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BP CEO: We Have Got To Stop This Spill -- I Want My Life Back! (VIDEO)
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BP CEO Tony Hayward says he's really motivated. He really wants to get this disastrous oil leak in the Gulf Coast plugged. After all, that's the only way he's going to get his life back.
Tony Hayward announced over the weekend that while he's "sorry for the massive disruption" the oil spill has caused, "there's no one who wants this thing over more than I do."
"Y'know, I'd like my life back," he said. "So there's no one who wants this thing done more than I do, and we are doing everything we can to contain the oil offshore, defend the shoreline and return people's lives to normal as fast as we can."
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It's not the first time Hayward has veered off message. Earlier this month, Hayward told the Guardian that the size of the oil spill is relatively "tiny."
The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.
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barrelhse
May 31, 2010 3:23 PM
He wants his life back? I wasn't aware that Hayward lives and works on the Gulf Coast. What a jerk.
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Sailormarlowe
May 31, 2010 7:10 PM in reply to barrelhse
The man deserves his life back. People are more important than pelicans.
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Druthers
June 1, 2010 5:13 AM in reply to Sailormarlowe
There are lots of citizens who would be happy to offer him a life behind bars.
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worthlesscitizen
June 1, 2010 8:31 AM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Heheh, good one. Let's soil the whole world--it isn't like humans need clean water or air...
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Shoto
June 1, 2010 8:31 AM in reply to Sailormarlowe
If ocean species are getting wiped out - birds, fish, etc. - what makes you think you're not next? Only an idiot could come to such a conclusion. Jagoff...
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June 1, 2010 12:02 AM in reply to barrelhse
i agree. he has not lost his livelihood
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sean
May 31, 2010 3:33 PM
This dwarf wants his life back?!??
I'd like my Gulf of Mexico back, thank you very much.
Will the BP Stooges pluck away, boobery after boobery, until dead zones seem life-affirming contrasted against the oily cesspool that once was a living sea?
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Rick Adams
May 31, 2010 3:40 PM
The total population of the World is very large (6,824,417,804). BP CEO Tony Hayward is a small man, and is absolutely tiny in relation to the total world population.
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Given Up
May 31, 2010 3:42 PM
What gets me is the sense of entitlement these people feel, he seems to honestly believe that his "predicament" is on par with that of the people who live on the gulf coast. I give up.
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reasonableanonymous
May 31, 2010 4:08 PM
He should resign today. Then he will "have his life back." Well, except for the many hearings he'll be called to testify at.
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CranialRectalLoopback
May 31, 2010 4:12 PM
Life back? I believe in the "family values", "Christian loving" South they execute murderers. You murdered eleven workers. I'm hoping you get your life taken.
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WestRox
May 31, 2010 4:22 PM
This guy is a TOTAL douche bag. I saw him on BBC a few weeks ago and he said "oh, it's just a small spill, we will fix it and the damage isn't as bad as it's being presented."
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reasonableanonymous
May 31, 2010 4:37 PM in reply to WestRox
In fact he said it was "tiny."
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barrelhse
May 31, 2010 5:20 PM in reply to reasonableanonymous
He must have been thinking of what's in his trousers when he said "tiny".
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reasonableanonymous
May 31, 2010 5:28 PM in reply to barrelhse
Or the size of his brain? Or his shriveled little soul?
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MrJJ
May 31, 2010 4:44 PM
Famous Sayings of BP CEO Tony Hayward
"We are going to defend the beaches. We will fix this."
"What they hell have we (BP) done to deserve this?"
"We will only win this if we can win the hearts and minds of the local community."
"It was a bit bumpy to get it going. We made a few little mistakes early on."
"The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume."
"It's not possible to measure the flow from the leak."
"I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest."
"There aren't any plumes."
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acf_ma
May 31, 2010 5:09 PM
I'll bet he thought he was doing a swell job, and that things were hunky dory when BP was raking in 10s of billions of dollars in profit based on speculators bidding up the price of a barrel of crude. Life was good then. When this is the flip side of the coin.
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SaintGenesius
May 31, 2010 6:39 PM
Arrest him, try him for crimes againast humanity, if nothing else, for being the biggest asshole on earth.
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FreemanW
May 31, 2010 7:21 PM
This psychopath really ought to be locked up.
Oh the lies that BP has spewed, like so much oil polluting the Gulf of Mexicoil.
Here is the BP "Initial Exploration Plan for the Mississippi Canyon Block 252" as filed with the MMS
http://www.gomr.mms.gov/PI/PDFImages/PLANS/29/29977.pdf
In Section 7.1 Worst-Case Scenario Determination, the BP engineers (page 28 of the PDF) estimate "Volume Uncontrolled Blowout (per day)" 162,000 barrels.
BP spokespeople have conducted themselves in a manner commensurate with their behavior leading up to the catastrophe, with deliberate Criminal Negligence.
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PAvoter
May 31, 2010 7:44 PM
Gosh the disruption must be terrible for his social life. I guess the BP Board will have to give him a huge raise and bonus to compensate for his woes.
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ernestv
May 31, 2010 8:03 PM
Hey I got a suggestion... take your a** back now to the UK... you ain't doin shit here anyway... after all it's not the English Channel that being screwed up it just that little old Gulf of Mexico....
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tiredofit10
June 1, 2010 7:00 AM
Is he still a millionaire? He needs to stop thinking about himself, selfish pr@@@?
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kfdan
June 1, 2010 8:15 AM
He wants his life back ... well ... it's too late for that! Should have thought more about safety and less about the money you could save!
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Publishermike
June 1, 2010 8:47 AM
Pelican to BP: I want my life back.
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Dorn76
June 1, 2010 10:46 AM
He still has his job, unlike thousands on the Gulf Coast idled by the spill, and he still has life, unlike the 11 men and millions of creatures that will die as a result.
This guy needs to see the inside of a prison cell.
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