What's the deal with all this oil?
Finally!
Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg told Sky News Friday the oil major remains on track to carry out a June 4 plan to set up a new stand-alone unit to handle the Gulf of Mexico oil spill response operation under Bob Dudley, who currently serves as managing director for the company. BP CEO Tony Hayward announced the plan two weeks ago. Svanberg told Sky News that Hayward “is now handing over the operation to Bob Dudley” after leading the critical operation for eight weeks.
What should he do with all this new and richly deserved time? Other than work on his sets for next week’s open mic night at the Laugh Factory of course. [MarketWatch]
Might I suggest a supersoaker fight over at the Svanbergs?
http://gawker.com/5556730/rahm-emanuel-and-joe-biden-had-a-super-soaker-fight-yesterday
@1 Would you please stop with the Gawker (NTTAWWT) advertisements, please? Thanks in advance.
@2, @1 here,
Sorry, you’re right. It looks like Bess got her post on this story in 10 mins sooner than Gawker. I apologize. Bess 1, Gawker 0.
it’s all Bush’s fault
- guy who blamed Bush for ill-timed flatulence at dinner last night
Svanberg: Let me explain to you the kind of man Hayward is. He’s a man who knows that when you put another man’s cock in your mouth, you make a pact. A bond that cannot be broken. He’s a man so dedicated that he will get down on his knees and put that cock right in his mouth.
No, No, No, No, let me ask you a question. When you came pulling into the Gulf to drill for oil, did you notice a sign out in front of my coast that said Dead Pelican Storage? You know WHY you didn’t see that sign? ‘Cause it ain’t there, ’cause storing dead pelicans ain’t my fucking business, that’s why!
@6 Outstanding. If only we could call Mr. Wolf.
Tony Hayward: “I helped with the drilling bloody deep, 60,000 bpd oil rich wells! I helped protect this country from Middle East pressure! I should be rewarded for that. But instead they give it to the small people out there with their oily birds and the lot. You know they lied to me!
Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg: “Is that what this is about? Is that why my chicken dinner is drying out in the oven? Is that why Her Majesty is beating on me like one of Diana’s pet mules? You’re mad because they lied to you? Listen, pal, they lie to everyone. They lie to the fish. But that doesn’t give you any special right to do what you did.”
As CEO of “the person” (per US Supreme Court)BP you certainly deserve your “life” back………a large part of it in prison. Not just you, the entire chain of command at BP and US Gov’t agencies which facilitated the death of the Gulf of Mexico. The callous disregard for safety evidenced by BP’s numerous criminal actions have not been absolved via payment of fines. This latest cost cutting measure in pursuit of profit has destroyed an entire ecosystem already and the true damages are frightening to contemplate.
People like #9 is what the subprime is in trouble.
Handing out flyers for a comedy club across the street from the Port Authority bus terminal is the new killing it?
I just think the guy’s a coward. The reason CEOs get paid what they get paid is to be able to stand up and show leadership and resolve during times of crisis. This guy should be like Patton on the battlefield not like some whimp crying about the pressure he’s under. I’m very dissapointed.
Am I the only person that just doesn’t care?
Hayward was Kouwed??!
Ahhh-ight!
How long before ACORN is announced as the independent third party assigned to disburse payments from the BP emergency fund?
@11
Shut the fuck up Kouwanal_yst
I’m going to miss the small people down at the gulf. Maybe I’ll ship some caviar down for their brunch. I’ve come to really enjoy the small people.
@16 it will be the SEIU, who will quietly outsource most of the actual work to ACORN. Janitors can’t hustle like pimps
I’m a laissez-faire, Austrian economics type of guy and I’m all for capitalism, free markets, making money, decentralizing government but I can’t stand these dopes that don’t take responsbility for their actions. When will there be a BP spill parody of this creep?
Oh well, BP is just a subsidy of the government anyway.