CEO's: Cunts Entrenched in Oil

I found out today that BP CEO Tony Hayward was so busy trying to correct his company's colossal fuck-up in the gulf that he had attended a yacht race. Apparently, corporate elitists are either too pathologically self-obsessed or simply too stupid to understand how callous they really act.

I might be able to tolerate Hayward's shocking insensitivity if it wasn't so clear that he and his company were still doing business as usual. Case in point: Hayward's testimony to Congress. Stonewalling, pure and simple. Based on his testimony, he's either the most inept ceo in the oil industry--a possibility I'm more than willing to entertain--or BP made a calculated decision to obstruct any congressional investigation in the oil spill and the disaster on the rig itself. Either way, it's indefensible.

Let's be honest though, the congressional interrogation of BP is most likely little more than a obligatory hand-wringing. Firm regulatory standards need to be established and enforced admisitration to administration. The reason why prior to this spill oil companies were allowed to do anything in the gulf is because there has been no continuity of environmental or energy police. Another reason that comes to mind is that the oil industry has economically handcuffed the people of the gulf coastal region. This is why Mary Landrieu doesn't have the guts to stand up to BP. And I don't mean by demanding they pay for their own mistake. I mean by demanding they cease oil production until it is verifiably clear that their drilling standards are safe. As long as senators like Landrieu are financially tied to the oil industry, real regulatory progress will be dificult.