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- Quisquis, on 06/30/2009, -8/+49Probably switching their name to "Back to Profitability".
- Nudar, on 07/01/2009, -1/+37The business has always been known as British Petroleum. Beyond Petroleum was just an advertising slogan.
- bunk3rk1ng, on 07/01/2009, -4/+29Um... it stands for British Petroleum.
- bubbashine, on 06/30/2009, -7/+26No, they had to slash their alternative energy budget by 64 percent because of its $200 million greenwashing campaign, and to pay their team of anti-energy-reform lobbyists.
- churchwin88, on 07/01/2009, -0/+16Ahh...thought it stood for Bitches Payup.
- raptorlightning, on 07/01/2009, -5/+18Butchering the Planet.
- Lederhosed, on 06/30/2009, -3/+15They do some good stuff, but probably not enough to justify their image. I've always been fond of the moniker, "Beyond Propaganda."
- Lederhosed, on 07/01/2009, -2/+13My understanding is they actually changed their name from "British Petroleum" to "BP" and then made out like this meant "Beyond Petroleum." But you are right that Beyond Petroleum was not the official name.
- dscan, on 07/01/2009, -6/+15Buried for not knowing it stands for British Petroleum.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -1/+10Companies are in business to make money and so far the profits in alternative energy are not there.
- euroh, on 07/01/2009, -1/+10BIGGER PROFITS LOL
- BillCStickers, on 07/01/2009, -3/+11ahem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP
"British" Petroleum /cough - jemka, on 07/01/2009, -0/+7British Petroleum merged with Amoco (formerly Standard Oil of Indiana) in December 1998,[17] becoming BPAmoco until 2000 when it was renamed BP and adopted the tagline "Beyond Petroleum," which remains in use today. It states that BP was never meant to be an abbreviation of its tagline.
-(wikipedia) - tehWyman, on 08/19/2009, -0/+7Glad I wasn't the only person to know that.
- NecroSexy, on 07/01/2009, -0/+6Bailing Progress
- Kinneas12, on 07/01/2009, -0/+6I never heard it referred to anything but British Petrol. Probably one of those self-applied nicknames that the PR department dreamt up?
- curtisag, on 07/01/2009, -2/+8What do you expect in the middle of the worst recession since the Great Depression? Everybody's cutting back right now.
- Barackalypse, on 07/01/2009, -5/+10So lets see, a profitable corporation that wishes to stay that way is slashing its green investments while at the same time a bankrupt nation is voting to force costly green technologies onto the backs of taxpayers and utility users, while the former gets criticism, the latter gets a free pass.
- GeekNurse, on 07/01/2009, -5/+9Don't know why he is being dugg down. Going Green is a money loser.
- flyinggoatchees, on 07/01/2009, -4/+8I dont know if it has occurred to anyone, but an oil company is an oil company; no matter what they say they are doing to "save the planet". They're extracting an unmistakably gooey gobbley mess of energy created by creatures millions of years ago that we decide to send back into the atmosphere in our age, that we know is gonna do nothing but raise the c02 levels, shifting our atmosphere into some direction that we don't even know if we'll be able to survive in. So if you care or want to do anything to help slow this process then you will stop driving your cars and vans, no matter how good they pretend to be for the earth. It's all a bunch of malarky, the only way to help the planet is to live drastically different lives, which I have a feeling no one is really willing to do. So either shut up about your oil companies and what they are doing wrong, because the answer is everything; or quit your jobs and start farming to keep your lives going.
- taikyokuken, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5Bull Poop.
- boneit, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5More like they've just won access to Iraq's incredibly large oil reserves and won't be interested in "energy" for another 20 years.
- MrSlumberjack, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Beyond Petroleum is just a marketing slogan that BP uses, which tricks people into thinking that's what BP stands for. It is, and always has been British Petroleum.
- kevgallacher, on 07/01/2009, -0/+3Of course they have to invest in alternate energy.
They have to think of the long term business plan.
Oil only makes up the next 50 years of their company.
They have to think what they are going to sell then. - pagit, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5BP = British Petroleum -> Bigger Profits -> Bitch Pimping
- warriorscot, on 07/01/2009, -2/+5I don't believe that BS for a second. Certainly people may have to change their lives in small ways which they are already starting to. But a major change? No! And there is no evidence to say that would work anyway(which it wouldn't if you bothered to run the numbers). The answer like all previous major problems in the past will be conquered using the same tool that elevated us above the rest of the animal kingdom: our minds. New technology is already having an impact and while being more responsible with our resources is something we will have to improve major changes to our lives are neither necessary nor desirable.
- overtoke, on 07/01/2009, -2/+4"British Petroleum merged with Amoco (formerly Standard Oil of Indiana) in December 1998, becoming BPAmoco until 2000 when it was renamed BP and adopted the tagline "Beyond Petroleum," which remains in use today."
- SpiderTeets, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2+1
- Ymeg, on 07/01/2009, -2/+4A business that invests in what is profitable? That craziness is this?
- Lederhosed, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2I posted this piece and I am fully aware that BP's official name is not "Beyond Petroleum." But it is often KNOWN AS "Beyond Petroleum," through its own advertising and through common usage. When I asked what the company "really stands for," I was asking whether that colloquial usage is deserved, and, by extension, what kind of energy BP is really all about. All this becomes clear if you read the actual story.
- inactive, on 07/01/2009, -2/+4Good! Why spend money on trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist? (Unless it ends up saving you money.)
Examples:
- Buying CFL or LED bulbs: good idea
- Taxable carbon credits: bad idea - MrSlumberjack, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2...for now.
- warriorscot, on 07/01/2009, -0/+2Yes but a group of Americans were having hissy fits that so many of their gas stations were not owned by other Americans.
- user500, on 07/01/2009, -1/+3"what does the *company* stand for."
Rapeing your rear at the pump - Atario, on 07/01/2009, -2/+3I didn't realize Digg was filled with so many simpleminded literalists.
Read the question again. "What does the business formerly known as Beyond Petroleum really stand for?". Not what do the letters stand for; what does the *company* stand for. - stickypenguin, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1that's petrol to you
- warriorscot, on 07/01/2009, -2/+3Possibly but considering BP has a huge department for green energy and were in the field a long time before anyone else they have earned the right to cut back a little in hard times. They have also developed a few of the technologies commercially and have either sold them or are putting them into practice.
- jasche, on 07/01/2009, -1/+2I use car sharing (about two times a month) and comute by train. Carry a stack of books or listen to audio books. So its leisure time. The train operators here an Germany and Switzerland offer a flat rate service for the entire country. I am 40+ and never had a car.
Don't conclude from Yourself to the rest of the world. But in part You are right, most people dont know what they want. 'Auto' is one of the first words little kids say besides Mama and Papa. People are imprinted with the desire to own one.
I am looking forward to virtual reality becoming mainstream as cars are nowadays. I remember having read a study that already nowadays the mayority of young adults prefers wanking off before the screen than having it for real. Maybe cardriving will go down the same road - Ferretman, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1Because they can get them....
- Bodhinature, on 07/01/2009, -2/+3If not going green is so profitable why does Big Oil insist on huge tax subsidies for drilling and other expenses? I don't remember BP losing any money on there little green campaign.
- bubbashine, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1molotovcat, now that energy companies are losing the unfair advantage of using the atmosphere as their company's carbon dump renewable energy IS the profitable way forward.
- Scaryclouds, on 07/02/2009, -0/+1/turns head and coughs
- molotovcat, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1Bodhinature, companies operate for profit. If green energy was really the best way to go for profit, they would obviously be doing so.
- pinchduck, on 07/01/2009, -0/+1Computer geeks tend to be very literal people.
- cplusplus, on 07/01/2009, -2/+2You are splitting hairs
- user500, on 07/01/2009, -1/+1The author did know what it stood for, but he was trying to make a point unlike your ramblings.
- SpiderTeets, on 07/01/2009, -4/+4Good, petrol fuels my car.
- rocknog, on 07/01/2009, -2/+1Mind you, I am thoroughly opposed to government regulation, which let's get one thing clear, WON'T even actually do what it's intended. We're not getting any ***** green technology from the government, we're getting costly false promises.
At the same time, though, I do believe that bp isn't thinking long-term here. Whatever, I guess it doesn't matter if they go under now, but you're a ***** moron if you think we keep doing what we're doing for all time. ***** conservatives, however, have blurred the line between "going green" and "government regulation" so that the average American is now convinced the two are inseparable. You just keep force-feeding those lies, and I don't even understand why. Yes, government regulation in this case is bad, but why do you have to frame the debate in such a manner as to make it sound interchangable with going green? - untukdaftar, on 07/01/2009, -2/+1LoL
I like that words
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