Reply #66: You must not have read the OP, so I will repost a segment here for you reading pleasure. [View All]

[Uncle Joe]

BP Offers $70 Million in Cash to Gas Station Owners
Source: NPR

BP has announced plans to send cash to suffering gas stations in the US -- which is pretty revealing. It's evidence that the numerous boycotts against BP that have been orchestrated across the nation are indeed having a very distinct, very significant impact. Those boycotts and the bad PR have had a serious and immediate financial impact, and will validate such action in the eyes of many activists. But BP plans to push back.

So obviously this part of your post is false.

What does that have to do with punishing the clerks
Posted by hack89
and other working stiffs who have jobs at all those BP stations? Are you really sure you can't satisfy your desire to punish someone without impacting all those low wage workers? Are you hurting them just because they are the only ones you can hurt?

Furthermore my post was addressing the responsibilty of those gas station owners as a response to your post which I listed below.

I say if the convenience store owners knew ahead of the time that they were associating themselves with a "reckless" corporation, then fine. But it's more than likely they had no idea of the internal issues within BP. To them, they were just another brand of gasoline.