Well, it appears that enough people bitched about this (including the mayor of Chicago) to cause BP to rethink its plan to expand its refinery in Indiana. They’re still going to expand it but now they’re saying it won’t increase the volumes of mercury and ammonia that they dump into the lake.

Chicago Tribune Story

So I’ll reduce my indefinite boycott to a 6 month boycott. In other words the earliest I’ll be buying anything from a BP station is February ‘08.