Hating The B In BP?

That would be to miss the point. The company still calling itself British Petroleum is in fact an only-too-classic case of privatisation and globalisation in action. Making BP hardly, if at all, B anymore. That is the problem. By all means, let Middle America give voice to its long-latent hatred of all that. It would cause all the right dominoes to start to fall. All over the West. And all over the world.