Denton wrote:
The British Petroleum BP Corporation has laughed at us stupid Americans
for 34 days. They've ruined one of our greatest natural resources and
decimated thousands of lives. Our government acts like it is scared to
make a frowny-face at these English faggots.

We should seize all BP property for starters; but we won't because we
gutless.

BP...with the so-called "Queen" a major stockholder...needs us to send a
message. Don't spend a dime with these
pricks as our way of saying "thank you for doing a greater act of
terrorism against the US than ANYTHING ever done for which we went to
war over.

Frankly, this will hurt the little guy who owns your local station, and
their employees much more than it'll hurt BP.

The way it works in Connecticut (and probably in most parts of the
country) is there are central terminals where they have huge tanks.
When a tanker comes in, it fills whatever tank(s) have room, and whoever
supplied the gas gets paid. When a tank truck comes in to get gas for
delivery to your local station - no matter what brand it is, it's filled
from whatever tank they're currently emptying.

The difference is each brand has their own additives, so before they
fill up the tank truck with maybe 10k gallons, they put in a tiny amount
of the brand specific additives. (Kinda like adding salt to a hamburger)

Most of BP's money comes from filling the tanks before the gas is
branded.