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Originally Posted by Piwoslaw
I remember BP saying that "BP now stands for Beyond Petroleum". This was somewhere in the late 1990's/early 2000's, when BP (as did Shell and few other oil companies) started buying RE businesses, like PV producers.
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You are probably correct.
My tappage was mainly directed at the political language expressed at 'BP' for the spill, it was kind of like we in Britain were to blame, and were profiting from the oil and didn't care about those folks in the gulf.
But actually we had little involvement at all and it was invoked so Obama and co could claim it was a 'furren' company doing all the damage. BP is as much US owned (by those people who provide your pensions and health insurance etc.) as it is British, like most oil companies.
It was a minor issue in the great scheme of things - especially the disaster itself - but one where politicians proved what w*nkers they can be.