http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2010/05/27/the-problem-with-a-bp-boycott Comments On: The Problem with a BP Boycott by Chris Wage en-us Copyright 2013 Nashville Scene. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Nashville Scene readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Nashville Scene. wil@desert.net (Nashville Scene Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by BubbaJindal]]> Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:13:55 -0500 Nashville Scene
BP has billions and billions of dollars - and if it bankrupts them all the better

owners should have know that they were getting into bed with the devil - BP has a long history of fuckups - owners shouldve done the research or instead bought a Subway francise instead

if you want to support the owners but not bp buy a candy bar or something inside the store - but do not buy the gas - owners make very little off the gas anyways - they pay for the priveledge of having the gas which draws in customers (but like i said they shouldve known who they were getting into bed with from the beginning - most probably did)
Posted by Archangel]]> Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:43:51 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by rsilliman]]> Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:34:21 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Tull]]> Mon, 31 May 2010 17:15:36 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by JT]]> Sat, 29 May 2010 22:54:38 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Nicki P Wood]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 20:51:34 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by jim voorhies]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 13:06:36 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by audiospaceship]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 09:54:43 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by John Hutch]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 09:46:01 -0500 Nashville Scene


Economics Prof. Pat Welch of St. Louis University says any boycott of "bad guy" gasoline in favor of "good guy" brands would have some unintended (and unhappy) results.

. . . Welch says the law of supply and demand is set in stone.
Posted by Chris Wage]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 09:15:06 -0500 Nashville Scene
This isn't an issue with boycotts so much as it is an issue with the specific complexity of oil markets and the distribution chain: the fact that oil companies don't own the gas stations, that oil is a fungible commodity, that gas station franchise branding is purely a function of gas brand marketing (increasingly a relic of the past as well), and so on and so forth.

By all means, feel free to attempt the boycott, but all I'm saying is that if a coordinated boycotting campaign actually took off, it a) wouldn't do anything to BP, and b) would hurt the franchise owners trying to make a buck via the incidental/marginal product sales that people buying gas also buy, c) it could actually make gas prices marginally higher
Posted by Chris Wage]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 09:09:42 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Southern Beale]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 17:19:21 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Lo in Flo]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 15:45:16 -0500 Nashville Scene
http://www.slate.com/id/2255170/
Posted by Tracy]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 15:26:25 -0500 Nashville Scene http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/03/us/six-g… . I would be curious which of the demands of the boycotting parties were met throughout the years by Exxon. I can safely say that safer takers were built and from what I can remember gas prices were lowered to please the public after hiking them after the spill.
Posted by ob1korobi]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 13:21:08 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by ob1korobi]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 13:14:52 -0500 Nashville Scene
On these terms no one would ever boycott.
Posted by Mike Byrd]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 12:06:59 -0500 Nashville Scene
See http://www.greenfuelbooster.com/tipsFrame.…
Posted by gfb]]> Thu, 27 May 2010 11:46:41 -0500 Nashville Scene