The BP oil spill

• 20 June 2010 at 22:09
• Politik Pop

It's been two months now that BP's oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people and letting oil flow uninterruptedly since, at a vertiginous rate that is impossible to estimate precisely. It's a real ecological cataclysm, the worst in US history (but don't worry, not of mankind history!).

BP has done everything to stop the leak but nothing works. The british firm has to recognise that it didn't properly assess neither the risks, nor the solutions. It also has to face accusations that it didn't respect security standards in order to save money. So it's trying everything it can to save its image, even by buying all the possible keywords on Google to redirect internet users to its website. It also said:

I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don't care, but that is not the case with BP. We care about the small people.

This "small people" thing has not been taken in a good way in the US. especially now that Tony Hayward, the CEO, is currently taking part of a yachting competition in England.

In a nutshell, BP doesn't need anybody to make things worse for itself.

And the other main characters of the story are getting trapped in the oil as well. The first of them is Barack Obama who keeps making speech saying "it's not right!", but only shows he can't fix it. You can't blame him: indeed, he can't do anything about it. Well yeah, he's the President of the United States, not God.

The american Congress is not spared either. This week, the lawmakers received Tony Hayward, and they couldn't stop piling on him (which is kind of easy). the funniest thing is that a Republican apologised over this "shakedown". And the Democrats replied the Republicans were trying to protect their friends the rich, and so on and so forth.

So Congress had this great idea: call actor Kevin Costner. Why? Because he owns a company that makes (and sells!) machines that can separate water from oil. Will it really work? Watch the next episode!

And when you thought the world was going really wrong, here comes Sarah Palin, on Twitter:

Gulf disaster needs divine intervention as man's efforts have been futile. Gulf lawmakers designate today Day of Prayer for solution/miracle.

Thank you Sarah. If it ever works, it will be thanks to God, and if it doesn't, it will be because of Obama!

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