During my young adult years I was kind-of-a weekend curbside mechanic and as a result I know when I?m getting gouged by a service station especially when it comes to the dreaded annual NYS Automobile Inspection. Such was the case in ?09. So this year in the hope of avoiding a repeat outcome I searched for a highly customer rated service station through the Internet. As a Manhattanite logic dictated that I choose to look for this reputable service station in the land of my youth ? Brooklyn. What I came up with was a place called the, "" Verrazano Service Center? located on 4th Ave. between 91st & 92nd Streets. Upon my arrival I was amused to discover that VSC was a British Petroleum, BP franchise. As it turned out their affiliation worked in my favor. That?s because their business had fallen off dramatically because of some form of misguided boycott on the part of their area customers. Those area customers who choose to boycott this reputable BP service facility will ultimately be hurting themselves and their community as a whole. There is plenty of blame to go around for the events responsible for the Gulf of Mexico tragedy. Before this Brooklyn community took out their anger on this Bay Ridge franchise they should?ve first looked into the activities of those who domestically share responsibility with BP such as the headline propelled yellow media, environmental profiteers like Al Gore and the extremist self-serving politicians that he and his kind influence.
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