Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

If I understand this correctly Coup, you're attempting to blame the average consumer for BP's gross negligence? I'm not getting how you arrived at that. Consumers buy what they are told to buy. GM wants more profit, so they build the Hummer and blast the public with ads to buy it. Public does as they are instructed to do in order to keep with current standards (in the case of Hummer, that standard was set by GM and the creation of the Hummer).

Maybe I'm wrong and this isn't your intention, but I'm going to have to guess that it is because of the pics of suburbs and parking lots and references to shopping. By this reasoning, do we also blame the public for slave labor in China? Suicides at the iPhone factories? Toyota's negligence? etc?

As a consuming member of the public, I take offense to being blamed for BP's leak because I bought what was being pushed on me 24/7. (which is not just cars, but everything. Including the food YOU eat.)

Just sayin'.