Some interesting background information to the BP oil spill.

  • the contract was American
  • the contractors were American
  • the subcontractors were American
  • the platform was American
  • the failed blowout preventer was American
  • BP is now simply the brand name for a corporation which is 40% American (Amoco merger) / 40% British / 20% others

Still, don’t let a few inconvenient things like facts get in the way of a handy little bit of xenophobic scapegoating.

When I Googled “oil spill” every search result returned was an article about how “BP buys oil spill keywords”.

Does this mean BP will now implode like if you Google “Google”.