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Monday, June 14, 2010

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Who remembers American aka Amoco gas? British Petrol bought that years ago. The same BP that is ruining American shorelines today.
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  1. AnonymousJune 14, 2010 at 10:04 AM

    I do... We should all boycott B.P. until they get their act together & clean up their mess. Anyone agree?

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  2. elainebJune 14, 2010 at 12:40 PM

    British Petroleum is a name dropped about 10 years ago and BP is a global company which is 39% -owned by Americans (cf the 41% UK interest). It also employs more people in the USA than in the UK and is a major contributer to USA taxes and pensions. Washington seems to think that damning BP helps --it rather shows up how helpless they are. BP only hired the rig --- notably the companies that owned and ran it seem to have disappeared into the woodwork. The company that carried out the regulatory safety checks is based in some minor island and did it in a few hours compared to the 2-3 weeks normally taken. So, who cut the corner??
    Note: ads on the radio point out that your local BP station is locally family owned ....

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  3. Lanny HoweJune 14, 2010 at 5:26 PM

    I remember Amoco. I didn't realize it got bought out by BP. If you needed gas for your Coleman lantern or stove, you bought "white gas," which was Amoco premium.

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  4. BettieLJune 14, 2010 at 5:37 PM

    Elaine:
    I could not have said it "Better"
    myself...in addition,very few stations if any today are company owned..they usually opt for 10yr
    leases with locals, who do own the
    contents of the convenience stores
    within. The Real Estate location
    remain in that division of the Corp. ( Much like WPRF & Charles
    Benenson Corp.)

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  5. AnonymousJune 15, 2010 at 6:13 AM

    Thanks elaineb for the clarification in regards to B.P., who admit responsibility for this mess by pouring millions in TV & newspaper ads. Invariably, the mistakes "at the top" are too often paid by the little people at the bottom.

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  6. MollieJune 15, 2010 at 11:59 AM

    I do not think we should boycott BP but continue to buy from them so that their employees (Americans) will keep their jobs. This spill was an accident, nobody wanted it to happen. BP did not want 11 family men to die, they did not want their profits spread all over the Gulf and the coastline and marshes. They want this solved and over with as much if not more than any of us. BP needs to continue to make money to pay for the cleanup and pay the claims of the many in the fish industry who have lost their livelihoods. We should work with them to finds ways to prevent this from ever happening again.

    I do not agree with the policy today that we should hate people who don't agree with us. Most are just trying to do the best they can. We can disagree or try to convince them that something else might work better but run down and hate, no. That is so un-American

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  7. RandallJune 17, 2010 at 12:58 PM

    Safety protocols should be in place for the entire industry. Deep-water drilling is wrought with pitfalls. We need to concentrate on the development of safety protocols for such drilling and having standby remediation in the event of a "blow-out" which occurred 59 days ago. The company may be to blame considering the shortcuts taken with a "business as usual attitute", but putting in place oversight inspectors is now apparently a MUST!

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