to a gigantic sh*thole spewing oil in the gulf of Mexico this season. I know where my money would be going if I paid to see the Red Sox play. I don't like it. If you don't like BP because of an accidental oil spill that resulted in harming our own shores than atleast know where, what you claim 2%, of BP's revenue went . . . to profit. Since you are so great at Math I will let you break out your abacus and determine what 2% of a 25 billion annual profit (on average for past 5 years) equals.

You think you are doing something by not buying at there stations? Must be a joke. Because I don't claim that not buying a ticket to the Red Sox in 2012 because they are sh*t team is doing anything but freeing up a seat for someone else.

BP has billions in contracts with numerous businesses. They aren't going away. Even Obama and Phillip Morris has financial obligations to them. Fact. Jack.

Sorry.

But the Red Sox "sh!thole" called the Red Sox isn't destroying the ecosystem of the ocean and destroying communities..... OK. Sorry about that... at least the Red Sox are not destroying the ecosystem

drunkpirate66 wrote:

Tequila Revenge wrote:

drunkpirate66 wrote:If you own any Sony product (including a Playstation) or a Kindle or products made by Microsoft or use public transportation or fly anywhere ever . . . if you drink domestic beer . . . eat at Applebees or Chili's . . . own anything made by Volkswagen or any of the dozens if not hundreds of companies that Volkswagen owns or operates . . . if you have Verizon as your cable/internet/phone and any of the subsequent equipment that comes with it (ya know . . . that is made of plastic) then odds are you have given BP a dime. Probably alot more.

You're sort of right. Less that 2% of a barrel of oil goes toward the chemical feed stocks that makes every plastic product. Another 2% goes to the asphalt used in roads and roofing products. So do the math. Like Funky, I know where I buy gas, oil, propane, etc., and it's not from BP, Mobil or Exxon. My choice.

Now, how about you're Red Sox?

It is your choice. It is all your choice - in terms of where you spend your money. Here is a relevant metaphor, I choose not to spend my money on the Red Sox this year because they equate to a gigantic sh*thole spewing oil in the gulf of Mexico this season. I know where my money would be going if I paid to see the Red Sox play. I don't like it. If you don't like BP because of an accidental oil spill that resulted in harming our own shores than atleast know where, what you claim 2%, of BP's revenue went . . . to profit. Since you are so great at Math I will let you break out your abacus and determine what 2% of a 25 billion annual profit (on average for past 5 years) equals.

You think you are doing something by not buying at there stations? Must be a joke. Because I don't claim that not buying a ticket to the Red Sox in 2012 because they are sh*t team is doing anything but freeing up a seat for someone else.

BP has billions in contracts with numerous businesses. They aren't going away. Even Obama and Phillip Morris has financial obligations to them. Fact. Jack.

Sorry.

better let all those bp officials off on the upcoming criminal charges, Im sure that guy destroying text messages was just doing it because he's a great person and made a mistake. Poor oil companies and people from a "political" group who are under attack, damn it better build a million pipelines so the poor oil companies can charge more in the US and send that Canadian oil to CHINA.

Red Sox fans. lol people who know it all and want to fight fans of teams that are the HOME TEAM.

Switching to a more rationale tone . . . the world's economy is something that fascinates me. Ignoring all the politicians and world leaders that make headlines on CNN and Foxnews (or whatever other news source you choose to follow - I am a Bostonian who chooses to support the BBC more than any other) and focusing on world trade, trade routes, taxes, what country does business with who, I find, is a far more accurate model to establish exactly what truly is going on. One could argue that the idea of "countries" (although a nice Patriotic philosophy) exist now to primarily police where the money goes. The world is becoming a very small place where even our supposed enemies (Iran, to name one) are people who we, and much of the world, do business with (despite what the media would leave you to believe with the need to focus on politics and nothing more).

Without oil none of this would happen. Every single United States President from John F. Kennedy (and including President Obama) has said at one time or another, "We need to lessen our dependence on foreign oil" but, still, even in the year 2012 little has changed since World War II in that regard.

Oil may have become an evil word. I don't like that without we can't live without it (and, seriously, we can't -- not as a society anyways. No books. No computers. Mass produced music. Clothes. Alcohol. Tobacco. Medicine. Far less food. Security. Police/Fire/EMT Transportation. Basic infrastructure. Even clean/ purified water - insert joke here - all gone).

If BP broke laws then whoever signed off on it should be fined or otherwise punished. But I don't have an issue with off-shore drilling. Here is some light reading:

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/05/17/ ... water-oil/