Posted on 06/08/2010 3:53:10 PM PDT by Rufus2007
There are a lot of people angry at BP for causing huge damage to the Gulf of Mexico. As a way to vent some of this emotion, some are volunteering their help to clean up where the oil has washed ashore. Others are petitioning lawmakers to clamp down on oil companies to ensure this doesn't happen again. However, there's one option that has proved to be pointless according to Penn Jillette, half of the famed Vegas duo Penn & Teller.
On the June 8 broadcast of the Fox Business Network's "Imus in the Morning," Jillette said the first thing that amazed him about the entire oil spill catastrophe was the notion of a Facebook group geared toward boycotting BP.
"Well, you know, I don't know there's many different takes to take on it," Jillette said. "I mean, it's just a horrible disaster and a catastrophe. What amazes me about it is on Facebook, they just, they put this thing up, you know, ‘Boycott BP.'"
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Be angry at BP but be rational.
Arco stations here are doing a booming business...
Exactly!!
Sorry, but I’m not even angry at BP.
Do you think they sank a $500 million dollar rig just to piss people off? $7 million dollars of oil spilling into the gulf every day just because they supposedly wanted to save a few bucks? That story sounds good on the evening news shows, but that hype is just for your entertainment
Accidents happen. BP are passing out money to anyone who sends them a claim. They have every available engineer working to solve this. Until all of us stop driving our cars, I won’t be able to muster any anger at BP at all.
BP just wemt a bridge too far. Hayward and the rest of the Brass have NO real understanding how risky this business is—risky in technical terms. One good things will come of this, I hope: they will listen more to their engineers and less to their bookkeepers and flacks.
One of the hazards of modern society must be that it's more interesting to watch a mentally unbalanced person than someone who isn't crazy.
I thought Penn was a screaming liberal?
Besides that, he has a point. So does another poster here. All the BP gas stations are franchises. BP doesn’t own a single one so the boycott is only hurting local businessmen who employ local people.
People don’t think pass their nose most of the time. Zero hasn’t even had a one-on-one with BP’s CEO yet? But the dumbsh!t wants to kick somebodies A$$. He can start with his own.
Penn is a hardcore libertarian.
Penn has a big mouth.....I wanta hear Teller’s opinion.
SHHHHH don't ruin their feel good measure! As always liberal ideas do nothing but damage but the only rea; point is for them to feel good about theirselves for a moment before they turn back to their self hatered!
I’m down with that. I just remember so of the things he had said about Bush that made me think he was liberal.
Be angry at BP but be rational.
+1
I know the family that owns the local BP, and I will continue to frequent their business as opposed to the corporate owned Chevron station.
Better to give money to a friend than to Chavez.
I can’t help but think how much easier this “repair” and cleanup would be if the problem wasn’t a mile under the ocean. I’m angry at those that force these oil companies to drill so far out of reach.
That and BP’s ability to perform clean up. They aren’t the FedGov where they can just print money to pay for this stuff.
BUY BP GAS SO THEY CAN AFFORD TO CLEAN UP THE ACCIDENT!
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