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Louisiana isn't the only place that has shrimp...per BP Rep..

ckDOG

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So, I take it the next time a disruptive hurricane is in the Gulf and my fuel prices skyrocket ~25%, I'm allowed to respond "the gulf isn't the only place that has oil"?

What a dick. That's prime time arrogance.
 
snoopdog

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but now they are bleeding oil and the prices don't spike. They know there would be a riot if they raised prices right now.
 
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A1DOG

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never had one. The opportunities these guys have had to make stupid remarks in tough situations has been greatly increased and the media never takes anything out of context. But you have to be very careful how you say everything. People want someone to blame and he gave them a target. BTW,in case you didn't know....

Lamar McKay
<span class="grey">Job Title: Chairman and President BP America, Inc
Education: Degree in Petroleum Engineering (Magna *** Laude) from Mississippi State University and an Executive MBA from Indiana University. </span>
 
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rebville

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<dl>

April 30:</p></dl><dl>
“What the hell did we do to deserve this?” </p>
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May 3:</p></dl><dl>
“This is not our accident, but it’s our responsibility.”</p>
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May 14:</p></dl><dl>
“The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.“</p>
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May 18:</p></dl><dl>
“I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest. It is impossible to say and we will mount, as part of the aftermath, a very detailed environmental assessment but everything we can see at the moment suggests that the overall environmental impact will be very, very modest.”</p>
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May 18:</p></dl><dl>
“I do feel that we have, for the first time, turned the corner in this challenge.”</p>
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May 25:</p></dl><dl>
“I think this is clearly a major reputational issue for BP.”</p>
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May 26:</p></dl><dl>
“The operation is proceeding as we planned it.”</p>
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May 5:</p>

Asked for examples of illegitimate claims, he said: “I could give you lots of examples. This is America — come on. We’re going to have lots of illegitimate claims. We all know that.”

All of these from Tony Hayward. Yessir, the one man PR nightmare from BP who happens to be the CEO. People are blaming BP as a whole. Just so happens that the public is going to cast guilt by association, so no one is safe.

Furthermore, in regards to Lamar McKay, he should be in London kicking that limey bastard in his 17ing nuts every minute on the minute that this mess goes on. Mr. Mckay surely understands the major damage being done to the coasts and wetlands of the gulf (you know, because he went to YOUR SCHOOL in OUR STATE). I hope he can relay the urgency of cleaning this mess up and making things right with all that are affected, because it doesn't seem as if BP is all that concerned about it.</p></dl>
 
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patdog

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The hurricanes shut down the refineries and the distribution system. For all the oil that's spilled into the Gulf, this is only one well. In the scheme of things, from a supply standpoint, this is nothing.
 
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patdog

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It was an inflammatory remark. If I was his boss, I would fire himimmediately just for sheer stupidity.</p>
 
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patdog

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rebville said:
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“The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.“</p>
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Yeah, if the oil was disbursed over the entire Gulf, this wouldn't be such a huge deal. But the entire Gulf is 615,000 square miles and the oil is concentrated in about 1,800 square miles of it. The oil is about 340 times more concentrated than that argument would lead you to believe.
 
jakldawg

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I hope this doesn't affect his bottom line and Bulldog Club donations? If anything, I'm even more pissed off knowing that somebody so high up in that POS company trashing the gulf is associated with my university. But good for you, standing up for poor little misunderstood BP.
 
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If he were a Rebel alumnus, I'd still hope he, that bastard CEO, and the rest of the people involved in this went straight to hell.

See: Scruggs, Dickie.
 
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patdog

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And Chernobyl wasn't so bad after all either. After all, the USSR was a very, very big country and the overall radiation for the whole country didn't go up much at all.
 
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MrHooch

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A1DOG said:
never had one. The opportunities these guys have had to make stupid remarks in tough situations has been greatly increased and the media never takes anything out of context. But you have to be very careful how you say everything. People want someone to blame and he gave them a target. BTW,in case you didn't know....

Lamar McKay
<span class="grey">Job Title: Chairman and President BP America, Inc
Education: Degree in Petroleum Engineering (Magna *** Laude) from Mississippi State University and an Executive MBA from Indiana University. </span>
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chances are that my paycheck and yours are not directly tied to the dumbass comments we may or may not make... If I were this ******* I would shut my mouth and find somewhere dark to hide for a very, very long time. I'm not one to up and boycott every little thing, but I don't believe I'll be buying from BP anymore unless it's the last gas station for the next 150 miles and I'm driving through a desert on empty...
 
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Agentdog

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Mississippi State University and it's people......always on the wrong end of every 17n thing.
 
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brantleyjones

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a well that would not have been put on production for years. From a supply standpoint, it means literally and exactly nothing.

They did, however, shut down some other production platforms due to the fumes. Remember the "SWAT" teams?
 
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dumped into the gulf from South America, Central America, Mexico, and the South Eastern United States? Seriously, how much raw sewage, chemical runoff and contaminants has been pumped into the gulf for the past 500 years? If the oyster beds and shrimp and sea food has lived through the millions of tons of raw sewage over the centuries, why would a little oil be the apocalypse of the gulf? The sky is not falling, yet.

I think it's a breath of fresh air to hear a person in the BP's CEO's position to speak his mind and have everything he says be so politically correct that you know it's bull. I have gotten sick and tired of everyone being politically correct and only saying what they think everyone wants to hear.
 
Maroon Eagle

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rugbdawg

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wrong and ridiculous. He was answering a question about whether or not it would be SAFE to eat shrimp in the restaurants across the country. There was no question about the costs involved. As PART of his response in saying it should be safe to eat shrimps in restaurants he said that Louisiana isn't the only place that has shrimp.

http://thehayride.com/201...ll-the-latest/#more-3612
 
Maroon Eagle

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...unfortunately for Prescott, the context he speaks of is in his mind:
He claims that he was answering a question he believed was about
whether or not it were safe to eat shrimp at Gulf Coat restaurants. He
responded by saying that one must check with local officials to get the
straight story there, and that “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has
shrimp.”</p>

The implication, in his mind, was that Mississippi, Alabama &
Florida also must deal with this, and perhaps there are other, larger,
problems facing us all, whoever the culprit.</p>
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</p>You'll note that Prescott admits that he did not state out loud that Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida also have to deal with it-- it was, as he said, only in his mind.

Since we are not mind readers, at best for Prescott, it's a major gaffe because the spill affects Louisiana's $2.5 billion dollar commercial fishing industry (and in his mind-- maybe-- those of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida).1 The problem for him (and BP) is that anything he says will just be seen as just the usual damage control.

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1And let's not forget about the ecosystem either.
 
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