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by **bsharpish** » Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:27 am

Yes its an environmental disaster, but, I sense a certain amount of hypocrisy and finger pointing from the american oil industry and political establishment here.

1. The defective well head which blew was the responsibilty of Haliburton who were supposed to cement around the well head to prevent an explosion.

2. Trans -oceanic was the company who actually owned and operated the rig and equipment including the Faulty blow out protector.

3. BP were leasing the rig only

Now everyone is expecting BP to pay and even Obama is jumping on the bandwagon in order to appear as a "Tough Guy" against big business- nothing to do with upcoming elections and his flagging approval ratings.

Meanwhile Exxon et al happily piss oil all over Nigeria - no one gives a shit.
America says little and does less about the Israeli " situation".

Just watch US media\news outlets and you will see the spill coverage dwarf's other issues with BP being made the scapegoat.

To use an easy analogy -

Mechanic A fits brake pads to a hire car
Hire company B rents you the car with a driver who knows you have defective hand brake.
The brakes fail , the handbrake fails and you crash into a shopfront.

Everybody blames you the passenger as you are quite wealthy. :roll:

by **Gasman** » Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:31 am

Well it has given Obama a really good excuse to cancel visits to countries not 'sympathetic' to Israel. He is far too busy dealing with the Oil disaster.

by **rotate** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:50 pm

bsharpish wrote:To use an easy analogy -

Mechanic A fits brake pads to a hire car
Hire company B rents you the car with a driver who knows you have defective hand brake.
The brakes fail , the handbrake fails and you crash into a shopfront.

Everybody blames you the passenger as you are quite wealthy.

Sounds just like the aviation industry :shock:

On the plus side the 15000 Union Carbide Bhopal victims and those who are still suffering and the yet unborn who will suffer genetic mutation have finally found justice. Seven former Indian Union Carbide employees have been found guilty after only 25 years and have received the legal maximum sentence of 02 years. Not much coming from the White House on that subject.

by **Oracle** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:28 am

Well, the driver is usually insured because wealthy or not, if he was the direct cause, he gets the blame.

So no more excuses.

BP has to stop-up, clean-up and pay-up!

Are you a shareholder by any chance bsharpish?

by **bsharpish** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:20 pm

Oracle wrote:Well, the driver is usually insured because wealthy or not, if he was the direct cause, he gets the blame.

So no more excuses.

BP has to stop-up, clean-up and pay-up!

Are you a shareholder by any chance bsharpish?

errr ........ Nope