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Wisconsin gas station owner on $400 BP fine: 'Truth hurts, doesn't it?
Southern Wisconsin Times ^ | April 27,2022 | By Art Benavidez

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters
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To: Hojczyk

Where can I get those stickers?


81 posted on 04/28/2022 6:28:00 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Charles Martel
Yep.

If application of these removable stickers constitutes vandalism, then the weather continually "vandalizes" BP's equipment (dust, mud, sludge, poop, etc.) and must also be fined.

82 posted on 04/28/2022 6:29:17 AM PDT by caprock (from the flats of SE New Mexico)
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To: simpson96

I have a stack of these in each of my vehicles, and I use them too.


83 posted on 04/28/2022 7:23:35 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: Jamestown1630

Please, grow a pair. This has nothing to do with vandalism, look around at all the leftist messages that never get removed. This freaking out over a “sticker”is a result of the leftist getting a taste of their own medicine. See Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals #5.


84 posted on 04/28/2022 7:28:36 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: gitmo

LOL - that took me a second.


85 posted on 04/28/2022 7:29:04 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: Tupelo

I bet you’re a Pierre DeFlecto supporter too. Vandalism…please. If anything it’s one of the mildest forms of protest.


86 posted on 04/28/2022 7:31:39 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: Tupelo

“I am sure those of you with situational ethics can defend putting the stickers up. But you will never get me to agree with it.”

One side fights with every means at their disposal.

The other side carefully plays by the rules of the game.

Who wins?

If you like losing, keep obeying the rules!


87 posted on 04/28/2022 7:32:13 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Hojczyk

BP must be really dense. Pointing the blame where it belongs (Bidet) shifts the blame away from them and their outlets.


88 posted on 04/28/2022 11:29:04 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: bigfootbob

I think the person fined $400 might disagree with you.

And I don’t find Alinsky anyone to admire or emulate.


89 posted on 04/28/2022 11:39:40 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: cgbg

“If you like losing, keep obeying the rules!”

Yep, I obey the rules and I do not destroy other peoples property.
You sound exactly like a BLM member.
Way to go.


90 posted on 04/28/2022 1:19:02 PM PDT by Tupelo (Don't underestimate The Republican Party's ability to f*ck things up)
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To: Hojczyk

I filled up today for 20 bucks!

(of course that was the lawn tractor....)


91 posted on 04/28/2022 4:04:52 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: bimboeruption

Didn’t BP pollute the Gulf? Does the stickers hurt?


92 posted on 04/28/2022 4:11:01 PM PDT by keving (We the government )
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To: Tupelo

When the guards start ordering you to get on the concentration camp train, make sure to stand in line properly—wouldn’t want you to break any rules.


93 posted on 04/28/2022 9:14:14 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Jamestown1630

You missed the point. It was illegal to throw tea into the Boston Harbor too.

I for one, am tired of the leftards advances against Liberty. Nobody admires Alinsky other than leftists, however the “rules” he created have been the playbook used to defeat Liberty ever since.

It’s not admiration to learn the techniques to use on them. The rules work on libtards as well as they do on conservatives. Check out this new publication that teaches how to use the rules against the enemies of Freedom and Liberty.

https://rulesforantiradicals.com/order-the-book/ols/products/rules-for-anti-radicals. (Buy the book from the provided link and the author/publisher will donate $7.00 to a grassroots 2A group fighting the good fight in North Carolina.)

As far as a 400 dollar fine…tough. How much is the bidenflation costing average Americans? Wide open Southern Border, $5.00+ gallon of fuel and on and on…

Your post makes me sad. You sound like a battered wife rather than a colonist era hero your nom de plum purports.


94 posted on 04/29/2022 6:04:12 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: bigfootbob

The person who manages the gas station is not ‘oppressing’ you, but is the one who has to deal with this juvenile ‘activism’.


95 posted on 04/29/2022 9:08:21 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Love your attitude…not. Call it what you desire, but like Rush used to say, “sometimes you have to be absurd to illustrate the absurdity!”

This may be too lowbrow of citizen disobedience for your GOPe sensibilities. Juvenile activism is much better than no activism. Troll.


96 posted on 04/29/2022 7:41:22 PM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: mabarker1

Nope. Putting a sticker on is reversible and thus not destructive of private property. Etching or engraving is, and I won’t do it.


97 posted on 05/01/2022 6:18:05 PM PDT by RonF
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To: Tupelo

I don’t view it as vandalizing because it does no permanent damage on or interfere with the function of the gas pumps. I confess to not knowing the actual legal definition of vandalizing, however.


98 posted on 05/01/2022 6:20:12 PM PDT by RonF
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To: Jamestown1630

Re: 37 - The “conservatives” and “Republicans” who put those stickers on private property are nothing but trash masquerading as conservatives and Republicans. They don’t respect private property rights and will twist into a pretzel defending what they did.


99 posted on 05/01/2022 6:24:18 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Jamestown1630

Re: 94 - See what I mean? Invoking the Boston Tea Party and inflation to defend not respecting private property rights.

These threads are full of such garbage.


100 posted on 05/01/2022 6:27:45 PM PDT by Fury
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