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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Well, I guess they feel like they’re ‘doing something’.
Doesn’t cost them much, and they get to feel superior - not much different from ‘liberals’ who play around like that.
“I don’t view it as vandalizing because it does no permanent damage on or interfere with the function of the gas pumps.”
So if I get mad at Joe Biden and spray paint, Lets Go Branden on your house, that is OK because there is no permanent damage? Nothing a little paint can’t fix.
If it costs the owner money to clean or repair, it is vandalism.
I find it interesting that these “conservatives” are attacking private businesses over their grievances with the government.
That is exactly what BLM & Antifa did back in 2020.
Only then it was roundly condemned here. Now it seems to be cheered. I guess it depends on whose ox is gored. Situational Ethics.
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