Gee, Sure Am Glad BP Considers Us "Small People" At All

[twyacht]

Nice phrase,  right up there with CEO Haywood saying he can't wait to get his "life back".....

Scumbag.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100616/pl_afp/usoilpollutionenvironmentbpchairman_20100616190452

 Wed Jun 16, 3:04 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) – BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said Wednesday the British energy giant cared about the fate of the "small people" hit by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, vowing to look after all affected.

Emerging from White House talks with President Barack Obama, Svanberg said the British energy giant had "always met our obligations and responsibilities."

"We have made clear from the first moment of this tragedy that we will live up to all our legitimate responsibilities," Svanberg said, adding all claims for compensation would be met "swiftly and fairly."

"We will look after the people affected, and we will repair the damage to this region, the environmental damage to this region and to the economy," he added.

Obama said he had urged the BP bosses to remember when they were meeting in the boardroom to "keep in mind those individuals, that they are desperate, may lose business that have been in their families for two or three generations."

Svanberg agreed, saying: "We care about the small people."

I think I'll stick with any other gas company than BP for my truck.

We'll see how us "small people" measure up....

Pompous ass...

[david86440]

Well, aren't we!

[twyacht]

I guess when you make $93,000,000 per day, AFTER overhead and expenses.....and have $7,000,000,000 that's "B" as in billion, cash on hand,..

Your right.....

[fightingquaker13]

Trouble is, these small people are Gulf Coast fishermen. These, in my considerable experience with the breed, are dangerous folks to cross under the best of circumstances. Push the wrong one too far, to point he feels he's ruined and has nothing left to lose? Well, billionaire or no, I wouldn't want get within 500 yards of him. Farther if he's been practicing. All that money won't mean squat if a seriously pissed off redneck is having just one good day.
FQ13 who's just sayin'

[deepwater]

I thought 'pompous ass' was the same as 'British'
just saying...

deepwater

oh yeah, if it makes anyone feel better, just remember, these 'little people' kicked Britain's ass during the revolution... 

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[Johnny Bravo]

The gubmint is gonna control which "little people" get money Give me a break.

[tombogan03884]

What a bunch of a--holes.
All of a sudden even you people are heeding the word of that Communist co$ksucker who usurped the White house through vote fraud.
I don't believe there even is an oil leak. Only ones I've heard about it from are proven liars, MSM, Obummer, and other Socialist scum.
But you all believe what you want.

[mortdooley]

 I think he was saying small business people but his English ain't so good, but I could be wrong.

[ericire12]

He was just trying to say "the little guy"..... I think it was nothing more then a foreigner not really understanding what he was saying.

[Woody]

 All of us 'small people' vote, he forgot that. VOTE EM ALL OUT!