BP Retail Brands List: AM/PM, ARCO, CASTROL (In case you want to boycott)

[flamingdem]

# 8 BP retail brands

* 8.1 BP
* 8.2 ampm
* 8.3 ARCO
* 8.4 BP Travel Centre
* 8.5 BP Connect
* 8.6 BP Express
* 8.7 BP Shop
* 8.8 BP 2go
* 8.9 Castrol
* 8.10 Air BP and BP Shipping

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP

** Also of note here:
BP was also recently awarded a satirical prize, the "Emerald Paintbrush" award, by Greenpeace UK. The "Emerald Paintbrush" award was given to BP in order to highlight its alleged greenwashing campaign. Critics point out that while BP advertises its relatively minimal investment in alternative energy sources, the majority of its investments continue to go into fossil fuels.<81>

BP Amoco changed its name to BP in 2000, and introduced a new corporate slogan: “Beyond Petroleum.” It replaced its “Green Shield” logo with the helios symbol, a green and yellow sunflower pattern similar to the emblem of the Green Party of Canada. These changes were intended to highlight the company’s interest in alternative and environmentally friendly fuels. When, in July 2006, BP admitted, only after journalists became aware of the spill, that it was facing criminal charges for allowing 270,000 gallons of crude oil to spread into the Alaskan tundra, critics pointed to the relative lack of press coverage about the spill as evidence that BP had successfully greenwashed its image while maintaining environmentally unsound practices.<69><70>

BP was one nominee for the 2009 Greenwash Awards, on companies trying to look green and failing.<71>

[Mind_your_head]

1. I'm too *stupid* to spread the hate around.....I'll just focus on BP (British Petroleum)....

....that's just so much easier and straighforward....that's all my *consumer* brain can absorb for now. hehe.....

[flamingdem]

2. Arco is a tough one to avoid when the tank is nearly at zero! nt

[amborin]

9. to think i used arco to avoid exxon/mobil

[amborin]

10. ps: in CA, also pls avoid Valero, a Tx corp that wants to overturn CA's pollution laws

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. A BIG K&R

:kick:

[snagglepuss]

4. k & r. nt

[daughter of liberty2]

5. Thanks for the post!

:hi:

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. BP has the Largest Superfund Site in the United States which is ARCO

America's Largest Superfund Site: Butte, Montana
Buttians like superlatives, whether or not they are factual: "Richest Hill on Earth" (it wasn't--that honor goes to Butte's sister-city Chuquicamata); "Butte, America" (an effort to stress the national importance of the city, as opposed to it being just another two-bit Montana town); "A city of more than 100,000 people" (no, the census data indicates that the population peaked around 1920 at just over 40,000, with a total county population of about 60,000).

But there is one area where Butte is the undisputed champ: Superfund.

America's largest Superfund site (1) begins with Butte in western Montana at the headwaters of the Clark Fork River. The upper Clark Fork River Basin is truly a Superfund megasite, taking in three major Superfund sites (each a megasite in its own right) and numerous "operable units."(2) Because the environmental and human health damages in this area were all caused by the mining and smelting operations of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, this complex of Superfund sites should be considered as a whole.


The Environmental Protection Agency defines a megasite if "the total costs of removal and remedial actions will exceed $50 million." (3) Most of the dozen or so operable units within the Upper Clark Fork River Basin megasite complex have a price tag exceeding $100 million, and the total cost will exceed $1 billion by a wide margin.


Some of the major sites and operable units within the Clark Fork River complex, along with the year in which they made the EPA's National Priorities List, include:
Anaconda Smelter-Community Soils site (300 square miles), listed in 1983

Stream Side Tailings site (26-mile long Silver Bow Creek near Butte), listed in 1983
Milltown Dam site (2.6 million cubic yards of contaminated sediments), listed in 1983

Berkeley Pit operable unit, an open pit copper mine in uptown Butte (more than 30 billion gallons of highly toxic, low-pH water), added to Butte’s Stream Side Tailings Site in 1984

Clark Fork River operable unit (more than 120 stream miles) above Milltown Dam to the Warm Springs Ponds, added to the Milltown Site in 1985

Butte Priority Soils operable unit, in the uptown area of the town (12.4 million cubic yards of waste spread throughout urban neighborhoods), added to the Stream Side Tailings Site in 1987
To give you some idea of the extent of this area, consider the map of the megasite comples (below), with a superimposed outline of the state of Connecticut.


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_t4MIXLdITZw/RikVGyIk2kI/AAAAAAAAAYw/qmDE-_0BMhc/s400/UCFRB+map.jpg


The EPA has reached a Record of Decision for most of the operable units within the Clark Fork River complex of sites. The estimated cost to achieve remedy under these RODs is as follows. Keep in mind that approximately $700 million has already been spent on emergency actions and various studies.


http://ecorover.blogspot.com/2007/04/americas-largest-superfund-site-butte.html

[flamingdem]

8. thanks for that nt

[upi402]

7. Chevron bought Texaco. Exxon is nowhere to be seen

I guess Citgo is ok. Thanks for the list, I'll miss AMPM.