An online movement to boycott BP for its role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is growing at a rate of better than 25,000 names a day.

“I won’t buy their gas any more. I won’t patronize a company that’s destroying our planet,” New Jersey resident Patricia Jarozynski told CNN, one of 118,000 fans of the “Boycott BP” Facebook page as of this writing

via Facebook fans organize to boycott BP – May. 26, 2010.

Why stop with BP? Clearly Chevron could use some of the public’s hatred.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced today the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has levied the largest fine in its history—$87.4 million—against BP for failing to correct safety problems identified after a 2005 explosion that killed 15 workers at its Texas City, Texas, refinery.

via AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | BP Hit with Largest-Ever OSHA Fine of $87 Million.

For all the evil you do to workers, to people and to the environment there will be a reckoning. We will come and take your power from you sooner or later. Now that BP was swatted like a fly on a wall (for once), Chevron must also answer for its reign of terror.

I’m happy to see the Weekly Toll keeping this issue in the spotlight. BP keeps asking for more time even though these accidents happened five years ago.

Think about how the families of Raymundo C. Gonzalez, Jr. and Leonard Maurice Moore, Jr., who were killed back in 2004, must feel about BP asking for more time. And how about the families of the other 15 BP employees killed in an explosion just 6 months later in 2005. What about them? Doesn’t the media believe the family members might have something to say about BP’s request for more time – aside from the five years they have already had to correct the issues that cost 17 people their lives? Can this really be a case of the media not giving a shit about doing the job they are meant to do…. at least in such a manner that the public has a shot at understanding the problem for what it is and not what BP wants them to see.

These guys talk a good game on looking “beyond petroleum” but they have serious issues.

The EPA revealed that BP Products North America will pay nearly $180 million to settle charges that it has failed to comply with a 2001 consent decree under which it was supposed to implement strict controls on benzene and benzene-tainted waste generated by the company’s vast oil refining complex in Texas City, Texas, located south of Houston. Since the 1920s, benzene has been known to cause cancer.

Among BP’s self-proclaimed corporate values is to be “environmentally responsible with the aspiration of ‘no damage to the environment’” and to ensure that “no one is subject to unnecessary risk while working for the group.” Somehow, that message did not seem to make its way to BP’s operation in Texas City, which has a dismal performance record.

They have a long way to go.