"I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don't care,
but that is not the case with BP.
We care about the small people."
- Carl-Henric Svanberg (BP Chairman)
Twenty billion ways to say you're sorry. That ain't one of them.
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Mr. Svanberg's ability for placing his foot in his mouth is nearly supernatural. If he was a comic book character, it would be his superpower. It is that amazing. You have selected a fine example, but he can do this all day long.
ReplyDeleteActually I'm assuming some of this line is a classic "lost in translation" thing. But after all the mistakes already made, it's yet one more bit of the narrative that BP is a company very unconcerned about the side effects of its drive for profits.
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