Are you planning to boycott BP?
As of May 5, the Associated Press reported there didn’t appear to be a consumer backlash against BP. Some commenters on our own Biz Beat blog said accidents happened and the overall feeling on the blog on May 5 wasn’t too angry.
However, 22 days later I’ve been hearing more moms talking about boycotting BP. I kept hearing snippets at the school picnic on Wednesday of moms reminding other moms not to stop at the BP. I also was involved in a conversation about it at the Kroger gas station.
What are you hearing and seeing in your community? Are you planning to boycott BP?
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Mark
June 13th, 2010
9:03 am
Follow a truck and see where it comes from. You will find that all the gas companies get their gas from the same pump.
The only people you will hurt are the mom & pop stations out there that just so have the BP name on the door. Ya put them out of work. You will just hurt yourself in the process.
SA
June 13th, 2010
9:08 am
Given all that plan to boycott BP, I may go out of my way to get gas there in order to support the small business owners that operate these stores.
You are only hurting them if you boycott.
Chris
June 13th, 2010
9:14 am
Small business owner effected by the disaster: fisherman, restaurant owners, tourist guides, artists, consultants, dentists, doctors, lawyers, musicians, builders, dock owners, plumbers, electricians, farmers, mechanics, day care providers….
This list is never ending as long as the oil is gushing.
BP station owners in Georgia are just a few in many that will be put out of business.
FIX IT.
Chris
June 13th, 2010
10:33 am
Body count: 11 humans, 10 dolphins, 50+ pelicans, 50+ gulls, countless terns, gulls, pipers, crabs, shrimp, oysters………..
and rising.
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12:16 pm
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Atl Resident
June 13th, 2010
4:43 pm
Those who boycott should only be the ones that don’t drive cause for those of us that do drive it makes no damn sense, if we get into another hell of a mess with gas prices going up or shortage, it won’t even damn matter where the gas comes from.
Candy mom
June 13th, 2010
5:20 pm
Not only am I going to boycott BP, but every day on my way home from work I have been putting signs up infront of the store saying “Don’t buy BP until they clean up the Gulf.”
Judith Moran
June 19th, 2010
11:36 am
Yup, my daughter and I were just talking about how painfull it is to see inisent animals sufering because of the complacencey of this huge Corporation. The wallet is the a big way to respond to to such a horrific mess BP has caused.
Chuck
July 21st, 2010
9:57 pm
I would like to distribute boycott bp bumper stickers! Anyone have about 1000 to 10,000 stickers
to donate. BP should be held accountable! Every last penny they have should be spent on clean
up and lost income of everyone effected and that still wouldn’t be enough money. Look at the Valdese Oil spill. 20 years later people are still being affected and fishing has never come back
and that was just a fraction of what was dumped in the gulf. Come on people wake up!! Let’s set
an example! Our goverment is just as at fault, they should have jumped on the clean up from day
one and sent BP the bill for every minute they had invested in the clean up. Instead they elected
to sit back and wait. Thats par for the course.
Concerned citizen