Oh, It's Only Just a "Relatively Tiny" Little Oil Spill.

Don't worry about that pesky oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP CEO Tony Hayward says: It's "relatively tiny" compared to the "very big ocean."

Hayward launched this novel defense of the worst spill in U.S. history during an interview with the Guardian that deserves a full read, especially with BP fighting the Obama administration's push to make the company pay the full tab for cleanup costs. The BP chief executive acknowledged for the first time that he expects his future with the company to be "judged by the nature of the response" to the current crisis; this may help explain his stream of delaying tactics and excuses.

"We will fix it. I guarantee it. The only question is we do not know when," Hayward told the Guardian. "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."

Before calling the oil spill analogous to the Apollo 13 flight and comparing it favorably with a deadly 2005 BP rig explosion in Texas, Hayward said BP is "increasingly confident" that they'll find a way to stop the oil flow, and that the company has already prevented significant amounts of oil from reaching the shore.

BP's CEO isn't alone in downplaying the effects of the spill. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) told the Associated Press his state is ready for tourism dollars -- just don't get too close to the water while waterskiing.

"We don't wash our face in it, but it doesn't stop us from jumping off the boat to ski," Barbour said.

Turbojett wrote:there's flammable liquid gushing up from the ocean floor not fifty miles away from the Louisiana coastline, and they say nuke it? great idea.

Turbojett wrote:Russia just wants to make sure we don't have any nukes. and then, when the time is right...blammo. Putin presses the red button. I don't care if he's not the president anymore...he will break into the Kremlin and kill us all!

Turbojett wrote:Russia just wants to make sure we don't have any nukes. and then, when the time is right...blammo. Putin presses the red button. I don't care if he's not the president anymore...he will break into the Kremlin and kill us all!

Turbojett wrote:And he's got a "relatively tiny" little brain

Turbojett wrote:...seriously? have you not been paying attention?
I don't think I was out of line at all.
It doesn't matter what he had to do to get in his position, CEO doesn't necessarily equal brains. Especially not if he's going to spout such ignorance as that and expect us to believe it.

millertime wrote:

Turbojett wrote:...seriously? have you not been paying attention?
I don't think I was out of line at all.
It doesn't matter what he had to do to get in his position, CEO doesn't necessarily equal brains. Especially not if he's going to spout such ignorance as that and expect us to believe it.

What percentage of 100% would you consider relatively tiny?

Turbojett wrote:...seriously? have you not been paying attention?
I don't think I was out of line at all.
It doesn't matter what he had to do to get in his position, CEO doesn't necessarily equal brains.

Pennzoil GT-R wrote:

Turbojett wrote:...seriously? have you not been paying attention?
I don't think I was out of line at all.
It doesn't matter what he had to do to get in his position, CEO doesn't necessarily equal brains.

well, yes it generally does. but if being the CEO of the world's 4th largest company doesnt convince you he's a little more than a vegetable, how about a Phd?

Turbofrog wrote:He's not stupid. An unabashed liar, savagely amoral, or intentionally ignorant, perhaps. But you can be convinced that every evil word is carefully chosen.

Turbojett wrote:

Pennzoil GT-R wrote:

Turbojett wrote:...seriously? have you not been paying attention?
I don't think I was out of line at all.
It doesn't matter what he had to do to get in his position, CEO doesn't necessarily equal brains.

well, yes it generally does. but if being the CEO of the world's 4th largest company doesnt convince you he's a little more than a vegetable, how about a Phd?

Oh really?
...what do you call a med student that graduated at the bottom of his class?
Doctor.
And yes. He's allowed to operate on you.

Education and company position still doesn't make a man smart: it just makes him a well-learned idiot, which is just what he is.
Actions speak MUCH louder than credentials, social standing, and net worth any day of the year, as he's pretty much shown with all these absurd "solutions" he and his company and contemporaries are coming up with (You're going to plug the hole up with refuse? Really!?), and the aforementioned ignorant remark. His pathetic attempt to save his own face doesn't hide the fact that it's the largest oil spill in history. It's visible from space for hell's sake. The fact that he "has a PhD" and "is CEO of the world's 4th largest company" makes that all the more tragic. And once again, if he expects us to take him seriously after all the circus-like ridiculousness that BP (which he represents as the CEO), Halliburton and Transocean have been perpetrating, then that pretty much seals the deal.

At any rate, I can't see how you can get so uppity over one simple remark that was really meant to be more snide than anything else. Suddenly you have to prove that this shitclump is a mental giant among men? You'd think I was insulting the entire United Kingdom.

Pennzoil GT-R wrote:

Turbojett wrote:

Pennzoil GT-R wrote:

Turbojett wrote:...seriously? have you not been paying attention?
I don't think I was out of line at all.
It doesn't matter what he had to do to get in his position, CEO doesn't necessarily equal brains.

well, yes it generally does. but if being the CEO of the world's 4th largest company doesnt convince you he's a little more than a vegetable, how about a Phd?

Oh really?
...what do you call a med student that graduated at the bottom of his class?
Doctor.
And yes. He's allowed to operate on you.

Education and company position still doesn't make a man smart: it just makes him a well-learned idiot, which is just what he is.
Actions speak MUCH louder than credentials, social standing, and net worth any day of the year, as he's pretty much shown with all these absurd "solutions" he and his company and contemporaries are coming up with (You're going to plug the hole up with refuse? Really!?), and the aforementioned ignorant remark. His pathetic attempt to save his own face doesn't hide the fact that it's the largest oil spill in history. It's visible from space for hell's sake. The fact that he "has a PhD" and "is CEO of the world's 4th largest company" makes that all the more tragic. And once again, if he expects us to take him seriously after all the circus-like ridiculousness that BP (which he represents as the CEO), Halliburton and Transocean have been perpetrating, then that pretty much seals the deal.

At any rate, I can't see how you can get so uppity over one simple remark that was really meant to be more snide than anything else. Suddenly you have to prove that this shitclump is a mental giant among men? You'd think I was insulting the entire United Kingdom.

i dont give a shit what country he is from. im just pointing out what a fucking idiot it makes you look to say someone who has been so successful is stupid.

Turbojett wrote:

Pennzoil GT-R wrote:

Turbojett wrote:

Pennzoil GT-R wrote:

Turbojett wrote:...seriously? have you not been paying attention?
I don't think I was out of line at all.
It doesn't matter what he had to do to get in his position, CEO doesn't necessarily equal brains.

well, yes it generally does. but if being the CEO of the world's 4th largest company doesnt convince you he's a little more than a vegetable, how about a Phd?

Oh really?
...what do you call a med student that graduated at the bottom of his class?
Doctor.
And yes. He's allowed to operate on you.

Education and company position still doesn't make a man smart: it just makes him a well-learned idiot, which is just what he is.
Actions speak MUCH louder than credentials, social standing, and net worth any day of the year, as he's pretty much shown with all these absurd "solutions" he and his company and contemporaries are coming up with (You're going to plug the hole up with refuse? Really!?), and the aforementioned ignorant remark. His pathetic attempt to save his own face doesn't hide the fact that it's the largest oil spill in history. It's visible from space for hell's sake. The fact that he "has a PhD" and "is CEO of the world's 4th largest company" makes that all the more tragic. And once again, if he expects us to take him seriously after all the circus-like ridiculousness that BP (which he represents as the CEO), Halliburton and Transocean have been perpetrating, then that pretty much seals the deal.

At any rate, I can't see how you can get so uppity over one simple remark that was really meant to be more snide than anything else. Suddenly you have to prove that this shitclump is a mental giant among men? You'd think I was insulting the entire United Kingdom.

i dont give a shit what country he is from. im just pointing out what a fucking idiot it makes you look to say someone who has been so successful is stupid.

Again I don't feel I was out of line, but here:
He's a damn FOOL.
As are you for making such a big deal over absolutely nothing.
is that better?
back to the topic at hand:
Again, I don't care HOW "successful" he is, I don't care where he went to school, what degree he has, what company he heads, or how high it is on the economic ladder. None of that matters.
When he's downplaying this as small, and insignificant, and coming up with laughably insufficient methods of fixing a problem he (and the company he represents) didn't care enough about to prevent in the first place:
IT MAKES HIM LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT.

And as far as you're concerned: chewing my ass over a snide remark meant to elicit nothing more than a chuckle, and clinging to it like a pit bull with a porkchop just so you can be right--when in reality, continuing such an argument would be reaching the ridiculousness displayed by this FOOL--makes you, and indeed the both of us, look just as foolish and idiotic.
I'm taking the high road on this one. I'm finished arguing. This argument is STUPID.
Now for fuck's sake, get off your high horse and shut the hell up.