If BP fights the clean up effort I will do to them what I have done to Exxon.

[sellitman]

I have not purchased Exxon and now Mobile gasoline since the Valdez accident.

I hope BP does everything in it's power to make right what they have screwed up.

Just saying...

[elocs]

1. I wondered what happened to Exxon and Mobile. Now I know. n/t

[sellitman]

2. Glad to help NT

[madokie]

3. I'm not sure how that works

we done some work at a loading dock where they filled the 18 wheelers with gasoline and there were every brand of gas trailers being filled out of the same pipeline, The pipeline was coming from the sunoco refinery a few miles away but yet every brand under the sun was filling their tanker trucks there. We don't have any exxon or bp mobil gas stations around here.

[A HERETIC I AM]

5. You hit the nail on the head.

Gasoline is gasoline. The only differences are additives the various companies put in it.

Oil that comes out of a well with BP's name on it could very easily retail under numerous brand names.

[madokie]

6. Where do they put these different aditives in the gasoline, I wonder?

I didn't see anyone doing anything other than pulling the rigs up to the fill station and filling the tanks. I think they all use straight gasoline same as all the others and just talk their shit about their additives in their commercials. gas is gas and it was coming in a 2ft pipeline straight from the refinery being dispensed into the trucks with 6 inch hoses.

[damntexdem]

8. Gasoline may be gasoline, but companies make profits on what is sold under their names.

I don't care where it comes from, we shouldn't buy it from BP (just as I don't from Exxon/Mobil).

[RoyGBiv]

10. But you often don't know that ...

You're talking about the stations, yes?

You don't know where the gas in the ground came from. Further, you don't know where all the oil came from that went to the refinery that sold to the distributor that put that gas in the ground.

You can avoid the stations branded with a certain oil logo, but you're not hurting the company itself. Most likely you're just taking business away from an individual who relies on the inside sales of the station to make a living.

You can avoid the credit cards, however. That's a big part of oil company consumer business.

[RoyGBiv]

9. Bingo!

It's even more convoluted than that.

All the oil companies sell to each other as a part of their supply chain as well. A consumer cannot "boycott" a specific oil company's products any more than they can adhere to purchasing one company's products they like.

What a consumer *can* do is stay away from the credit cards they offer.

[liberal N proud]

4. I too have boycotted Exxon and Mobil.

Had to buy at an Exxon once because it was the only place open in the middle of the night. But other than that, I will drive 5 miles out of my way to avoid them.

[damntexdem]

7. But BP needs to have done to it what wasn't done to Exxon.

In a years time, there should no longer be a BP -- just assets being scrambled over by those suing for damages.