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BP's Pseudo-Gehry Gas Station

It has been noted that BP would like us to forget that the "P" stands for "Petroleum." The LAist brings us evidence that BP might be trying a little too hard: What had once been a decaying, dingy, low-rent gas station and more recently a white-tented behemoth was today unsheathed to reveal a slick, brand […]

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It has been noted that BP would like us to forget that the "P" stands for "Petroleum." The LAist brings us evidence that BP might be trying a little too hard:

What had once been a decaying, dingy, low-rent gas station and more recently a white-tented behemoth was today unsheathed to reveal a slick, brand new, stunningly designed... gas station. But not just any gas station. With its slick metallic surfaces and geometric angles, this is the gas station of the future. A Frank Gehry-inspired silver ogre dominating the corner of Olympic & Robertson.

A little better? Hell yeah.

A lot better? Not really.

All that effort, all that time, all that money and all to glorify our continuing dependence on fossil fuels.

OK, repeat after me: Bilbao is in Spain. Balboa is in Los Angeles. And gasoline is still gasoline, no matter how you try to glam it up. If you want to impress us, why not dish out another $500 million biofuel research grant?

[Source: The LAist]