What's amazing is that after the
Piper Alpha oil platform disaster in the North Sea that killed 167 workers, all companies operating on European leases had to conform to stringent safety standards, no matter what flag they were flying. This includes BP. So BP has one set of standards for operating in Europe and one set for operating in the U.S. And when they went on a cost cutting binge that included safety standards and personnel, they were able to cut much deeper in the U.S.
That asshat in Congress should be apologizing to
me for letting them slide like that.
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07-14-2010, 08:36 PM
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