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That Nissan Leaf is looking mighty nice right about now.
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This is precisely the type of information gap that crowdsourcing and hyperlocal journalism could fill. We could all call up our local service stations and refiners, ask where they are getting their gas and crude, and tally up the answers on some kind of WikiMap. Informed consumers would not only be able to impact a company's retail division but its upstream business as well.
#1 Posted by BJB, CJR on Fri 18 Jun 2010 at 06:42 PM
I am a Bp Independent owner, and the boycott is really not hurting Bp in the way people think it will. In fact, it is hurting us the dealers at a large scale. We are the local business owners that support local community events, schools, fire stations, police, and local teams. We are being targeted as the bad guys, when we didn't do anything wrong. We hope Bp can resolve the spill in a fast and environmentally safe manner and we pray that this happens soon because if the boycott continues, a lot of people of local communities will loose jobs and businesses can go out of business. In directly it will hurt the economy as well with more people filling unemployment, unemployment rate going higher, less tax revenue's to state governments, and just a bad chain of events will follow. So the boycott of Bp will only have an negative effect. I urge everyone to not stop buying from BP and at least don't hold the local business owners responsible.
#2 Posted by Bp Independant owner, CJR on Sun 20 Jun 2010 at 12:54 AM
BP/Amoco has destoyed many an old dealer by requiring them to rebuild their stations and go to 24/7 operation. Many decided not to remain with BP/Amoco as it was cost prohibitive for them. BP/Amoco often found another sucker to go for it. The old mom and pop goes under and BP takes over. Why feel sorry for the new guy. BP plays for BP and nobody else!
#3 Posted by Old school dealer, CJR on Mon 21 Jun 2010 at 04:48 AM
Independent BP owners do NOT "support local community events, schools, fire stations, police, and local teams." You're the dealer of a terrible product and that's all. I feel no sympathy for independent franchise owners. Oh, and the boycott will affect BP because it IS. Have you checked their stocks?
#4 Posted by Ryan, CJR on Sat 10 Jul 2010 at 12:38 PM