Living the American Green

The crazy folks at TPM are all going hippy-dippy about the same point that we made on this site a few days back.  The whole “BP might have changed their tune on the amount of oil that was spilled and the resulting tune changing has adversely affected the response to the spill to date” thing.  They, however, put more time into it, and actually made a pretty picture.  As always, a picture is worth somewhere between 960 and 1,027 words, so we’ll count this as a long post for the tabulating of word counts in this week’s LtAG competition.

To note: the top end estimate is now greater then 60,000 barrels, which is once AGAIN a change (and significant mark up) on what we wrote last week.

Check it out:

This is a to-scale image of what is now drawn on the back of BP's CEO Tony Hayward

On hearing the news that the best and brightest minds on the case of the gulf oil spill have decided to double the estimate of how much oil has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico since this thing started, we have an important question.  At this point, it seems like a complete toss up: is this the best PR way to play this thing, or the worst?  Our heartless money driven corporate overlords started us out slow, gentle even.  But there regularly scheduled upgrades to the estimate of how much is leaking keep making things feel worse and worse.  Every time we look back there are a new number of barrels being accredited to the same picture of gushing brown stuff.  How much is a barrel, again?  (more…)

You know, BP really just got unlucky.  Could have happened to any of the giant oil-drilling behemoths that are also not doing a very careful job of checking their machinery in a desperate attempt to drive the bottom line even higher.  You almost feel bad for them, don’t you?

Yeah, neither do I. This is brilliant though:

I would add some snark to this, but it’s basically the prefect BP message.

Poor multi-national corporation.  They are closing in on a perfect 10.0 on the evil/inept scale.