Robbien
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Tue Jun-29-10 01:59 PM
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| 4. And if you don't believe that |
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there are those hundreds and hundreds of planted propaganda articles in every newspaper all shouting "boycotts only hurt the little guy".
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| -BP Offers $70 Million in Cash to Gas Station Owners |
Robbien |
Jun-29-10 01:43 PM |
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Very telling. |
dixiegrrrrl |
Jun-29-10 01:51 PM |
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BINGO! I agree. If there is nothing left in the Gulf to protect, they can drill to their heart's |
BrklynLiberal |
Jun-29-10 02:09 PM |
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Absofreakinglutely |
Lorien |
Jun-29-10 08:37 PM |
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impossible. boycotts don't work, & bp gas stations have nothing to do with bp. |
Hannah Bell |
Jun-29-10 01:53 PM |
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And if you don't believe that |
Robbien |
Jun-29-10 01:59 PM |
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huh? |
nyc 4 Biden |
Jun-29-10 02:00 PM |
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:) |
Edweird |
Jun-29-10 02:39 PM |
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oh. |
nyc 4 Biden |
Jun-29-10 02:52 PM |
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This is true. |
Edweird |
Jun-29-10 03:05 PM |
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They don't work when enough people aren't mad enough to make them work. |
caseymoz |
Jun-29-10 02:51 PM |
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Daughter and I were out running errands yesterday |
HockeyMom |
Jun-29-10 01:56 PM |
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That BP station owner then turned around and sent BP a check |
Robbien |
Jun-29-10 02:00 PM |
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Self delete |
LanternWaste |
Jun-29-10 02:15 PM |
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Maybe Nathans too |
HockeyMom |
Jun-29-10 02:51 PM |
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So you gave the gas money to Mr. Chavez? |
pipoman |
Jun-29-10 03:19 PM |
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Even the gas probably isn't BP gasoline... |
PacerLJ35 |
Jun-29-10 07:24 PM |
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Someone will alert on you for using the "C" word ... |
Nihil |
Jun-30-10 06:32 AM |
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But.. but it's 'fungible' and a bunch of DU 'experts' went to a lot of trouble |
Edweird |
Jun-29-10 02:03 PM |
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Now You Did It! |
HCE SuiGeneris |
Jun-29-10 05:18 PM |
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LOL. |
Edweird |
Jun-29-10 08:33 PM |
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! |
HCE SuiGeneris |
Jun-29-10 09:27 PM |
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And so many on DU claimed such an emotional reaction |
Bluenorthwest |
Jun-29-10 02:06 PM |
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"waifes living by peddling Chiklets to tourists" |
Kali |
Jun-29-10 03:29 PM |
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I'm please to hear that the "ineffective" boycotts... |
LanternWaste |
Jun-29-10 02:19 PM |
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They got that $70 million by selling oil to another oil company to refine |
hack89 |
Jun-29-10 02:36 PM |
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One drop in the bucket can capsize a boat... |
LanternWaste |
Jun-29-10 02:40 PM |
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$70 million represents one day's profit for BP |
hack89 |
Jun-29-10 03:50 PM |
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Then we gave them a bad day. Let's work to give them two. |
caseymoz |
Jun-29-10 05:26 PM |
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Destroying the livelihood of innocent Americans |
hack89 |
Jun-29-10 06:16 PM |
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they entered a contract w/ bp... if bp hadn't decided to help the owners- they'd have been |
stlsaxman |
Jun-29-10 06:35 PM |
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You can of course point us towards a large-scale |
LanternWaste |
Jun-29-10 07:15 PM |
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This will fail |
hack89 |
Jun-29-10 07:53 PM |
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See my post #67, and please don't add the lecture about the "working poor" too. |
caseymoz |
Jun-30-10 07:48 PM |
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Do you believe that oil companies can manipulate gas prices? |
hack89 |
Jun-30-10 09:49 PM |
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If they have to take any measure they wouldn't have taken before, you've hurt them. |
caseymoz |
Jul-01-10 11:28 AM |
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No you haven't |
hack89 |
Jul-01-10 04:08 PM |
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How can you now know things will be the same a year from now |
caseymoz |
Jul-01-10 05:39 PM |
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Government regulation is the answer |
hack89 |
Jul-01-10 09:12 PM |
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And our corporate, sponsored government can't withstand pressure as well? |
caseymoz |
Jul-02-10 12:39 AM |
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The way to help them is not to buy gas |
spinbaby |
Jun-30-10 01:03 PM |
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They benefited from the damn logo. |
caseymoz |
Jun-30-10 04:42 PM |
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So find a way to punish those in charge without needless collateral damage |
hack89 |
Jun-30-10 09:43 PM |
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My need to punish, how about the need to change things before we're extinct? |
caseymoz |
Jul-01-10 11:13 AM |
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boycotting BP won't destroy the livelihood of innocent Americans |
fishwax |
Jun-30-10 08:08 PM |
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Yet my position still stands.. |
LanternWaste |
Jun-29-10 07:13 PM |
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If it don't cause long term change, then it is a waste of time |
hack89 |
Jun-29-10 07:57 PM |
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You're not going to prompt long-term change without measures like it. |
caseymoz |
Jul-01-10 12:09 PM |
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If it were economically better for them to do that |
caseymoz |
Jun-29-10 02:57 PM |
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VICTORY IS MINE! n/t |
Ian David |
Jun-29-10 02:48 PM |
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Jean-Michel Cousteau-Gulf Stream will take oil spill to England. |
Yeahyeah |
Jun-29-10 03:39 PM |
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Ask some poor clerk at a BP station who lost their job because of the boycott how they feel, |
elocs |
Jun-29-10 04:30 PM |
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People lose jobs all the time. |
Cattledog |
Jun-29-10 04:52 PM |
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Well, just wait until it's your turn. Not so funny then, is it? n/t |
elocs |
Jun-29-10 05:16 PM |
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typical |
Robbien |
Jun-29-10 05:00 PM |
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Typical. Do something where somebody gets hurt, but so long as it's not you it's ok. |
elocs |
Jun-29-10 05:20 PM |
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If it didn't effect you or yours |
Robbien |
Jun-29-10 05:37 PM |
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This is why we should never end war. All those people making missiles |
crikkett |
Jun-29-10 06:43 PM |
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What's wrong with criminal and civil sanctions |
hack89 |
Jun-29-10 06:19 PM |
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Because our justice system doesn't prosecute corporations any more these days |
Robbien |
Jun-29-10 06:23 PM |
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So your answer is to punish the working poor? |
hack89 |
Jun-29-10 07:49 PM |
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That's why I buy gas at BP |
hack89 |
Jun-29-10 06:18 PM |
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Who are the people working in BP's competitor fuel stations? |
Uncle Joe |
Jun-29-10 07:30 PM |
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Those competitor gas stations are probably selling fuels made with BP products |
PacerLJ35 |
Jun-29-10 07:34 PM |
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Those competitor stations are not paying BP franchise fees. n/t |
Uncle Joe |
Jun-29-10 07:36 PM |
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BP franchise fees are a very small part of BP's income, and this is hurting small business far more |
PacerLJ35 |
Jun-29-10 07:43 PM |
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BP has a long term track record of abuse, which any prospective station owner could have researched. |
Uncle Joe |
Jun-29-10 07:57 PM |
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That could be said with regard to any large energy corporation... |
PacerLJ35 |
Jun-29-10 08:06 PM |
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Re: The Exxon Valdez Spill, BP's role in it and the issue of shoddy emergency response plans. |
Uncle Joe |
Jun-30-10 09:59 AM |
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I'm sure the small gas station owners got to review those shoddy ER plans |
PacerLJ35 |
Jul-01-10 05:43 PM |
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Americans - I support them too. |
hack89 |
Jun-29-10 07:59 PM |
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and BP convenience stores are the only ones employing American workers? |
fishwax |
Jun-30-10 08:14 PM |
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No - I think it is wrong to pit worker against worker |
hack89 |
Jun-30-10 09:39 PM |
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so you shop at every single store? |
fishwax |
Jun-30-10 10:03 PM |
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I make it a point to shop at as many local stores as I can |
hack89 |
Jun-30-10 10:06 PM |
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and the ones you don't? I guess you don't care about workers there? |
fishwax |
Jun-30-10 10:15 PM |
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I live in a small town - I spend money at every gas station. |
hack89 |
Jun-30-10 10:20 PM |
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Does that mean you want the workers at the non-BP stations on your trip to lose their jobs? |
fishwax |
Jun-30-10 10:28 PM |
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Why would they lose their jobs if your boycott is so successful? |
hack89 |
Jul-01-10 08:57 AM |
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it's quite easy to grasp -- you don't like the boycott, and plan to take it out on the working poor |
fishwax |
Jul-01-10 12:00 PM |
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But since your boycott is so successful |
hack89 |
Jul-01-10 03:45 PM |
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Just like some poor schmuck working for KBR or Halliburton, right? |
Ignis |
Jun-30-10 02:05 PM |
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assuming people still buy gas, then they're simply supporting clerks at other stores |
fishwax |
Jun-30-10 08:12 PM |
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Cry me a river, boo-hoo-hoo |
Hugabear |
Jun-30-10 09:45 PM |
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Well, don't expect anyone to cry a river if you were to lose your job either. |
elocs |
Jul-01-10 06:13 AM |
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OR: Ask the wildlife what it's like to be covered in oil and burned alive. |
Dark |
Jul-01-10 07:07 AM |
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I assume you are against boycotting any company in the world |
Bidault |
Jul-01-10 12:05 PM |
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If you REALLY want to do something to show your frustration/anger... |
PacerLJ35 |
Jun-29-10 07:34 PM |
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I agree with you regarding conservation, but the kind of long term, chronic disregard exhibited |
Uncle Joe |
Jun-29-10 07:47 PM |
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You act like BP was the only petroleum company that had issues |
PacerLJ35 |
Jun-29-10 08:09 PM |
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People making major investments by purchasing fuel stations and determining which brand to |
Uncle Joe |
Jun-30-10 09:32 AM |
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What does that have to do with punishing the clerks |
hack89 |
Jun-30-10 01:57 PM |
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You must not have read the OP, so I will repost a segment here for you reading pleasure. |
Uncle Joe |
Jun-30-10 02:14 PM |
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Do you believe that oil companies can manipulate gas prices? |
hack89 |
Jun-30-10 10:10 PM |
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The writing is on the wall and the oil companies are gradually losing their power. |
Uncle Joe |
Jul-01-10 09:52 AM |
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um, reducing consumption would hurt the little guy much more than a boycott would |
fishwax |
Jun-30-10 08:23 PM |
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50-70 million is nothing... |
MellowDem |
Jun-29-10 08:21 PM |
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It would normally go to lobbyists and politicians. |
superconnected |
Jun-30-10 12:55 PM |
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Sometimes I have to still buy gas from BP |
sofa king |
Jul-01-10 09:14 AM |
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