Anyone trying to boycott BP is only mostly hurting independently owned mom and pops...andy7171 wrote:$2.59 here in Baltimore. It is weird. Early May it was in the $2.85 range and I was like here we go. But it went down. I'm not going to complain too loudly.
I stopped to fill up yesterday on my way home, noticed it was a BP station and stopped at $8 and left. F ;em.
"......Broadus is among a growing number of people across the USA turning to other oil companies' products to protest BP's actions in the oil spill.
Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at PFGBest Research in Chicago, says it is understandable that people want to get back at BP for the company's role in the worst environmental disaster in a generation. But not filling up at their neighborhood station will not do it, he adds.
"It's a noble effort, but it's really going to hurt the wrong people," Flynn says. BP's 22,400 stations largely are independently owned, family businesses with little connection to the company outside of the sign out front. Even if the boycott slows the sale of BP gasoline at the branded outlets, BP will just sell their gas to no-name stations, he says....."
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