The Dead Zone (or, BP and the Oil Well That Keeps on Giving)

[seireikhaan]

Where to start on this one...

A TV is a television, I give you that one. Well done you! I applaud your effort.

However, BP is not a short form of British Petroleum, although it was up until the year 2000.

BP became very much international, currently only 40% of shareholders are British.

As they changed the name from British Petroleum to BP they also coined a new corporate slogan, "Beyond Petroleum". Short form of that would be BP.

So, so much for your endearing claim.

Google search: British Petroleum. First hit? www.bp.com
Yahoo search? www.bp.com/gulfofmexicoresponse
Bing? www.bp.com

British Petroleum = BP. Also, you seem to have this odd fixation with the national makeup of the company. How exactly is that relevant to the oil spill? Do you actually think people would be less upset if it was an American based company who screwed up? Or have you been sleeping through the financial crisis? Forget about Enron? Or, for a more pertinent example, Exxon?

As to the second part of your post, the one in bold - one might argue that legislation exist to put a leash on company's such as BP, you know, to keep them from (as a strictly theoretical example, of course) cause huge amounts of damage.

So, legislation should be there to prevent a company from doing damage? So you're next leap in logic is that it is not the company's fault for doing damage?

Thank you for your time though, it is refreshing to hear from someone else than my intellectual friends.

Clearly.