While I find that BP may indeed have engaged in some rather questionable practices based on a history of criminal activity in the Alaska pipeline spill and the refinery explosion, and the words of some of the survivors of the current Deepwater Horizon incident, I think we all share in the blame for this. The following has an interesting slant on the issue, much of which I agree with (although it should include the fact that our own regulators in the MMS were literally "in bed" with oil industry lobbyists... which are known by a different name in Nevada).
BP Needs to Tell Whining Americans to Take a Hike: Matthew Lynn - BusinessWeek
BP CEO Tony Hayward certainly gave his company a self-inflicted black eye with his rather insensitive pronouncements in the initial days after this spill.
BP Needs to Tell Whining Americans to Take a Hike: Matthew Lynn - BusinessWeek
BP CEO Tony Hayward certainly gave his company a self-inflicted black eye with his rather insensitive pronouncements in the initial days after this spill.