There are at least a half dozen gas stations in my area that have "covered up" or replaced their BP signs with those of rival brands.
This is insane.
A former client of mine and general counsel for a petroleum refiner and retailer put it to me this way: the gas you get at the pump is not from the oil drilled by the same company.
I made a risky joke about how I preferred Citgo's "socialist oil" from Hugo Chavez's wells, and she didn't laugh. Venezuela was, she explained, their largest single supplier of crude.
Exploration, drilling, refining and retailing are all different pieces in the chain that get oil from the Macondo oilfield to gas that goes into your tank.
In other words, the stuff that's pouring out of that well could just have easily ended up in the tanks at a Mobil station, or a Valero, or a Sunoco.
The only effective boycott would be to ride your bike to work.
This is insane.
A former client of mine and general counsel for a petroleum refiner and retailer put it to me this way: the gas you get at the pump is not from the oil drilled by the same company.
I made a risky joke about how I preferred Citgo's "socialist oil" from Hugo Chavez's wells, and she didn't laugh. Venezuela was, she explained, their largest single supplier of crude.
Exploration, drilling, refining and retailing are all different pieces in the chain that get oil from the Macondo oilfield to gas that goes into your tank.
In other words, the stuff that's pouring out of that well could just have easily ended up in the tanks at a Mobil station, or a Valero, or a Sunoco.
The only effective boycott would be to ride your bike to work.
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