Thats because New York is a shit place to trade, you'll find oodles of US companies trading in London due to that. Tell you what, we'll cop all the blame for this and we'll also take a huge chunk of US-owned intellectual property due the fact their owners operate, for tax and regulatory reasons, in the UK. Then you can do a thread about us stealing all your ideas, and we can point and laugh at you all over again.
Yes BP is a private company, but they need to be accountable and who else but the government is going to hold them accountable? Perhaps the US government should start seizing assets and selling them off to pay for things instead of getting involved in BPs internal business.
And since no one is saying they're not accountable, your counterpoint is to an opinion no one actually holds. Maybe I'll start a thread about Obamas plan to ban zebras. He hasn't such a plan, but I'm sure you'll be happy to chime in nonetheless. And good luck with that asset seizing. May want to frame that quote. Or add it as your sig... Oh wait.
Who can deny the British Governments involvement with America over the years. Perhaps we ran up that trillion dollar deficit for you too?
My fear here is that this will hurt off shore oil drilling for a long time. From what I can tell, the rig job was hurried and corners were cut on placing redundant valves in the pipeline in several places. I think this will work about like the Nuke thing. When 3 mile island happened because of mistakes, then all nuke plant development pretty much stopped and it has been only recently that they have been talking about adding more. Even though all the reactors that were already running and have been since that time have went along without any major problems and unnoticed for most part.
The Gulf coast has 100s of miles of unspoiled beaches and all that is going to be ruined by a big company cutting corners. Lots of people make their living off of the fishing industry there. The British government and the British people all know this and they are more concerned about their stock values. If BP is unrelated to Britain then why all the crying about the stock values? You can't have it both ways. If the the British government is trying to keep BPs stock prices up, then there is a direct correlation between BP and Britain, even though the name has changed.
This would be a good time for Argentina to take back the Islas Malvinas.They could win the PR effort and justify it as a preemptive strike before the incompetent Brits are allowed to explore off shore oil opportunities and ruin the south Atlantic like they have the Gulf!
And I suppose the 40% of BP share owners, who happen to be American and upset are seeing their share price go down, are just leftover 5th columnists from the Revolutionary war? I hope BP countersues the American company that made the defective concrete plug, the ensuing EP thread ought to be another tour de retard.
There was a April Fools email about the UK selling the Falklands back to the Argies, I'd be quite happy for us to do so! If it wasn't for the invasion back in the early 80's, they'd have had them already, the UK government had been trying their level best to convince the islanders to take joint citizenship though the 70's.
I don't give a shit about any BP shareholders. If you are so over exposed to one company that their bankruptcy will wipe you out, than you are fucking stupid.
NO! The world demands catharsis for these BP mess and only a few dozen dead Brits washing up on the beaches of the Falklands will satisfy our bloodlust! This is no time for a peaceful settlement!
Meh, we'll just outsource the war to the Palestinians, we can then watch the Argies Belgrano a peace flotilla or two
No I am looking for the right time to buy some BP stock. When this passes they will be back up again and pass the costs of all this along to the consumer like all companies do, but now is a good time to buy. The prices are sure to take a few more big hits when the leak is stopped and the salivating lawyers hit the courts. It was the same with exxon with the valdez. Oil doesn't detroy things forever and nature is quite resilient. In a few years the exxon spill was just a memory and things looked like they had before, but then they had to deal with law suits from out of work fishermen (many of whom look like they never really fished commerially in their lives) claiming the fish were all gone and stuff even though studies showed plenty of fish. This is the problem, claims that are not legit and everybody wanting their fist full of money.
Sure it's a multinational. Its also the largest corporation in the UK, has had Anglo or British in its name for 100 years. and is responsible for some incredibly shady shit, including the Iranian Revolution and several previous environmental disasters. Yes, we equate it with Britain. That doesn't mean it's run all by British people, or that it pays divdends only to the Brits, but it sure as hell started life as a British company, its synonymous with the British oil industry and north sea drilling, and it was fucking OWNED DIRECTLY BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT for 40 years, from 1913 to 1953. I'm sorry your corporation sucks, and certainly they've bought up several American corporations as well, and I don't blame the British people as a whole for the actions of BP. But its a British company. Shut up with the fucking WHAAAAAA.
