guardian.co.uk — As names go, the First Exploitation Company sounds like an inspired slight dreamed up by an angry anti-oil campaigner. In fact, it was the original title, coined in 1903, of the troubled company we now know as BP. But then, public relations have never been its strong point.
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a2fanJun 16, 2010
They'll be back.
netlugerJun 16, 2010
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i8beefJun 16, 2010
Yeah, cause those missing subsidies won't just be passed on to the consumer... We'd end up paying a lot more for gas. Wouldn't really hurt the oil companies any.It WOULD however sort of give every one ELSE an interest in researching a competing alternative...
shallotJun 16, 2010
but not gone...these roaches don't die easy....
johnnysoftwareJun 18, 2010
Okay, but the how many US citizens after buying the line, "we should drill our own ourselves" in other words, "eliminate red tape restricting offshore drilling" or words to that effect bothered to check up on what companies were winning the bids - US or foriegn?I did, and it was clearly foreign companies. American companies barely made the list. They were a small minorityBP might be villains in a lot of people's minds. But in reality, they were our agents in a transaction. We did not care what the balance of that transaction would be, who would win up pocketing the bulk of the profits, what the possible risks were - we really did not even care who was doing it.As a people we were not asking the right questions, and so we go what we were asking for. Not a very good deal for us.
kendalJun 20, 2010
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