BP Products North America

Where should I start that fact that I got «gas» which was really water that caused over a thousand dollars in damage or the fact that it is now 4 months later and I still have not received reimbursement for the damage that q as caused to my car. I have spent countless hours dealing with them.

With all the negative comments coming from ChicagoLand, all I can say is be careful what you wish for.
Here on the West Coast BP had a similar situation in that in the late 80’s BP acquired Mobil Oils assets from Bakersfield to the Canadian border. In the early 90’s BP said that it’s refining capacity had been met and it needed to build another refinery on the West Coast to meet the demands of the consumers. Well to understate it, that idea didn’t go over very well with the PUC, the environmental groups, or the public in general. BP stood firm with there demands that a new refinery was desperately needed, and if they were not permitted to build one, they were out of here.
Long story short, no permit was issued and BP pulled out of the entire West Coast market, although shortly before their exodus the did acquire ARCO, but with the strict PUC ruling that BP could not change ARCO’s marketing strategy (No credit cards, lower prices) nor could they kill the brand. But what did happen is all those thousands of former Mobil stations were unloaded to Tosco under the 76 brand.
So almost overnight there were 76 stations everywhere, literally across the street from each other up and down the West Coast. Natural supply and demand took hold and the 76’s that sold the most gallons stayed, the others were closed, that combined with the Chevron /​Texaco merger which wiped Texaco off the map here left us with absolutely no competition. With only Shell, Chevron, and 76 in the game, we pay the highest price for gas in the United States except for Hawaii!
It’s been that way ever since. I suggest that a compromise be reached before yo end up with a similar fate, at one point we were paying $ 7 a gallon! Ridiculous!

BP/​IN sucks the sweat off a dead mans balls.

used to work for them. So glad I’m no longer associated with that joke of a corporation… Don’t forget that back 10 years or so they took over AMOCO and threw out 10k people… u should see how they waste money and the profits they make… they held townhalls for employees telling them that Chicago, press and public is full of crap… FUCK THEM in a major way people!!!

Since BP feels that it is OK to drop crap into my drinking water I feel that it is OK to not drop another penny into thier pockets as long as I shall live. I hope many, many others follow in my footsteps.

NO BP for me!
Thanks for polluting my front yard. We really do not need anymore crap in our water or washing up on our shores. Oh, and I prefer clean drinking and bathing water. If I wanted to bathe in sludge, I would come to your facility.
Really, are 80 jobs worth it?
I do not care if you are under the legal limit! What a load.
If you care so much about the environment,
STOP POLLUTING!
period.
end of discussion.
Oh, and nice try, ~~~
your effort to fully sneak it by Chicago failed,
but only by a hair.
Your ethics are appalling.
Don’t even pretend that you did not try and keep a lid on things.
You suck!

Lets begin people.
So I’m sure half of you have also bitched about the price of gas, yeah cutting supply would be an amazing way to help with that. We all complain about our dependency on the Middle East etc but as soon as BP tries to produce oil to decrease that dependency they are immediately shut down
Yes some toxins will be emitted. There is always payoff. It is ridiculous to say, BP has money figure it out. If all it took was money to eliminate toxic emissions it would clearly be done. As a BP employee I know for a fact that a huge financial sum is being put into the Whiting refinery in more ways then one. There is not enough space to substantially increase the efficiency of Whiting. BP is still operating within the federal guidelines of emission standards. These guidelines were created for a reason because it sets the level of a safe toxic group. And all of the senators are just throwing out their two sense because its election time. As always this is a result of an under-​educated public that makes opinions without facts.
Yes, nobody wants to pollute the earth especially our drinking water. But the negative does not outweigh the positive. The lake will still be safe to drink out of and occupy. As a public we will notice no difference because of how small the amount of toxins is. And Yes, BP is an oil company that makes a lot of money. We are the ones driving everywhere and demanding that supply. There are only trying to meet the demand that we create. And yes they will make money off this oil but for you it will be good, it will just decrease the profits of other oil companies. The more competition, the better the price.

I’m never getting gas, Gatorade, gum, or even bike tire air there ever again!

Worst. Oil Company. Ever.
As a consumer, I am very unhappy with the overpriced fuel this company sells. I am sick of being raped at the pump.
As a geek, I find their so called research into alternate fuels to be a joke at best. Sure, I can believe an oil company is looking into new technologies which will render their main product obsolete. Hell, I’ll go call my elite flying butt monkey squadron for that one.
Although, they could be doing research on alternate fuels so that they can patent everything resulting in everything not reaching the general public for another 20 years
But as a Chicago resident, someone who drinks Lake Michigan water, I find their company to be exceptionally shitty for wanting to dump their byproduct shit into the lake.
I honestly hope they are stopped… either by the government, or by the public. I honestly hope they will no longer pollute our water ways.
I only wish I could give these euphemisms for rectal apertures below a 1 star rating for their actions.
EDIT: Here is the link to BP’s webpage which gives «information» about this refinery and the proposed expansion (with resulting extra lake dumping)…
EDIT: From
The Chicago Tribune, «BP dumps mercury in lake» (7÷27÷2007)

«A little-​noticed exemption in BP’s controversial new state water permit gives the oil company until 2012 to meet strict federal limits on mercury discharges. In documents, Indiana regulators predict the refinery won’t be able to comply and will ask to continue polluting after that date.
Federal records analyzed by the Tribune show BP puts 2 pounds of mercury into the lake every year from its sprawling plant 3 miles southeast of Chicago in Whiting, Ind.
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Under standards adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1995, BP’s annual discharge of the metal should be reduced to ⁸⁄₁₀₀^th of a pound.
A Tribune review of federal records shows that the waste water the BP refinery pumps into Lake Michigan includes more than a dozen toxic byproducts of oil refining, including benzene, toluene and suspended solids containing mercury, lead, nickel and vanadium.
The refinery is the top industrial source of lead, nickel and ammonia pollution directly released into the lake, according to the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory. It also is one of only two industrial polluters on the lake that dump acetonitrile, a chemical that metabolizes in the environment to cyanide.
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In documents filed with the permit, though, the agency noted that levels of mercury and lead detected in the refinery’s waste water „show a reasonable potential“ to violate water quality standards.»
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only because i can’t give zero–
BOYCOTT BP! VIVA EL LAGO!

What burns me up is these guys have tried to rationalize their dumping of pollutants into the lake by showing a glass of a clear liquid, as if that proves purity, safety, and cleanliness.
Stop with the charade. You are polluting the lake — the source of our drinking water, our recreation, our solace.
I’m figuratively sickened — my hope is never to be literally sickened by what these guys, and companies like them, are doing and want to continue doing to the lake.