BP America chief: ‘Sorry’ for Gulf disaster

[kpete]

Source: Raw Story/Agence France-Presse

BP America chief: ‘Sorry’ for Gulf disaster

By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 -- 2:12 pm


BP America chief executive Lamar McKay told angry lawmakers Tuesday that the embattled energy giant was "sorry" for the impact of a disastrous oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico.

US lawmakers grilled oil company bosses Tuesday just hours before President Barack Obama was to outline new steps to battle the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a solemn Oval Office address.

Oil executives rounded on rival BP insisting America's worst ever environmental disaster could have been prevented if the British energy giant had followed industry-wide safety practices.

Bosses from global oil titans ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and Shell took pains to distance themselves at the packed Congress hearing from the unfolding Gulf catastrophe.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0615/bp-america-chief-sorry-gulf-disaster/

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1. "BP credit rating slashed from AA to BBB" by Fitch---no slashing with previous BP violations

No, previous recent spills in AK and elsewhere weren't enough to let investors in on the dirty secret that BP had major safety and environmental problems.

[Robb]

2. Well, see, he's sorry. WTF, people?

...What do you want, planet? Accountability?? He SAID he's SORRY.

No problem, Lamar. :eyes:

http://twitter.com/bpglobalpr

[gratuitous]

3. "And here's twenty bucks that says let's let bygones be bygones"

"You're not going to get all snitty about this, are you?"

[dipsydoodle]

4. Well the alternative

was that he wasn't sorry.

[Dappleganger]

5. Sorry won't plug the holes.

Sorry won't clean the environment.
Sorry won't bring back all of those animals and fish from the dead.
Sorry won't restore shrimping and fishing back to the coast.
Sorry won't pay for all the damage which has been done.

[CLANG]

6. They're SORRY!! Hurrah!! Now I can go back to my soap opera without all that stress.

[happygoluckytoyou]

7. QUIT MAKING FUN... I F;ING SAID SORRY... NOW GO HOME AND LEAVE ME ALONE!!!

[glinda]

8. Make him say it directly to the oil drowning birds and animals.