STUPIDEST things said about the BP oil spill

[G_j]

http://www.grist.org/article/2010-05-20-the-three-stupidest-things-said-about-the-bp-oil-spill/


The three stupidest things said about the BP oil spill
by Ashley Braun

21 May 2010 8:42 AM


Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig went down in the Gulf last month, there have been two unstoppable gushes: one from the ocean floor and the other from the mouth of BP's top executive, Tony Hayward. Here are three of his worst:

1. "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."
-- Tony Hayward, May 13, 2010

2. "I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest."
-- Hayward, May 18, 2010

3. "Do I feel that anything I've done I would have done differently? Not at all."
-- Hayward, May 18, 2010, after previously admitting in an interview published May 14, "We made a few little mistakes early on."

Hayward easily holds the top three gaffes about the gusher, but as a bonus, here are four more oiy-ly instances that have slipped into the running.

4. "I don't honestly think it opens up a whole new series of questions, because, you know, in all honesty I doubt this is the first accident that has happened and I doubt it will be the last."
-- Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, April 23, 2010, inspiring all kinds of confidence in the safety of offshore drilling three days after the spill

5. "The reality is we will be depending on oil and gas as we transition to a new energy future. You are not going to turn off the lights of this country or the economy by shutting it all down."
-- Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, on May 18, 2010, in response to Senator Bernie Sanders' question about reinstating the moratorium on offshore drilling
NOTE: Petroleum accounted for less than one percent of electricity generation in the U.S. last year. Oil does not keep the lights on.

6. "We need the increased production. The president still continues to believe the great majority of that can be done safely, securely and without any harm to the environment."
-- Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, April 23, 2010


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[stray cat]

1. add - if people cared they would stop the oil flow

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. Everyone has their price...

Tony Hayward's Compensation for 2009, according to Forbes:

Salary £1,045,000.00
Bonus £2,090,000.00
Restricted stock awards £0.00
All other compensation £23,000.00
Option awards $ £0.00
Non-equity incentive plan compensation £0.00
Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings £0.00
Total Compensation £3,158,000.00

http://people.forbes.com/profile/a-b-tony-hayward/13022

[RKP5637]

Yep, big money talks and controls/buys power, the rest of us just get to talk... n/t

[BeFree]

3. Yep

What these statements really are saying is this:

We will do to the earth whatever we please and you will like it because you are addicted to the stuff we sell you.

[liberal N proud]

4. These people only see one thing

&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fjameswoodward.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F14%2Fgreed%2F

And they want the game to end while they have the most stuff

[Cant trust em]

5. On item #4, that quote was from pretty early on.

No one really knew how bad this was going to be at that point.

It's pretty shocking to see how recent the Hayward quotes are.

[G_j]

8. maybe not "a whole new series of questions" at that point

but, they didn't ask the questions that needed to be asked before proposing new drilling, that is clear.

[Individualist]

10. "No one really knew how bad this was going to be at that point."

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center..."
Condoleeza Rice

[jus_the_facts]

12. THEY KNEW HOW BAD IT WOULD BE: BP Impact Study 2009 : 6.8 MILLION GALLONS EACH DAY

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/bp_chairman_says_dome_to_be_de.html

SNIP: In an exploration plan and environmental impact analysis filed with the federal government in February 2009, BP said it had the capability to handle a "worst-case scenario" at the site, which the document described as a leak of 162,000 barrels per day from an uncontrolled blowout -- 6.8 million gallons each day.

[barbtries]

6. one of the quotes that has pissed me off today

has really evolved over at CNN. "Meanwhile, a BP official says a gusher of oil pouring from its damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico could be shut off as early as next week."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/21/gulf.oil.spill/index.html?hpt=Sbin

earlier this morning, the bolded part was the headline. to use the word "early" in connection with this unfathomably huge catastrophe i found really insulting.

[RKP5637]

9. Yep, I thought the same too when I saw it early this AM... n/t

[G_j]

16. a joke that's not funny

wait, this person isn't a comedian.
:shrug:

[graywarrior]

7. The Gulf is an ocean?

[jus_the_facts]

11. Yes, it is part of the Atlantic....

:hi:

[graywarrior]

14. I thought it was a Gulf!

It sure doesn't smell like an ocean.

[marions ghost]

13. Heeere's Tony....

Does this individual deserve to make 3+ million a year?--

http://bp.concerts.com/gom/haywardptc051310.htm

check out how he says, "spill," I mean, "leak" ....:puke:

Monty Python?

[blindpig]

15. Capitalism is psychopathic

It rewards best those who most unambiguously advance it's agenda, profits for the owner class