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Originally Posted by filtherton
"I know you are but what am I" is the best thing the committee could come up with?
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I think I can guess your position: we should trust the president when he absolves BP of blame, but we shouldn't trust the president when we have an opportinity to make him look bad.
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The President did not write the report, nor was he involved in doing the work that went into the report. It is true I don't trust the President, but I don't trust BP either, and I wrote that.
However, I pointed out early on that the suggestion that BP cut corners due to a profit motive did not add up. The logic of - let's save a few dollars and put our entire company at risk- is not what responsible business people do. And there was no evidence that BP was run by incompetent or irresponsible business people. It was clear to me that the accident was the result of a series human errors and no one was motivated to make errors because of profit. There is no doubt that management has to be held accountable and is at fault for not minimizing the risk of human error. Hindsight is always 20/20. Government regulators also dropped the ball. There should be accountability for errors and the lack of controls, but the knee-jerk reaction that the drive for profits is at the root of every negative corporate occurrence is overly simplistic.