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Not to throw water on the thread, but just read in the Plain Dealer, that the boycott really isnt hurting BP.
It's killing the guys who own the stations...guess BP really doesnt own them, go figure!
Or said another way .... "Let he who walks with a clean carbon footprint cast the first tar ball."
"No" .... I am not in any way letting BP off the hook for their mistakes, deceptions and poor management of all of this.
But I am willing to acknowledge that I can't completely escape responsibility myself.
I read a good article a few weeks back in the New York Times, and I'll paraphrase ....
Oil is too complicated for simple solutions. Boycotts have a moral problem, though.
All oil comes from someone’s backyard, and when we don’t reduce the amount of
oil we consume, and refuse to drill at home, we end up getting people to drill for us in
Kazakhstan, Angola and Nigeria — places without America’s strong environmental
safeguards or the resources to enforce them.
dancastro wrote:SP - I'm in no way saying BP isnt responsible, but the boycott really isnt hurting BP, just your next door neighbor that owns the local station
Then we are in agreement about the futility of boycotts.
dancastro wrote:SP - I'm in no way saying BP isnt responsible, but the boycott really isnt hurting BP, just your next door neighbor that owns the local station
I realize that you are hurting the owners of the station more than BP by boycotting, but I always had another way of looking at it as well. If it actually does hurt BP in any way, that actually might hurt everybody affected by this disaster even more. BP is being held accountable for the millions (or billions) of dollars lost by area business people and has to pay back for the losses and numerous lawsuits that will come their way. If we boycott them, that would make it even harder to repay all these people. On the other hand, if we did just the opposite, maybe these people might actually get their monies that are due to them. After all the dust has settle, maybe then we try to put them out of business. Just a different way to look at it.
Trust me, BP does not have to worry about where that money is going to come from..... They didn't start drilling just yesterday, and this wasn't their only well.
The stockholders might not get as big a dividend as they expected, but to put it simply, right about now I guess it sucks to be them. -"BB"-
"I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead." "Some of it's magic, and some of it's tragic, but I've had a good life all the way."
