Americans pushing their luck with BP!

Spartacus_Mills

StevieJ wrote: »

And what about all that Napalm and Agent Orange on Vietnam :eek: apparently 300 tonnes of bombs were dropped for every man women or child

Even worse being the blanket bombing of neighbouring Cambodia.
This destabilised Sihanouk and emboldened the Khmer Rouge. The rest was history.

They have alot to answer for, the United States.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Spartacus_Mills wrote: »

They have alot to answer for, the United States.

Twenty-One

StevieJ

Generali wrote: »

PS You might also want to get your niece to help you with spelling and capitalisation.

Looks like she got to you Gen

Sapphire

vaporate wrote: »

I am thinking poor BP. America is the worlds largest polluter so spare me the little green rhetoric with America in the same sentence...

dont forget the atomic bomb.

This time BP is very much in the wrong. Just because the Americans were wrong on other occasions, doesn't excuse BP from the crimes it has committed.

It's always the case that whenever something like this happens, people like you say words to the effect that, 'Yes, but in the past the other party committed such and such an offence blah, blah, blah,' as if that somehow excuses the current misdeeds being discussed.

The BP executives should be booted out, and power should be taken away from the oil companies – just as it should from the bankers.

GeneHunt_2

ILW wrote: »

On a slightly different point.I thought Americans were obsessed with looks.
Watching the BP CEO grilling, I could not help notice that many of the senators must have been some of the most ugly people I have ever seen, especially the Waxman guy. Scary.

:rotfl:

StevieJ

Sapphire wrote: »

This time BP is very much in the wrong. Just because the Americans were wrong on other occasions, doesn't excuse BP from the crimes it has committed.

It's always the case that whenever something like this happens, people like you say words to the effect that, 'Yes, but in the past the other party committed such and such an offence blah, blah, blah,' as if that somehow excuses the current misdeeds being discussed.

The BP executives should be booted out, and power should be taken away from the oil companies – just as it should from the bankers.

Judge, jury and executioner :eek:

lvader

Sapphire wrote: »

This time BP is very much in the wrong. Just because the Americans were wrong on other occasions, doesn't excuse BP from the crimes it has committed.

It's always the case that whenever something like this happens, people like you say words to the effect that, 'Yes, but in the past the other party committed such and such an offence blah, blah, blah,' as if that somehow excuses the current misdeeds being discussed.

The BP executives should be booted out, and power should be taken away from the oil companies – just as it should from the bankers.

Just like it is easy to blame bankers for government policies that allowed the subprime crisis to occur. It is easy to blame BP for US government policies that have allowed this disaster to happen. It is still unclear what BP have done wrong and how they differ from all the other oil companies.

vivatifosi

What's with all the anti-American sentiment?

If BP is at fault - and under the due process of law the US will get to the bottom of this - then they should pay. It's only right that people are compensated for their losses and those responsible pay for the clean up. If an American oil rig failed and polluted the beaches in the UK in the biggest environmental disaster in this country Brits too would be annoyed. It isn't us vs them. Yes there are some nutters on both sides getting exorcised about this but lets get back to the middle sane ground.

POPPYOSCAR

Sapphire wrote: »

This time BP is very much in the wrong. Just because the Americans were wrong on other occasions, doesn't excuse BP from the crimes it has committed.

It's always the case that whenever something like this happens, people like you say words to the effect that, 'Yes, but in the past the other party committed such and such an offence blah, blah, blah,' as if that somehow excuses the current misdeeds being discussed.

The BP executives should be booted out, and power should be taken away from the oil companies – just as it should from the bankers.

Could you please explain to me exactly what crimes BP have committed, I havn't seen anyone being arrested.

You are missing the point here.What a lot of people are saying is that the Americans would not be and do not create this kind of hysteria when the crisis is of their own making(some would say this is of their own making because there are American companies involved, not that you would know due to the continual blame put only on BP). Are you not concerned then about the terrible things some American companies have been responsible for? Of course the environmental damage is terrible ,it is the astounding hypocrisy of the Americans which gets to me.

lvader

vivatifosi wrote: »

What's with all the anti-American sentiment?
. If an American oil rig failed and polluted the beaches in the UK in the biggest environmental disaster in this country Brits too would be annoyed. I

This was an American oil rig, designed, built and run by Americans and operating under a US license. It's only owned by BP and only 65% of that.