Holy Crap Free gas!!

[orelalaith]

BP is offering "loyalty Rewards" !  $10 rebate per 5 fillups (8 gallons of gas)  up to $30.

The details are at thislink; basically you fill up 8+ gallons, take the receipt to the cashier.

Comments

[terminalmalaise]

But um...it's BP!!

[orelalaith]

not buying from BP doesn't prevent them from making money; it only screws over the people who owns the specific franchises.

The oil industry works like this:

BP drills for oil.
BP SELLS that crude to the international refinery market
BP BUYS the refined oil which it then sells to the guys that own the franchises.

Besides, if BP goes under, then whoever buys them up will get away with spnding less money on cleaning up their mess. It's not that I don't think they are gonna ACTUALLY pay up... but the new firm which buys them will have a btter legal leg to NOT pay up.

[bwrynn]

Are you kidding me? This is the New Era, where all organized groups that make money spend less money, and nothing ever goes under, lest we threaten our gods. I'm boycotting because I knee-jerk feel better about it, but BP is over the perceived-wealth-threshold such that they will be allowed to truck onward into infinity regardless of failure, see also bailout - n.

[manderx]

-chevron-texaco poisoned a massive region of ecuador, and intentionally bypassed local water treatment in CA pumping toxic water into the ground...
-BP-exxon-mobile takes up most of the local market.
-Shell has some human rights violations in africa.
-Gulf is like a zombie brand that died, was consumed by the other big companies and still lives on. If you buy from them, you don't know who you're really buying from.
-I suppose chevron-texaco-sunoco isn't too bad, but driving the extra 5-10 miles probably isn't worth it, considering you can't control who's oil you are getting out of the pipeline.

I suppose you could get a diesel and power your car with McDonalds fryer oil.

[purpleallison]

Pretty cool, thanks for the heads up!