Toward a "realistic" approach to British Petroleum...

[metapunditedgy]

In light of the publicity surrounding recent unpleasant events, the titans of industry who drive the economic dynamo that is British Petroleum should take a long, introspective look at how they could better serve the interests of the public and their shareholders.

While the bully pulpit simply *cannot* be used by Democrats, Congress certainly has the power to request more introspection from BP execs. We should really take Congress to task for not requesting public introspection from BP management. Write your Congressperson now to demand that they stop taking donations from BP until BP expresses its sincere regret to the people of America!

Until Tony Hayward spends some serious time confessing his personal inadequacies to the American public, the economic benefits that big oil corporations provide to us all will be adversely affected!

As Americans, we... all of us... need to face up to our own shortcomings and ask ourselves how we can all help BP to help us. Only then will we fully put this unpleasant event behind us.

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(Can reality be sarcasm?)

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1. To be clear

I would love to be able to boycott BP, or Chevron, or Shell, or whomever. However, boycotting a single big oil company isn't really plausible:


http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/06/should-you-b...

In the meantime, I admit that I do buy my gas from a BP station about a mile down the road from my home. The Indians who run it are in no way any more responsible for the Gulf oil leak than the rest of us who use fossil fuels.

[metapunditedgy]

2. Yeah, I don't think bp is afraid of boycotts. I do think they're going all out

to protect their image, though. A few snowballs of public anger could easily turn into an avalanche against them.