Posted on 04/27/2022 7:23:19 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A Reedsburg gas station owner has been fined $400 by British Petroleum (BP) for not removing stickers depicting President Joe Biden claiming responsibility for the surge in gas prices.
"Oil giant BP has fined a US petrol station owner $400 because a customer attached a sticker to her pump which blamed the country's President Joe Biden for the country's high gas prices," Sky News Australia tweeted.
Frustrated Americans have started an anti-Biden sticker trend on gas pumps across the country. Gas station operator Pam Coy told Sky News Australia that while her staff removes stickers when they see them, she agrees with their sentiment.
“We keep taking them off, not that I want to, and they keep putting them back on. We can’t have someone standing out there 24/7 but yeah it cost me $400 in our money from BP because I have those stickers on there. I don’t care. Truth hurts, doesn’t it?” said Coy.
Coy added that BP will reimburse her the $400 if she takes the stickers off the pumps and sends photos to BP with proof. However, she also said, "I don't know, I might just leave them on there for the point. I don't care. It's what people feel."
On April 25, President Biden tweeted "Let’s be clear about two of the reasons prices, including the price of gas, are so high right now: COVID and Vladimir Putin."
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“Even though it is to a much lesser degree, I see it as much the same manner as BLM destroying private property over George Floyd.”
Yeah, putting a humorous sticker on a gas pump or burning the the gas station down are almost the same thing./sarc
A sticker equated with burned businesses… um. Vandalism is property destruction and defacement. Stickers are what you get in first grade. So I am thinking power magnets would be great. Big oil fined this owner.
This is nothing other than COVID 2.0 crisis. Cause it, use it.. and bonus.. replace Putin with a globalist. We are going to love that puppet with all of those resources.
Truth hurts. How coy.
I need to buy some more stickers. I recently ran out. I am noticing them everywhere. Its glorious!
The face of the gas pump becomes the public bulletin board when free speech is censored on the internet. This is what you get when the administration can define what you say as “disinformation” and then cast you out of the discussion.
I spend much of my time negotiating and drafting commercial leases. Much of that time is spent negotiating and drafting what tenants can and can't do in and to their spaces.
Private property=vandalism
See the guy in Pennsylvania who got ARRESTED for stickers.
Yep. The station owner, just like a pizza shop owner, is nothing but a franchise owner who is legally obligated to obey the mandates of the franchise.
I've been putting stickers on the pumps of my local Mobile gas station and yesterday the owner asked me not to. Out of respect to him and his explanation why, I agreed to his request.
Mobile, just like the others, use "mystery shoppers" whose job is to go into the stations and do an assessment of the conditions of the station and the demeanor of the employees then send the report back to Mobile. There are repercussions for a negative report but I don't know what they are.
There's a big difference between renting office space and being a franchise owner, which essentially is what a gas station owner is.
If the franchise wants you to put name tags on your employee's shirts, you put on the name tags. You don't have a choice.......
And another British company owned the tea cast into Boston harbor.
Post of the Day!
BP should’ve been given a month or two to sell off its US holdings, including Amoco, the refineries, etc following the spill.
BP went cheap on repairs and maintenance and cause the spill and a dozen deaths of oil field workers.
BP is hated in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana because of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Disaster THEY CREATED.
All the BP stations around here closed or switched to another brand.
This just gives me another reason to not like them.
I guess it’s another version of that famous BRITISH FREE SPEECH......................
We can take down every Democrat in the country with those stickers and they know it... this is being planted and written just to try and stop the most devastating killer of democrats.
“BP owns the equipment. Vandalism.”
True, but the station owner is not the vandal so they should not be paying anything. Let BP send someone to remove the stickers if it bothers them so much.
Actually, I know an independent gas station owner. He was a Shell and Texaco branded station for years. He is now independent. He thought the stickers were very funny.
I asked if I could put some on his pumps because he figured about a 1/3 of his customers were probably Dems. He took about a half dozen for his own person use.
“If the franchise wants you to put name tags on your employee’s shirts, you put on the name tags. You don’t have a choice.......”
I was addressing a post that said it was vandalism the owners of the pumps did not want to happen.
Very different argument than franchise contract obligations.
“I spend much of my time negotiating and drafting commercial leases. Much of that time is spent negotiating and drafting what tenants can and can’t do in and to their spaces.”
Contractual obligation is not the argument I was addressing.
My wife likes to put those stickers on steaks in the supermarket.
Our Founding Fathers posted all over the place. That is why the English went after the printing presses.
We all own a printer. Post things often. They are a sign to people they are not alone.
They will be taken down just like the British did, but keep posting.
Learn from our heritage.
There is a BP station here in Nashua. It closed after the Gulf of Mexico spill because everyone stopped going there.
It reopened a couple years ago, then closed again after a few months.
It reopened again about six months ago. I decided to give it a try because they were buying business with $.20/gallon cheaper price. As soon as they went back up to the same or more as the other stations I stopped going there. So did most everyone else. They will probably be gone again by the end of this year.
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