Unless you have been living under a rock, you’ve noticed that being “green” has become the chic thing in our society.    Everyone wants to be green, as do companies; many of which have spent millions of dollars on ad campaigns touting their “greeness”.  Of the plethora of products and companies alike that are flat out misleading people about their earthiness, one company really deserves to be mentioned.  That is BP, or as they now like to be called “Beyond Petroleum”.  Among all of the oil companies, BP has, in my opinion, had the strongest ad campaign.  I even for a few minutes believed they were actually changing as a result of their brilliant ads. However, hidden among their solar, wind, and other green initiatives, hides a dark little secret.  BP recently reversed their stance on a “self imposed ban” on acquiring crude from tar sands in Canada.  Why is this a big deal?  For those that aren’t really familiar, instead of sticking a drill/tube in the ground and getting oil from below the surface of the earth while scarring a relatively small area(as in the Middle East), getting oil from tar sands requires the crude is strip mined out of the earth at massive excavation sites which quite literally destroy millions of acres of forest land in Canada.  I suppose it is not such a surprise that an oil company would do something like this.  Take a stand, refrain from buying gas at B.P.