Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
Very easy to answer.

BP is known as BP. And yes indeed, they used to be named British Petroleum, but no more. BP is nowadays very "multinational", and I do believe it is more US controlled (don't have exact figures at hand, so might be wrong, anyone?).

However, by using the phrase British Petroleum instead of BP he tried to shift the burden of guilt over to jolly good old England. A jab in the nuts for the commonwealth.

Basically, cheap rhetorics to blame-shift - "Don't look at me, they did it!"

The sad thing is that many (if not most?) Americans will fall into such cheap traps, and disregard questions such as how could WE have let this happen in the first place. Please do bear in mind exactly where this happened and under what legislation, to try to blame-shift Britain seems feeble, to say the least.
What's a TV? Its a television. What's a PC? Its a personal computer. What's a BP? Why, sir, its British Petroleum. Everyone knows this, its not a secret. Regardless of what they are "officially" called, BP still stands for British Petroleum. They are one and the same, and anyone trying to look into more into the phrasing is doing so with an agenda at heart. Tell me, have you seen anyone blame the commonwealth for the spill? Any? And yes, I believe this is at the fault of BP. Their property, not the US Gov't. Blaming legislation for the what was a failure by the company is a cheap cop-out.