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I know, Arnold, I know. But this is our last hope. You HAVE to go back to the past and prevent the Founder of British Petroleum from ever being born. His name was William Knox. This is a picture of his mother.
(Barack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger)
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Why do people blame BP for this? This could’ve happend everywhere! We’re the ones allowing the oil rigs in the oceans.
It’s just as retared as blaming McDonalds for obesitas, YOU buy it, you don’t live healty, you have to drive a car and wreck the environment. If nobody would buy their products, there wouldn’t be a problem.
A better analogy would be blaming McDonald’s for distributing tainted meat to a section of the country, causing several deaths and economically devastating coastal communities.
I think the long-term solution is not using oil, but in this particular case, it was not part of the normal business model that caused the disaster, it was incompetence on the part of the people in charge of keeping the rig safe. Of course it’s their fault for letting the safety features go to rot.
A history teacher of mine brought me to a not-so-alarming realization, oil will NOT cease to be used until ALL of Earth’s oil supply is depleted. It’s just not gunna happen. I honestly can’t wait until the supply is so low people will freak out and strap solar panels to their oh-so-needed escalators (idk how ud get sun inside though…).
I personally don’t like the idea of individual “blame” at all. Unless, of course, someone did something along the lines of: “hey lets drop an anchor right on that pipe right there”. I mean, no one could have completely seen this coming. I do blame BP’s parents though, for not spoiling the kid. Kinda like Stephen (biggest freakout guy). And if you (just wondering) really are some BP guy, it would help to spell-check when speaking online.
Is it really possible for most people in the modern US to not use oil in their daily lives? How about not using products that used oil anywhere in the production or shipping process. I can go without McDonalds for the rest of my life, but cutting out oil entirely even in the long-term future seems impossible.
Analogy fail. McDonald’s sells food as a part of it’s business model. your analogy would only be relevant if a restaurant had as part of it’s way of making money taking food it has spent money on purchasing and thrown it on the floor and then stomped all over it thereby making it impossible to make any money off it. also the floor in question would be the living rooms of people who bought their product.
Since this is not the case, how can you possibly defend a company that took the risk of drilling for oil, lost literally 100s of millions of it in an accident it could have prevented had it used sensible industry standard safeguards and is still failing to plug the damn hole?
Some people.
Nesting fail, sorry wino, I was replying to just wondering.
I was *wondering* about that… lol.
Perhaps even…***just wondering?***
lol
Currently, no it is not possible. Oil is used to produce energy, plastics, paving materials, building materials, clothing, medicine, etc. Oil is used for many products, it is virtually impossible to go without. You’re wearing products that are made of or made possible by the oil industry.
BP was and is responsible for the actions on that specific platform. Of course it could have happened anywhere and just the same to any other oil company who would be then held responsible. If you are cooking, it is YOUR responsibility to make sure that the kitchen does not get set on fire and if it does, it is YOUR responsibility to take the proper steps to prevent the whole house from getting burned. It is the same thing
Ok so BP who leased the rig from Transocean are responsible for the state of repair of a rig they do not own, do not actually employ the people on board.
Now my analogy:
you rent a car, its brakes fail and you cause an accident, are you responsible for this? or does the rental company fit the bill?
oh and Transocean is a US company, which is why it’ll never get blamed for cost cutting and is why I’ll maybe get a bit of a slating on here
You’ve rented the car for a long term – six months or an year you are definitely responsible if it fails for not making sure it was running properly. Just because something has been rented doesn’t mean you shouldn’t maintain it.
Sorry, but the lessor is responsible for upkeep unless the lease requires that the lessee be responsible.
Actually, according to the terms of the lease agreement, Transocean IS responsible for the rig maintenance. In fact, there are numerous letters ON FILE from BP to Transocean about problems on the rig. Transoceanic’s response was that the rig was up to spec according to the new specifications signed into effect by President Obama and therefore no maintence was necessary.
In this respect, both Transoceanic and BP are legally and ethically in the right. Morally?? Well, everywhere else the rig would not have been up to spec, so I tend to think that Transoceanic should have done the asked for maintenance anyway.
Unfortunately, our President chooses to point the finger at BP to draw attention from his own screw-up of lowering requirements (earlier, if you recall, he blamed the Bush administration for not ‘conveying how important those standards were to his Administration’ but not even his fellow Democrats could swallow THAT much B.S.).
As usual, the “Washington Two-Step” is in full motion and the 15 sec attention span of our public is going to let themselves be distracted… again.
as an outsider (french here), I really don’t understand this issue. Why britishs feel offend? The company was attacked, not the country. Is that because americans speak about “british petrolum” instead of “bp”, or because it ruins value of bp?
In first case, i don’t think american people will be angry against british people, but just against their huge industries (just like huge abusing industries everywhere else).
In the second case, well, it’s the good time for an other british company to buy bp for cheap (since it is at its lower), change the name, and use available money to 1°) preserve employment, 2°) enhance security, 3°) research on ecology. That will a an successful company, since it will be what everyone want.
I think the issue is largely national pride and standing, but it is also true that the dropping share prices of BP will affect the UK’s economy. I think it’s overblown though since BP is one of the largest companies in the world. There is no way that it is going to fail as a result of this spill.
I like you.
@oelmekki
Why Blame BP for this? It makes the joke funny. ^_^
Megaduck makes a great point. If we blame BP, the joke is waaaaay funnier.
Nice one, Megaduck! The funny’s been a bit thin on the ground recently.
Logic?! Fie! Fie on you and your logic!
Technically, although it is partly the public’s fault for even using oil from rigs like the Deepwater Horizon and possibly the government’s fault for not acting in time, it is mostly BP’s fault, because BP is kicking back when millions of birds and fish are dying off, economies crashing, lifestyes ruined, and millions of gallons of oil wasted. What are you, the CEO?
Well, the consumer is uninformed until tragedy happens
Your argument would seem more valid if
1) it made sense
2) it had fewer spelling errors
3) you were not a hypocrite
BP taking months to stop a spill *IS* BP’s fault.
It’s also like blaming the schools for people being “retared”. You can’t blame McDonalds for “obesitas”.
Also, you economyfail.
BP wouldn’t have even drilled this well if our government hadn’t banned drilling in 85% of the shallower gulf waters. BP had an agreement with Louisiana to drill in the shallows but our brilliant government stepped in and vetoed the deal and forced BP to drill deep.
Funny, political, and relevant. Thanks megaduck
American’s have some front! After denying climate change, refusing to curb pollution etc for years, it takes an oil spill caused by a British company for the whole US to become eco warriors! This caption is offensive. Lets go back in time and stop the US forming then we have no Iraq war, no Afghanistan, no George Bush and less pollution!
Eco warriors have nothing to do with it. I daresay most people are not aware of just how badly petroleum companies handle things when dealing with less powerful or rich nations. BP made the mistake of letting it’s warts show where it will hurt.
I wonder how you would feel if a foreign company dropped through it’s knowing negligence a few million liters of toxic sludge on your front yard. i am guessing you would raise some cain.
I’d probably feel like the citizens of Bhopal did when an American company killed thousands of people and caused generations’ worth of damage. Then paid up (up to 17 years later) a total of $470m. Which would you say was the worse disaster? America protected its own then, and sod those poor Indians. Just sayin’. I would not be surprised if the Chairman of BP were extradited and publicly burned at the stake, or if BP were forced to rebuild the entire US from scratch, knowing how compensation culture operates over there. However the money will also come out of Americans’ pockets because 39% of the shares are held by American banks, pension funds etc.
exactly- amazing the difference when America is affected by another countries company. Just imagine if it had been a Russian company rather than the special British friends…
Dave, we do know what the response would have been if it had been a Russian company.
“You Americans are weak and pathetic, whining about your ridiculous “oil spill”. In Russia, our oil platforms leak anthrax and super-AIDS.” From VP on Twitter
No, no it would go something like this:
All around the world, people go to the sea to get the oil. In soviet Russian, oil floats to you”
dang, it’s too early in the morning for proper typing.
* in Soviet Russia
p.s. way to mess up the punch line…whoever lame it is
Well your brain partially works. Now kindly find a larger sandbox than this to educate more people on where their oil is coming from. Because most people do not know. That was the second sentence of my post.
Holding to my point, people only care about what they can see is happening. The gulf spill is VERY visible and no less a failure of BP for in your perception not being as bad a disaster.
Now assuming I still have your attention, would you like to speculate on how many nations will be adversely impacted should that spill reach the Gulf Stream?
Your first sentence doesn’t make sense. YOU tell people where their oil comes from, if you think they don’t know. Don’t persist in assuming too much about what people know and don’t know, either, it’s not a good look.
‘people only care about what they can see is happening.’ Well no actually, maybe just you.
‘would you like to speculate on how many nations will be adversely impacted should that spill reach the Gulf Stream?’ Not very much. It evaporates, residues sink, it gets chewed up by microbes and eventually becomes harmless. The long term effects of oil spills are not apocalyptic.
Of course nothing excuses the errors leading to the spill. I was just putting the US government’s reaction into perspective by comparing it with their uncaring attitude when a US company caused a major environmental disaster in another country.
*Sigh* which brings me back to the need to find a better sandbox. Given how underreported atrocities in other countries are, it is a reasonable assumption that their full extent in unknown.
Thanks for removing all context from my comment on people caring about what they see. perhaps I could have phrased it as what people see and know. 1000 people dying in a mining accident is a statistic, 1 person who is you mother, father, brother or sister is a tragedy. If you mourn the tragedy of strangers to the same extent as you do people close to then i applaud your emotional stamina.
What is close to you has much more personal impact. Something good could come from this.
sadly, while I agree with a whole lot that you are saying, I have to admit that in such a case, we would all be speaking german… (WWII)
First of all, jackass, it would not make us all eco warriors. There are idiots in this country (Sarah Palin) who are blaming environmentalists for causing this catastrophe. Others are blaming Obama for some reason. And there would still be plenty of pollution on this planet without us.
The caption is making a JOKE about making sure the founder of a company that is destroying the Gulf of Mexico was never born. You want to get rid of an entire country, and about 300 million people.
And my point was that stopping the founding of a company that caused this is less pointless than changing the course of history for the most polluting country in the world. Maybe, we should change history so America signs up to the Kyoto? Short memories you people have- rember Exxon?
rember your sense of humor today?
not when American news hosts suggest that anyone with a British accent is telling lies. Feels a little like all Brits are tainted by the disaster, yet we never assumed all Americans were as dumb as George W.
Oh, that’s silly. People are just mad about the disaster. We don’t blame Britain for everything. Lots of people blame our government. Don’t get me started on the wacko right wing talk show hosts.
Quite a few people will. you’re just one of the few reasonable people on the world.
average idiots will hate the whole country for something they didn’t choose to be a part of.
like god knows how many people actually hated Icelandics for that silly volcano.
Cheese, you’re making a really big assumption here that “many people” actually know what the letters BP stand for. Trust me, they don’t. The secret is safe.
Yeah…um…I didn’t actually know until people started arguing about it on here sometime last week. I was just running on the assumption that it stood for “Big Pricks”
You mean, not until after your politicians decided to try and blane the one corporate entity involved that wasn’t American, even though they trusted their American sub-contractors to supply kit in good order.
I don’t know if any American companies could supply ‘kit’ without an American-English dictionary.
I work in the oil capital of Canada and I didn’t know what it stood for. And even now that I do, I don’t necessarily associate it with the country.
I didn’t know we were blaming the Icelandics for the volcano! Why didn’t I get the memo?
Maybe I should have spelled it humour then.
Actually, you ARE assuming we’re all “as dumb as George W.” You’re also assuming we wanted all the crap that GW pulled in the 8 years he was in office; “Maybe, we should change history so America signs up to the Kyoto? Short memories you people have- rember[sic] Exxon?” See? Generalize much? If we had been happy about things, Obama wouldn’t have been elected by the landslide that he was. Us tree-hugging dirty libruls were PISSED that he didn’t sign the Kyoto Accord. And we were horrified by the Exxon Valdez spill. Stomp assuming, ass.
Hm, “Stomp” should be stop. Very Freudian.
Yes, I remEMber Exxon. Some of the people of this country have done some unpleasant things, but haven’t people of all countries? And btw, you can’t change the past. That creates a paradox and gives the universe the Blue Screen of Death.
well said Rando
Thanks, Angie.
Dude evere seen Terminator?
The joke is funny.
Funny is the point here.
I’ve never seen Terminator.
The joke is not funny, just stupid.
Your point is fail, Maker.
Your point is fail, Tammy
My point is that the joke is funny if you have seen Terminator.
It’s a good movie. You should rent it.
The American anger at BP has nothing to do with the fact that their British. It has to do with the fact that they perpetrated the worst oil spill in history on American shores. The anger would be just as severe if it were an American company that was at fault.
You mean someone like the American company who leased out an exploration platform with a faulty blowout preventor?
Or the American government that didn’t require the higher level of safety standards that some other countries require?
Or like how Union Carbide did nothing after its factory blew up in Bhopal, dispersing chemicals in the surrounding areas, which still effect people today, 25 years later
I don’t forgive Union Carbide, either.
And if it had been Exxon at fault for the Gulf spill, I would be just as angry at Exxon as I am at BP. False argument.
And just to be clear, I also blame the US’s minerals management service (who are under the ax now). And I hope that Haliburton, Cameron international, and Transocean are all thoroughly investigates, and that the guilty parties are brought to full justice.
Not all of us are the fat cat climate change-deniers. Only the ones in power are.
Wait, wouldn’t destroying BP simply create an even worse energy company which causes a oil spill and a nuclear explosion simultaneously?!
As catastrophic as that would be, that would be one hell of a fireworks show. Where is my popcorn?
I hear there will be cheap seats at the international space station!
But In all seriousness as a UK citizen I worry that our biggest company will be sold off to another foreign giant…
I for one have been seeing this as an opportunity for Shell to take over BP from the start.
It would be a good growing possibility for Shell, and it would make the UK less sensitive, since Shell has already taken over a British oil company in the past, so it partly is already British.
HASTA LA VISTA….BABY!!!
Completely off topic, but I feel like telling my favourite childhood joke:
A swarm of bees was heading north for the summer, when they, en masse, determined that they needed a toilet stop, so they all headed into the BP station to take care of business. Except one bee – he made a hard left into the Esso station.
There is always one Esso bee in every crowd.
Ba Dum crash
Thanks! I love drummers. You can’t tell, but I’m batting my eyelashes at you.
(For you young’uns, Exxon used to be Esso…)
no he will kill columbus and make america an Austrian colony. and also conquer Australia as Gros östereich reich
We finally get a funny on PK and the humorless have a field day, sigh.
Well I appreciate that you found it funny.
It’s the best one we’ve had in a little while, Megaduck. Well done. Since it’s BP some people are gonna get butthurt about it, but you did fine.
Yes, cheers Megaduck!
Ditto! Also, cheers on making me sing the Darkwing Duck theme song in my head.
I kept wondering where I had heard that name before. It took a few minutes before it clicked.
If a Terminator couldn’t kill off John Connor in 4 movies, what makes you think he could do it to BP’s founder?
4 movies and 2 Tv series!
in which his german voice sound better his real
He’d probably get arrested for being a Prussian spy…
I dont understand why Obama keeps calling BP British Petroleum, it hasnt been named that in at least a decade. Also, it does seem he is blaming the British, when US and GB both have 6 directors each for the company, and the US has double the amount of employees than Britain. Something like 200,000
ROFLMAO!
What’s with people suddenly calling it “British Petrolium” again? It’s not been called that for over a decade and it employs twice as many Americans as Britons, paying billions more in tax on the US side of the Atlantic. Don’t try and shift the blame over here, its you guys who decided to drill, baby, drill in your own back yard.
Do you really expect us to keep track of the name changes of every single company in the world? We can’t keep track of our own, silly person!
Methinks because “Beyond Petroleum” is a bit of an oxymoron in this situation.
Apologies for causing this funny satirical site to become an anglo-american discussion forum. I love America, my boss is American, but sometimes they really don’t see how they portray others and how others see them. Nobody liked George W., but enough Americans voted for him so we can blame them for that! And they did it twice!
You know, Bush received barely more than half the popular (direct) vote. And that’s of the people who could and did vote, so it wasn’t even a majority of Americans. So, no, I don’t think it’s fair to blame all of us for W.
We could try it with Obama, but we don’t know where he was born.
*facepalm*
Dumbass.
WIN!!!!
The real problem is you corrupt Yanks. This area is one of the worst regulated because your safety guys keep taking bribes to allow companies to do their own safety checks.
I had nothing to do with it, d!ckhole.
Nevermind, Doctor Who will handle it.
oh please, everyone knows you go to Doc Brown for time travel
I’m not sure that very one will make the things better
There’s no such company as British Petroleum.
As of over a decade ago, it’s just been BP. Just BP. BP doesn’t stand for anything anymore, that’s just the name of the company.
Plus it employs more Americans than Brits, and pays three times more tax to the American government than the British one.
Send Der Terminator back in time to plant this carefully forged birth certificate….
(and maybe to kill the crazy grandmother who has kept saying he was born in kenya)
WHY play this BLAME GAME?? Why not spend all this energy (no pun intended) on ways to CLEAN UP THE MESS! This is either a natural disaster or sabotage! Only the latter would give us a need to find the one to BLAME!
BP has already said it would pay for the damages. Let it go already!!
This would be awesome on so many levels.
Does this mean Obama is working with Skynet?
Lol, nice joke. (Its just a joke pople, relax…)
._. People ..people.. Some of us didn’t like the fact that we still rely on oil way before this disaster ..
Seriously… it’s a joke. Besides if the reverse had happened and Amoco bought BP and spilled oil in the Channel and the Brits began referring to it as American Oil Company, no one in the US would give a crap that you call the company by it’s former name. It would still be a disaster that needed to be cleaned up. Stop being so sensitive.
Oh and people didn’t become Eco warriors after the oil spill. They became Eco warriors after Al Gore made a movie several years ago. And just like Britains can’t be blamed for BP, not every American can be blamed for not joining Kyoto.
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