BP CEO: But it's such a TINY AMOUNT OF OIL, WHY ARE YOU BEING SO MEAN?

[elbales]

BP boss admits job on the line over Gulf oil spill

Tony Hayward, the beleaguered chief executive of BP, has claimed its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is "relatively tiny" compared with the "very big ocean".

In an bullish interview with the Guardian at BP's crisis centre in Houston, Hayward insisted that the leaked oil and the estimated 400,000 gallons of dispersant that BP has pumped into the sea to try to tackle the slick should be put in context.

"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.

Tony?

Shut up.

No, really. For the love of God, SHUT UP. Moron.

I won't be buying BP gas in the future. In fact, I think I'll write them a love letter to let them know that. I've been mulling it over since the spill; after all, Exxon and Chevron are worse in a lot of ways. (Valdez, anyone? How about that wonderful East Bay air?) But the way that BP is actively trying to weasel out of responsibility, and the way that they and Transocean are playing the blame game, has pretty much put it over the line.
 

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[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Reluctantly, because there was no public transportation we bought a car when we moved to New Orleans.

When we moved back to NYC we sold the car.

Now that we're moving to Maryland for the next academic year we're determined not to buy a car, but use the bus to get back to NYC, and so on so forth -- not buy a car, and thus not use any gas at all.

Alas though, petroleum is the commodity that is in everything that is plastic, for instance, and everything is plastic. You can't get plastic out of your personal ecosystem, unless you go off the grid 100%, and even then it will be difficult.

To survive, we, meaning us, our household, can't go off the grid.

Love, C.