Let's boycott BP so they can't afford to fix their problem! /sarcasm - General

Jesus, my perception of idiots on the internet has changed so much in the past half hour... those are some Dumb Ass Motherfuckers on that page... :colbert:

[QUOTE=Tomaster;23792197]Which one do you think Americans are more likely to care about though? The one that's hitting their beaches, or the one halfway across the world?[/QUOTE] You appear to have incorrectly assumed that either everyone is from America or only America has news channels. I live in the UK why should I give a fuck about an oil spill in America? (And the fact its BP doesn't make a difference)

According to April I'm a spooge. [editline]04:33AM[/editline] Just gonna reply to all of her posts with "Why u mad tho?" now, see how long she'll argue for.

:lol: good good

[QUOTE=Stupid April Bitch] WHY..CUZ I LIVE ON THE GULF...AND SEE WITH MY OWN EYES WHAT IS GOING ON...WE ARE BREATHIING PB DISPERSENT!! THEY KILLING THE WILDLIFE.. I SEE THEM... I SEE MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS LIVES DESTROYED!!!!!!! GET IT YET?? no...of course not!!!!!!!!!!!! .[/QUOTE] Why u mad tho worked.

If you're gonna troll, go on /b/. [url]http://boards.4chan.org/b/res/260381053[/url] But I made this thread so that people can discuss this, not plot irritation.

[quote="Some person on fb"] Yeah - besides boycotting BP we need to seriously work on reducing our use of petrol based products. You can find and use vegi-based plastics if you need your plastics. Try glass. Walk, ride a bike, take public transportation. Convert your vehicle to bio-fuels. Take cloth bags to the store and use them. Take ext...ra and give one to the person behind you in line. We need to start taking control of our world and passing good forward! [/quote] I just cannot understand the stupidity behind this. I LOVE how she suggests using public transport to avoid using petrol / oil, same with the suggestion to use glass for things. Also, vegi plastic. Please tell me this doesn't actually exist.

[QUOTE=tehfrog;23793335]:lol: good good[/QUOTE] I love how at the start nobody has an argument they just pick at the fact that you are young. Then near the end there is one person actually saying something and then some dumb broad saying things irrelevant to the argument.

I never understand how using those ecobags they sell for a lot more than they're worth is helping anything, you're one less person using plastic bags that are still going to be made regardless.

[QUOTE=Badunkadunk;23793564]I never understand how using those ecobags they sell for a lot more than they're worth is helping anything, you're one less person using plastic bags that are still going to be made regardless.[/QUOTE] I dunno about the rest of the world but in the UK / Europe shops are slowly (Seems to be quicker in Europe, all the major stores in countries I have visited have had no disposable bags) getting rid of disposable bags and will not buy them any more. Eventually the demand will dry up and they will stop being made.

[QUOTE=Walrus.;23793537]I love how at the start nobody has an argument they just pick at the fact that you are young. Then near the end there is one person actually saying something and then some dumb broad saying things irrelevant to the argument.[/QUOTE] i added her and argued on her facebook page. i told her to give me her opinion truthfully. she said BP SPILLED OIL. THEY ARENT CLEANING IT UP BUT YOU BELEIVE THAT LIE. THEY ARE PUTTING TOXINS IN THE WATER then she admediatly blocked me before i could comment back, so that means she knows im right. i win. [img]http://memegenerator.net/april-the-cunt/ImageMacro/1886154/april-the-cunt-survey-sez-im-a-cunt.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Jsm;23793515]Also, vegi plastic. Please tell me this doesn't actually exist.[/QUOTE] Vegetable plastics are fucking awesome, why would you not want them to exist?

[QUOTE=Billiam;23793773]Vegetable plastics are fucking awesome, why would you not want them to exist?[/QUOTE] Because plastic should be evil. But seriously, I hadn't heard of it up till then. It seems like a good but I guess growing the required plants to make it would have the same issue as oil made from rapeseed, it takes up space where food could be growing.

cause BP doesn't have a ridiculous amount of profit to spend or anything, my $3 a gallon is the deciding factor. I'm not really boycotting though because I know that all big oil companies cut corners and are likely to have a similar fuck up.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM[/media]

Hahaha, they removed all our posts.

[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;23791615]BP had the rights to the well and its operation of it during the spill, thus it is their fault. If you rent a car and drive it into a house killing people inside, it is not the company who owns the car, it is the person who was renting/leasing it at the time of the indecent[/QUOTE] But if you're leasing a car and the wheels fall off as you're driving down the road, resulting in the deaths of multiple civilians, it's the fault of the company the leased the car, not the person driving it.

[QUOTE=MrAltaco;23792796]Boycotting BP stations is stupid not only for the reasons everyone has done here. The fact of the matter is that the profit BP gets from gas stations pretty much amounts to the branding, BP gas stations are operated totally separately from BP.[/QUOTE] Some of them are, some aren't. And the ones that aren't owned by BP are under contract with BP, if they suffer low sales they can just end the contract early and switch to another supplier. Also this thread made me laugh. You guys are all calling everyone in that facebook group stupid and saying they're just in on the anti-BP fad cause it's trendy, when you're just trying to protect BP because you want to appear intellectual and don't want to look like a common conformist jumping on the bandwagon. It all seems kind of vain. BP has done plenty wrong regarding the oil-spill, just because it was an accident doesn't mean nobody is responsible.

[QUOTE=DigiTech;23794497]But if you're leasing a car and the wheels fall off as you're driving down the road, resulting in the deaths of multiple civilians, it's the fault of the company the leased the car, not the person driving it.[/QUOTE] Unless you knew of the shitty axle and never did anything about it, and drove even faster regardless. Then you would both be at fault. [editline]12:33AM[/editline] [QUOTE=a203xi;23794602]Some of them are, some aren't. And the ones that aren't owned by BP are under contract with BP, if they suffer low sales they can just end the contract early and switch to another supplier. Also this thread made me laugh. You guys are all calling everyone in that facebook group stupid and saying they're just in on the anti-BP fad cause it's trendy, when you're just trying to protect BP because you want to appear intellectual and don't want to look like a common conformist jumping on the bandwagon. It all seems kind of vain. BP has done plenty wrong regarding the oil-spill, just because it was an accident doesn't mean nobody is responsible.[/QUOTE] BP is a shitty company with a shitty safety record, but forcing them to go down would loose hundreds of thousands of jobs world wide. May gulf coast citizens including, so BP going down would just hurt the coast more in the long run.

I don't know the specifics, but from what I understand this is BP's fault but not exclusively. A lot of things came together to allow this failure to happen. Isn't it time we found an alternative to oil? It's dirty burning, cumbersome to extract, dangerous, and it's finite. I saw a documentary about oil that also says oil won't even have to deplete before it becomes becomes unfeasible for use because extracting it will become so hard that it will actually lead to a net decrease in energy.

[QUOTE=gasmaskalt;23791507]And the other 10% are so fucked up on drugs that they take the most irrational side of the argument.[/QUOTE] Drugs? It's always drugs isn't it? [b]MONEY[/b] is the problem. BUSINESS is the problem. Ever thought that the people who want to boycott BP are shareholders, pissed off with the demise of their investments? If BP, and everyone else wasn't so money-greedy they would not have blown the well in the first place. If theres NO competition, and lets say only one company owned the world's oil industry, then that company wouldn't need to over-work it's rigs to dangerous levels in order to keep up. In the end, that company would have enough money to invest in other things, like alternative energy etc. But because theres so many oil companies, all of them are competing to make money, and are destroying everything in the process.

[QUOTE=|FlapJack|;23790882]Anyone blaming BP for what happens need a good [i]punch in the face[/i]. Facts: BP didn't make the rig, BP didn't own the rig, BP was just the company buying oil from the drillers - yes, they put un-necessary pressure on them to get more oil out of the well, but every company with half a mind would try to get as much money in as little time as possible, otherwise they'd be a shit company. BP are now spending immense amounts of money (which realistically will end them as a company) trying to clean up the mess. It's [url=www.facepunch.com]fucking incredible[/url] that people are retarded enough to think boycotting BP would do any good at all.[/QUOTE] I agree with all of this, but they were given the option to fix a problem which they didn't take, so of course people are going to take a position similar to the OMG OBAMA SOCIALIST DEVIL MUSLIM LOVER people. They are actually similar in how they have no idea how things work

Some of these people are fucking psychopaths... [quote]Alex you are an obvious young lad. too young to understand that if you let big industry slap you around you will get owned. when the allies went into germany to bomb it to living hell were they thinking about the innocent lives at stake? no... you just have to get the God damn job done. i feel bad for your future. you will have a billion dollar business man slapping you around while making you pay 10 a gallon gas because he said you have too.[/quote]Some guy I was talking to on face book, yes, he really just said that killing thousands upon thousands of German civilians was OK because we had to get the job done. This is probably the kind of guy that thinks we should nuke the middle east to get it over with. Fucking Christ man. How the fuck do you even go from BP argument > Allies killing civilians?

I don't blame BP in particular because it could of been any company that caused the spill, I just blame the whole industry, and to a slightly lesser extent mankind, because if we weren't addicted to oil then we wouldn't have companies forcing what little oil we have left out of these wells.

BP are a good company, without them Oil prices would go up as there would be less oil being extracted

[QUOTE=Jsm;23793515]I just cannot understand the stupidity behind this. I LOVE how she suggests using public transport to avoid using petrol / oil, same with the suggestion to use glass for things. Also, vegi plastic. Please tell me this doesn't actually exist.[/QUOTE] She's only slightly stupid, vegi plastics is the only thing there that doesn't exist/doesn't helps. also public transport uses less petrol per person than using a car. The fact that she wants to get us off our horrable adiction is good not bad.

[QUOTE=Billiam;23793157]Shut the fuck up dude,[/QUOTE] Don't think I will, instead I'll mail you some of these. [img]http://www.dmn.dmatter.org/Inside/images/Pill.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=TailsPrower;23791643]BP is going to have to make it right, and if that means sucking them dry, people will not care. [/QUOTE] They will care when their pensions, which are invested in BP, go under with the company. There are a [i]lot[/i] of American pensions invested in BP, including the pensions of quite a few of those people who want BP to go bankrupt. If you lose your fishing spot [i]and then[/i] your pension, you won't be happy.

[QUOTE=TailsPrower;23791366]BP wrote up the commission for the well BP approved the plans for the well BP had direct control over the operations on the well BP willingly ignored safety issues on the well BP is bound by international laws to fix the problem [B]BP has set aside 400 billion dollars to cover the cost of the spill, and has no plans to go bankrupt.[/B][/QUOTE] :psyduck:

Just start reporting April so she loses her facebook rights.