BF2S Forums The Gulf is screwed...again

SonderKommando wrote:

11 Bravo wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

All the BP stations are small bussinesses that make most of their money selling candy and soda. Very little money is made by the station when they sell gas. So you're just hurting the local economy and a small bussiness owner when you boycott their station.

too bad

Do you have any proof of this claim, or are you talking out of your ass? Didn't know you were some sort of business analyst for convenience stores/gas stations.

Tension is mounting between BP and the neighborhood retailers that sell its gasoline.

As more Americans shun BP gasoline as a form of protest over the Gulf oil spill, station owners are insisting BP do more to help them convince motorists that such boycotts mostly hurt independently owned businesses, not the British oil giant.

To win back customers, they'd like the company's help in reducing the price at the pump.

BP owns just a fraction of the more than 11,000 stations across the U.S. that sell its fuel under the BP, Amoco and ARCO banners. Most are owned by local businessmen whose primary connection to the oil company is the logo and a contract to buy gasoline.
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In recent weeks, some station owners from Georgia to Illinois say sales have declined as much as 10% to 40%.

Station owners and BP gas distributors told BP officials last week they need a break on the cost of the gas they buy, and they want help paying for more advertising aimed at motorists, according to John Kleine, executive director of the independent BP Amoco Marketers Association. The station owners, who earn more from sales of soda and snacks than on gasoline, also want more frequent meetings with BP officials.

SonderKommando wrote:

Just seems like such a backwards statistic, dont ya think?

Turquoise wrote:

Guys, guys, guys...   Let's not get excited here.  The ocean naturally has parasites that eat oil, and whatever is left after that is negligible.

The microbe was discovered by a team led by Terry Hazen, of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. The study was reported in the Journal Science.

The good people of the oil industry are just having a bad year.  If there's anyone we should be angry at, it should be people like James Lee and their loony environmentalism.  Let's also not forget all of those opportunistic scientists who are lying about global warming too.

If there's anything we shouldn't do, it would be to get the government more involved.  Now, remember that this still keeps the door open to criticize the government when they don't successfully clean up the oil spill within a week.

And last but not least, never blame the oil companies for these incidents.  Whenever something like this happens, it's the fault of regulators not catching safety problems, even though they shouldn't be regulating the oil industry to begin with.

Turquoise wrote:

Guys, guys, guys...   Let's not get excited here.  The ocean naturally has parasites that eat oil, and whatever is left after that is negligible.

The good people of the oil industry are just having a bad year.  If there's anyone we should be angry at, it should be people like James Lee and their loony environmentalism.  Let's also not forget all of those opportunistic scientists who are lying about global warming too.

If there's anything we shouldn't do, it would be to get the government more involved.  Now, remember that this still keeps the door open to criticize the government when they don't successfully clean up the oil spill within a week.

And last but not least, never blame the oil companies for these incidents.  Whenever something like this happens, it's the fault of regulators not catching safety problems, even though they shouldn't be regulating the oil industry to begin with.