Think you hate BP as much as you possibly can? Wanna bet?

For years when I drove by BP's office building in Anchorage I paid little to no attention to it.

It was just another oil company with offices located here in town and whose money probably helped to pay for the road I was driving on. In fact I have met a number of their employees and found them to be just like everybody else.

However after the recent events in the Gulf of Mexico I find myself envisioning the executives that run the company as versions of Snidely Whiplash, with dark cloaks, pencil thin mustaches, and evil eyebrows.

Unfair you say?  Over the top you claim?  Unnecessarily hurtful you argue?

Well what else do you call a company that kidnaps it's own workers and threatens to hold them until they sign statements that could be used against them in court.

Or who hire Jefferson Parish sheriffs to keep reporters away from the local wildlife refuge.

Or what do you call them when you learn that the dispersant they have been pumping into the Gulf for over a month now to break down the oil and keep it out of sight has the same molecular structure as anti-freeze.

And what do you call a company that only released the now famous video of the oil flowing from the broken pipe after first denying that anybody had asked it for it despite numerous requests form media outlets and the White House?

And now we have BP Managing Director Robert Dudley complaining that the lack of trust "hurts a little"! (H/T to AKMuckraker)



Is this asshole kidding me?  There is NOBODY more devastated by this than BP? Should we ask the fishermen and locals living along the Louisiana coast if that is true?

Assuming you did NOT hate BP before, how do you feel about them now?