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The 10 worst BP gaffes in Gulf oil spill.

Via Yahoo:

1. Who’s in charge? On Friday, BP board Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg presented the news that many Americans had long been waiting for. Hayward was being shunted out of his lead role in the Gulf oil spill crisis, to be replaced by BP Managing Director Bob Dudley . On Saturday, BP media relations personnel said the chairman of the board was wrong. They said Mr. Svanberg was suggesting that BP was merely beginning a long-planned and gradual transition of authority to Mr. Dudley “over a period of time.”

2. The ‘small people’ It was not the first time Svanberg misspoke. After meeting with President Obama, Svanberg said he shared Mr. Obama’s compassion for the “small people” in the Gulf. Needless to say, the comment did not go over well. Spoken by a man who owns a yacht in Thailand, the phrase “small people” smelled of rank class condescension. Swedes, however, note that the word “småfolket” in Svanberg’s native Swedish has a positive connotation with undertones of egalitarianism.

3. ‘I want my life back’ Six weeks after the Deepwater Horizon blowout, Hayward uttered these words: “We’re sorry for the massive disruption it’s caused their lives. There’s no one who wants this over more than I do. I’d like my life back.” To those shrimpers and fishermen who have essentially lost an entire year’s wages – not to mention the families of the 11 men killed in the blowout – this seemed an inordinately insensitive comment.

4. ‘Very, very modest’ impact On May 18 – a month after the blowout – Hayward told the BBC: “I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.” Four days earlier, he told the British newspaper, the Guardian: “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.”

5. ‘A trickle’ On June 8, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said that the spill “should be down to a relative trickle by Monday or Tuesday.” According to the best scientific estimates, between 10,000 and 35,000 barrels of oil (420,000 to 1.5 million gallons) are still leaking into the Gulf daily.

6. 5,000 barrels a day. Part of the reason for the continued leak is that BP low-balled the flow rate from the well and then refused to try to amend it. For a short time after the blowout, BP estimated that the well beneath the Deepwater Horizon was spewing 1,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf. That was swiftly changed to 5,000 barrels daily. Last week, scientists suggested that the real number could be as much as 60,000 barrels a day and no less than 35,000.

7. ‘Top kill’: 70 percent chance. The underestimation of the flow rate mirrors the repeated overestimation by BP of its own capabilities. Hayward said that the failed “top kill” procedure, which would have stopped the oil, had a 60 to 70 percent chance of working. It failed.

8. ‘We have turned the corner.’ Earlier, on May 17, BP stuck a siphon into the ruined riser pipe – collecting 1,000 barrels a day – leading Hayward to say: “I do feel that we have, for the first time, turned the corner in this challenge.” That siphoning effort was later abandoned.

9. What spill? When BP share prices recently plummeted, BP intended to convey the idea that it could handle the costs of the Gulf oil spill. Its statement, however, was obtuse to the point of absurdity: “The company is not aware of any reason which justifies this share price movement.”

10. Waste of money? Six weeks after the spill began, BP started a $50 million TV ad campaign, promising to restore the Gulf. Obama said the money would have been better spent on relief efforts and damage claims.

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New Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds Trailer

peterocca:

Dante’s Smirk = Now Caring.

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rishtastic:

Andrew, you are NOT THE FATHER!

1 year ago

Watching Role Models this movie goes hard

just saying

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miscreantmarcus:

anti-hetero:

jamokablamo:

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I’m a beast when it comes to Gambit and Captain America…

Cable »»»»»»»»»»»

Captain America, Cyclops, Doom.

1 year ago

Words are like bullets: when well aimed, they have a pretty hard effect.

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1 year ago

So What does everyone think of the world cup so far? Which Country will win?

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What is a hoe? : I stand corrected

I was just informed that:

a HOE is actually a female that gets paid to have sex…she doesn’t have sex for free its just a short term for prostitute….now a bitch that fucks any and everybody for free is a SLUT….

buy hoe mugs, tshirts and magnets A person(usually, but not always female)who is mastered by superficial and/or sleazy things lacking in character and genuine ways, often: scandalous, conniving, weak minded and very promiscuous.

and a garden tool (atleast i got 1 of those right lol -_-)

1 year ago

“t happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”

xmyymai:

Nicholas Sparks.

1 year ago

what is a hoe

So someone just asked me what is a hoe “A hoe is a derogatory word to describe a person that is emotionally detached from the act of having sex and only interested in greater sexual gratification or having sex for money, or a woman who sleeps with a number of men in such a close time period that if she where to become pregnant she could not determine who the father is (also known as a community milkshaking) unless she had a paternity test or a doctor tell her how many days ago the child was conceived or a person who has low self esteem and sleeps with many people in a short time period without requiring exclusivity from any one person, in order to feel validated.” or a “garden tool” best definition i could find