BP CEO: Gulf Coast Oil Spill Is Relatively 'Tiny' Compared To 'Very Big Ocean'

[mod mom]

BP CEO: Gulf Coast Oil Spill Is Relatively 'Tiny' Compared To 'Very Big Ocean'
Ben Frumin | May 14, 2010, 11:36AM

BP CEO Tony Hayward isn't just off message -- he's way off message.

In an interview with the Guardian, Hayward declared that the giant oil spill in the gulf (still gushing thousands of gallons of oil a day into the sea) and the hundreds of thousands of gallons of "dispersant" BP has pumped into the water to combat the slick are "tiny" compared to the "very big ocean."

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.
Tough timing. Just this morning, there were multiple reports suggesting that scientists now believe the amount of oil gushing into the gulf is higher than originally estimated.

"We will fix it," Hayward told the Guardian. "I guarantee it. The only question is we do not know when."

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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/bp_ce...

I don't usually advocate boiling in oil as punishment, but....


really...The government needs to freeze all of BP's Licenses to operate and assets until this EPIC DISASTER is settled. The same w Transocean & Halliburton!

[Oregone]

1. And now, your moment of Zen

[Cetacea]

2. Itty bitty dwop in a wheely big thing of water

[spanone]

3. and florida is a miniscule tourist 'facility'

[no_hypocrisy]

4. It's all relative. 3,500 square miles as of May 2 is not a big deal.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_amer...


"We will fix it," Hayward told the Guardian.

[mod mom]

9. link title: May 2- Oil spill disaster is now 'out of control' so now what is it after

realizing they have been grossly under estimating the extent of barrels/day?

May 2, 2010
Oil spill disaster is now 'out of control'

[polichick]

5. What a COLOSSAL ASSHOLE!

[mod mom]

6. NPR expert says 70,000 barrels/day not 5,000 barrel!:

May 14, 2010
The amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico may be at least 10 times the size of official estimates, according to an exclusive analysis conducted for NPR.

At NPR's request, experts examined video that BP released Wednesday. Their findings suggest the BP spill is already far larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska, which spilled at least 250,000 barrels of oil.


BP has said repeatedly that there is no reliable way to measure the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by looking at the oil gushing out of the pipe. But scientists say there are actually many proven techniques for doing just that.

Steven Wereley, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, analyzed videotape of the seafloor gusher using a technique called particle image velocimetry.

A computer program simply tracks particles and calculates how fast they are moving. Wereley put the BP video of the gusher into his computer. He made a few simple calculations and came up with an astonishing value for the rate of the oil spill: 70,000 barrels a day — much higher than the official estimate of 5,000 barrels a day.

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12...

[Cetacea]

15. Other scientists are agreeing with this now. nt

[midnight]

7. K&R so that many can see the kind of stupidity these Ceo are getting away with.

[daggahead]

8. I seriously doubt he'd like to tool around in his yacht in the oil-saturated waters. n/t

[Journeyman]

10. This is the same argument I heard from a glue-sniffing huffer once . . .

"Uh, man, it only destroys like some small percent of the brain, and we use less than 10% of our minds as it is, so -- I don't see that I got no problem."


This type of irresponsible behavior will cease only when we begin to truly punish these people. Get 'em out of the board rooms and into the jail cells for life and their replacements will think twice about letting hubris rule their criminal enterprises.

[gratuitous]

11. It's only a few drops of arsenic in your gin and tonic, Tony

Teeny tiny, really.

[hunter]

12. BP CEO Tony Hayward is tiny.

And toxic.

We should probably put him away in a concrete cell.

[mod mom]

14. He is exposed as all the more evil with this stupid comment.

[Birthmark]

13. A single murder is tiny relative to the human population...

...of Earth. We still prosecute the motherfucker that did it.

[pansypoo53219]

16. obama needs to invite him to the oval office.

kick everybody out, and then punch that motherfucker in the mouth.

[undeterred]

17. I'll bet he pees in his own bathwater.

[mod mom]

20. funny, but my guess is only in that of others.

[one_voice]

18. Kick..

The assholes should be kept front and center.

[Downtown Hound]

19. And the Earth is relatively tiny in relation to the cosmos

So what the hell, let's get rid of it too.

[blindpig]

21. Freeze hell, expropriate.

The vilest sorts of corporal punishments come to mind but first the worst sort of pain for his ilk, expropriate.

Then, the other.

[jberryhill]

22. Hey Tony... I have a very very small amount of ricin for you to check out /nt

[Feron]

23. Hey asshole...

The oil's still gushing out of your pipe. And oil can still be in the water column even if it isn't visible at the surface.

Not to mention that if your oil doesn't kill off the marine life, your toxic dispersant will finish the job.

Go fuck yourself with a rusty chainsaw. At least the Japanese have the good sense to commit suicide if they fucked up this badly.

But yes, BP, Transocean, Halliburton, and Cameron International are all partners in this current catastrophe.