BP CEO Tony Hayward: 'I'd Like My Life Back'

[jefferson_dem]

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BP CEO Tony Hayward: ‘I’d Like My Life Back’

The millionaire CEO of foreign oil giant BP, Tony Hayward, is upset at the inconvenience caused to him by his company’s devastation of the Gulf of Mexico. BP’s offshore drilling explosion claimed 11 lives on April 20, and has since spewed 20 to 100 million gallons of oil into the Gulf. At least 491 birds, 227 turtles and 27 mammals, including dolphins, have been found dead. On Sunday, immediately after apologizing, Hayward then complained about the effect of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on himself, saying “I would like my life back“:

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 would like my life back.

Hayward, who pulled in $4.5 million last year, has a record of insensitive comments about the greatest environmental disaster in the United States:

“What the hell did we do to deserve this?”

“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.”

“I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest.”

There are no indications that the Obama administration intends to remove Hayward or his company from running the cleanup effort, however. “I trust Tony Hayward,” Admiral Thad Allen, the top federal official overseeing the Gulf disaster, told CNN last week.

Hard as it may be for Hayward to believe, the residents of the Louisiana coast may want their nightmare to end even more than BP. “I was just sitting here thinking our way of life is over. It’s the end, the apocalypse,” fisherman Tom Young of Plaquemines Parish told reporters today. (HT Eschaton

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/31/hayward-wants-life-back/

[LakeSamish706]

1. Aw shit Tony, were so sorry that you have been inconvenienced...

Whatever can we do to make that up to you. My hope is that the handcuffs won't be to tight when they finally get clamped on your wrists.

[watajob]

2. What a piece of ...

SHIT!!! Rapacious swine!

[tabatha]

3. Sorry buster, if you destroy others' lives, you don't have the right

to your previous, pampered existence.

[ooglymoogly]

4. Awww...you poor little brainless git.

Give us our clean oceans back and you can have your stingy, selfish, creepy life back. What is it? The servants in one of your "cottages" have lost any modicum of respect for you, just like the rest of us. Destroying our oceans is a grave sin to this planet, on any gods calendar. Crawl into a corner and let honest folks clean up your brainless toddlers mess. How dare you take such a dangerous risk with this planet and all our lives just to save a few bucks.

[elzenmahn]

5. Hey Tony....

Eleven rig employees would like their lives back. Their families would like their lives back, too.

The fishermen and shrimpers would like their lives and livelihoods back, as well.

So would those who work in the tourism industry in those parts.

Get your head out of Ayn Rand's STINKING, DEAD ASS, Tony!

[herbm]

6. He shouldn't get his life back, but he should get life at hard labor.

[felinetta]

7. Here are more Tony Hayward lying quotes

Greg Palast from May 5 2010

BP's CEO Tony Hayward reportedly asked, "What the hell
did we do to deserve this?


May 19 2010

Dr Tony Hayward said: "I think the environmental impact
of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.
"It is impossible to say and we will mount, as part of
the aftermath, a very detailed environmental assessment but
everything we can see at the moment suggests that the overall
environmental impact will be very, very modest."

May 23 2010

In an email to staff late Friday, Tony Hayward said,
"Like all of you, and the outside world, I have shared a
huge sense of frustration that we have not yet been able to
stop the leak" that started a month ago when a rig leased
by BP exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico.

May 30 2010

"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
would like my life back."


May 31 2010

When asked about this clear pattern of illnesses of workers
who come in contact BP’s oil and chemical dispersants, BP CEO
Tony Hayward callously  dismissed the health problems as “food
poisoning.”
“I’m sure they were genuinely ill, but whether it was anything
to do with dispersants and oil, whether it was food poisoning
or some other reason for them being ill,” said Hayward.
“You know, food poisoning is clearly a  big issue when you
have a concentration of this number of people in temporary
camps, temporary accommodation, it’s something we have to be
very, very mindful of, continued Hayward. “It’s one of the big
issues of keeping the army operating. You know, armies march
on their stomachs.”