Gas Station owner shot, in custody of police

  • November 16, 2007 6:12 pm

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An argument over gas prices has left one gas station owner dead and another in the custody of police. Police have said that the shooting happened around 10:30 A.M. this morning on the corner of Springwells and Fort street in southwest Detroit. Police said the owner of the BP Station confronted the owner of the Marathon Station about lowering his price to $2.93 gallon, three cents less than the BP station. The confrontation then escalated into a physical fight with employees from both stations involved. One man was hit with a baseball bat

Relatives identified the BP owner as Jawad Bazzi, 45, who was pronounced dead at an area hospital. Police said the two men began a fistfight, which escalated. The Marathon owner, a man identified only as being in his 50s, drew a handgun and fired three to four shots, fatally striking the BP owner at least once in the head.

This is just pointless. Why do we need all this useless violence and especially over something as trivial as gas prices. Speaking on violence and intolerance, today is also national tolerance day. Let’s be a little more tolerant in our ever violent world and not shoot people needlessly. Just thinking what could have happened had the gun ignited the gas pumps, then we would have a lot more than one dead person. The person who fired the shot should be put in jail for a very long time and charged with attempted murder for every person at the gas station at the time of this argument.

Thanks to The Populist Blog for giving me a heads up.


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BP Solar Decathlon

  • October 10, 2007 3:21 pm

For everyone who did not know, the BP Solar Decathlon is coming up starting tomorrow! BP a.k.a. British Petroleum is invested in trying to find alternative energies that will help us solve our energy problems of tomorrow today. The United States Department of Energy is also in on the Solar Decathlon. Now you might be wondering what the Solar Decathlon is, so I will tell you! The Solar Decathlon is held every other year and challenges teams from 20 different universities around the globe to build and operate livable, energy-efficient, and completely solar-powered houses. BP is sponsoring the event, as I said before, as part of their commitment to find cleaner more healthy energy sources.

They are one of the main corporate sponsors, and the only energy company sponsor, of the 2007 Solar Decathlon and have been involved since the first competition in 2002. As part of their further commitment I found a few things BP will be doing to help build alternative energy, BP produces more than 200 MW of solar technology every year. Did you know that an area 200 miles square covered with solar panels could provide all the electricity the world needs? Also, BP’s jointly-owned Nerefco wind farm generates enough zero-carbon energy to power 13,000 average homes. Wind can potentially provide around a 10th of the world’s power. That would cut down dioxide emissions by a billion tons a year. Just think, this would make the world such a better place! Oh, and don’t forget that you could be making thousands of new jobs with all of this new energy coming from BP!