Appearing today before a Senate panel investigating the disastrous oil leak in the Gulf, BP America's Chairman Lamar McKay was asked, essentially, "Who screwed up here?" McKay summoned up all of his business ethics, channeled the Family Circus cartoon, and replied, "Not me!" He said it was the fault of TransOcean, which owns the oil rig and did the drilling. For their part, TransOcean blames Halliburton for poor installation of the blowout valve, a safety feature which went kaput.
Nice try, Mr. McKay, but your kite won't fly. BP is the operator of the well and owns the rights to the oil. Like any manufacturer subcontracting this part or that, BP may have farmed out certain portions of its operation, but it's still by far the biggest turd in this particular punch bowl. They're gonna pay. Probably will need to sue the shit out of 'em to get 'em to do it, but they're gonna pay.
Anybody else for a moratorium on off-shore drilling?
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