• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

BP Exec: Gulf of Mexico 'Relatively Tiny' Compared to 'Very Big Ocean'

MyOwnDrum

MyOwnDrum

Banned
DP Veteran
Joined
Aug 30, 2009
Messages
3,827
Reaction score
1,374
Gender
Undisclosed
Political Leaning
Independent
What a jerk!

FOXNews.com - BP Exec: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Relatively 'Tiny' Compared to 'Very Big Ocean'

The chief executive of BP told a British newspaper that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is "relatively tiny" compared with the "very big ocean."

The chief executive of BP told a British newspaper that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is "relatively tiny" compared with the "very big ocean."

Tony Hayward, in an interview with the Guardian newspaper at the company's Houston crisis center, said:

"The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume," he said.

U.S. officials estimate that at least 5,000 barrels of oil per day are leaking from a pipeline more than 5,000 feet deep that was damaged more than three weeks ago by an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig, which later sunk. Eleven workers died in the disaster.

Hayward told the Guardian that BP would "fix" the disaster, which could become the biggest ecological disaster in U.S. history.

"We will fix it. I guarantee it," he told the newspaper. "The only question is we do not know when."
Click to expand...
 
Translation: the long term damage to the ecosystem has already been done, now all we can do is unsuccessfully try to minimize perceptions with failed PR campaigns.
 
Maybe their Board of Directors needs to tell the execs to shut the hell up and stop giving interviews to the press, if they can't open their mouths without saying something stupid. Hopefully their response to the environmental crisis goes better than their response to their own PR crisis.
 
Why he may have been factually correct, it was a really dumb thing to day. Talk about the epitome of im-politic at the moment. It is about as dumb as the AIT representative in US who pointed out that eating US beef is safer than riding a scooter in Taiwan. Thile factually correct, given the controversy at the time over US beef, really stupid. Any MORE good examples of how people really need to THINK before they say something to the media?
 
The Uncola said:
Why would anyone be surprised at this a$$hole saying something like that? That is big oil's attitude about OUR planet's environment in general, "Screw everything else, we NEED more profit."

He and his entire board of directors should be sitting behind bars awaiting trial for crimes against nature.
Click to expand...

The wierd thing about all of this is that BP had a reasonably good reputation for its work in alternative energy. It was unnoticed by many and it will now be totally ignored in the face of this debacle in the Gulf of Mexico...
 
5,000 barrels is barely accurate.

We could be seeing as high as 50,000 barrels a day.
 
ludahai said:
The wierd thing about all of this is that BP had a reasonably good reputation for its work in alternative energy. It was unnoticed by many and it will now be totally ignored in the face of this debacle in the Gulf of Mexico...
Click to expand...

That they dipped their toe in "alternative energy" somehow mitigates the fact that have DESTROYED millions of people's way of life and CAUSED an environmental disaster of almost unmeasurable proportions?
 
BP is just one oil company among many tycoons out there. The financial damage to them is "relatively tiny" when compared to the entire global oil industry ;)
 
BP, poster child for galactically ignorant and selfish. Comments like that only expose their arrogant attitude that they can do what they want and get away with what they want. Hopefully, those days are gone.
 
:rofl

Oh - so it's ok, now! Since the ocean is just SO HUGE it's ok.
 
The Uncola said:
Sorry if I misinterpreted, but it sure seemed to be what you were saying. Could you expand on it so that it might be clearer?
Click to expand...

I didn't mean to excuse it. I was pointing out that they HAD done some things that actually looked good, but I did not mean to imply that it did anything to even remotely compensate for THIS.
 
ludahai said:
I didn't mean to excuse it. I was pointing out that they HAD done some things that actually looked good, but I did not mean to imply that it did anything to even remotely compensate for THIS.
Click to expand...

Thanks, sorry for my misunderstanding.

:3oops:
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
I'm thinking it will start to rebound soon.
Click to expand...

Could be risky. Damage claims haven't even started rolling in yet and the scope of the disaster is still unknown. I do believe BP stock is still on it's way down but, we shall see.
 
USA-1 said:
Could be risky. Damage claims haven't even started rolling in yet and the scope of the disaster is still unknown. I do believe BP stock is still on it's way down but, we shall see.
Click to expand...

The funny thing about corporate capitalism is that there are caps on damage awards for these environmental disasters. ;)
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
The funny thing about corporate capitalism is that there are caps on damage awards for these environmental disasters. ;)
Click to expand...

.............Democratic Senators Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Bill Nelson of Florida introduced legislation that would raise the cap on damage awards from $75 million to $10 billion. Nelson said he is open to attaching that legislation to the financial regulation overhaul under consideration in the Senate. Nelson said BP requested today’s meeting with the lawmakers................
 
USA-1 said:
.............Democratic Senators Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Bill Nelson of Florida introduced legislation that would raise the cap on damage awards from $75 million to $10 billion. Nelson said he is open to attaching that legislation to the financial regulation overhaul under consideration in the Senate. Nelson said BP requested today’s meeting with the lawmakers................
Click to expand...

Understand that, even then they could pay it and long term, BP did what, when?
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Understand that, even then they could pay it and long term, BP did what, when?
Click to expand...

I understand that but the worst news about BP has not hit the front pages yet. The stock is still on it's way down. IMO.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
If that's the case I may wait but I'd be hard pressed to believe that they are going under forever.
Click to expand...

No, they will survive, but their stock might not reach previous levels for a while.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom