SoFla Station Owners Feeling BP Boycott Blues

[RamboLiberal]

Source: NBC Miami

As Day 60 of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill nears and tens of thousands of gallons of crude continue to gush from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, South Floridians are venting their outrage over the spill at the pumps.

Some drivers have been boycotting South Florida BP stations for weeks now, forcing some independent owners to distance themselves from the oil giant. One station owner in Boca even created big signs to let customers know where he stands.

Owners like Max Alvarez, who owns or supplies more than 300 gas stations throughout Florida, many of them BP, said locals are feeling the pinch of the boycott -- not BP.

"The message if not affecting the right people, the message is not affecting BP," Alvarez said. "The messages are affecting the very families who are innocent, who are also very upset and angry of what happened."

On Facebook, the BP boycott has over 640,000 people on board, though BP Oil doesn't own stations in America, it only supplies them with gasoline.

Read more: http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/SoFla-Station-Owners-Feeling-BP-Boycott-Blues-96554654.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. That's unfortunate. They're just independent vendors who are not at fault. nt

[FLPanhandle]

2. "it only supplies them with gasoline"

It's not supplying them gasoline for free. My money would still be going to BP.

[Ian David]

3. Thank you, Captain Obvious. n/t

[HockeyMom]

4. I've been buying CITGO for years

Never bought BP before anyway. It's more expensive than CITGO.

[bc3000]

5. I was already boycotting the BP near my house for their outrageous beer prices.

And they don't even put the prices on the beer. You have to bring it to the counter to find out how much it costs. I guess it's one of those "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" things.

[1Hippiechick]

6. What's stopping the BP franchise owners from banding together and making demands of BP? n/t

[Statistical]

7. What demands? n/t