I write on behalf of Mr. Anthony Hayward, whom you insulted in your column of last week entitled “A Message from Real Americans.”
First: You silly twit!
Second, you clearly have delusions of intelligence wrapped in a pasta of patriotism and marinated in that “self-love” you Americans love to tout.
Thirdly: You silly twit!
You propose Mr. Hayward is out of touch with little people. You also propose Mr. Hayward is like the fellow at Goldman Sachs and other corporate leaders – amoral.
Well, of course he is out of touch with little people. He doesn’t converse with his valet, driver or secretaries unless the occasion dictates. Mr. Hayward has only one care in life: BP shareholders. And, truth be told, that care is about increasing their share value (in other words, he’s not about to invite anyone over for tea who can’t increase shareholder value).
That’s what corporations do, twit. It’s in their charters: make money for shareholders. They don’t do good deeds (except as needed for making customers feel warm and cuddly about buying their products). They’re not “supportive.” They don’t “listen.” They just make money for shareholders. They are amoral by design.
And from that design comes our corporate strategy.
It is why we take shortcuts and bypass, delay and ignore regulations, as on the Deepwater Horizon. Between 2007 and 2010 two of our refineries alone were cited by OSHA for 862 “willful” violations. That was 97 percent of the whole refinement industry’s violations. Sometimes we actually have to pay fines. Remember the 2005 Texas City explosion that killed 15 and injured 170? Or the Alaska spills, like the 2006 in Prudhoe Bay? But what are fines of a few hundred million against profits of $16 billion a year?
It’s why we lease our oil rigs from other corporations like Transocean and hire companies like Halliburton. We can dilute liability when a violation becomes a disaster.
And when there is a disaster we just soothe the media and Congress with statements like “we have fallen short of the high standards we hold for ourselves.” Works every time.
Many Americans, including President Obamer, seem to think BP is in deep trouble because of the Gulf incident. They point to our stock-price drop of nearly 50 percent.
They’re twits too, of course.
First, your media will tire of the story soon. Remember the Exxon Valdez, Katrina and Haiti? Your media bloody well dropped those like bad blind dates, didn’t they?
As they lose interest, we will clean our bad image with good PR, filling your media with stories about all the good works of BP. Soon – 6 months to a year – you will think of BP as a kind uncle once again.
Second, we are one of the biggest oil suppliers in the world. Our oil is sold on the open market and bought by Exxon, Shell and others who then add their derivatives to make it different and sell it under their names. So, even if you boycott BP stations, who cares?
Third, if you think you can confiscate our oil rigs or petrol stations, have fun. We don’t own them (except a few of the stations).
Fourth, those people who live around the Gulf may be angry at us now, but they’ll turn on you and Obamer very soon. Why? Because there are two ways to keep the family fed in those areas: fishing and oil drilling. We’ve destroyed their fishing to a fare-thee-well. But when your government makes it too hard for BP or others to drill for oil, you may want to sell Louisiana back to the French, because there’ll be no work at all.
Just buy my stock and shut up, you silly twit.
by Henry Briggs
First: You silly twit!
Second, you clearly have delusions of intelligence wrapped in a pasta of patriotism and marinated in that “self-love” you Americans love to tout.
Thirdly: You silly twit!
You propose Mr. Hayward is out of touch with little people. You also propose Mr. Hayward is like the fellow at Goldman Sachs and other corporate leaders – amoral.
Well, of course he is out of touch with little people. He doesn’t converse with his valet, driver or secretaries unless the occasion dictates. Mr. Hayward has only one care in life: BP shareholders. And, truth be told, that care is about increasing their share value (in other words, he’s not about to invite anyone over for tea who can’t increase shareholder value).
That’s what corporations do, twit. It’s in their charters: make money for shareholders. They don’t do good deeds (except as needed for making customers feel warm and cuddly about buying their products). They’re not “supportive.” They don’t “listen.” They just make money for shareholders. They are amoral by design.
And from that design comes our corporate strategy.
It is why we take shortcuts and bypass, delay and ignore regulations, as on the Deepwater Horizon. Between 2007 and 2010 two of our refineries alone were cited by OSHA for 862 “willful” violations. That was 97 percent of the whole refinement industry’s violations. Sometimes we actually have to pay fines. Remember the 2005 Texas City explosion that killed 15 and injured 170? Or the Alaska spills, like the 2006 in Prudhoe Bay? But what are fines of a few hundred million against profits of $16 billion a year?
It’s why we lease our oil rigs from other corporations like Transocean and hire companies like Halliburton. We can dilute liability when a violation becomes a disaster.
And when there is a disaster we just soothe the media and Congress with statements like “we have fallen short of the high standards we hold for ourselves.” Works every time.
Many Americans, including President Obamer, seem to think BP is in deep trouble because of the Gulf incident. They point to our stock-price drop of nearly 50 percent.
They’re twits too, of course.
First, your media will tire of the story soon. Remember the Exxon Valdez, Katrina and Haiti? Your media bloody well dropped those like bad blind dates, didn’t they?
As they lose interest, we will clean our bad image with good PR, filling your media with stories about all the good works of BP. Soon – 6 months to a year – you will think of BP as a kind uncle once again.
Second, we are one of the biggest oil suppliers in the world. Our oil is sold on the open market and bought by Exxon, Shell and others who then add their derivatives to make it different and sell it under their names. So, even if you boycott BP stations, who cares?
Third, if you think you can confiscate our oil rigs or petrol stations, have fun. We don’t own them (except a few of the stations).
Fourth, those people who live around the Gulf may be angry at us now, but they’ll turn on you and Obamer very soon. Why? Because there are two ways to keep the family fed in those areas: fishing and oil drilling. We’ve destroyed their fishing to a fare-thee-well. But when your government makes it too hard for BP or others to drill for oil, you may want to sell Louisiana back to the French, because there’ll be no work at all.
Just buy my stock and shut up, you silly twit.
by Henry Briggs