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Originally Posted by aceventura3
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.
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Presumably the president didn't come up with the leakage rate calculations, but you seemed to blame him for their inaccuracy.
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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.
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I think you've pretty well established that the things you think are true frequently have no bearing on what actually is, so I'm not sure why you're sharing your opinion here as if it has the weight of real, factual evidence.
In reality, there is no shortage of examples of business folk who appeared responsible while they were simultaneously secretly breaking legal and/or ethical and/or safety rules. The fact that you, some guy from the internet, give BP a thumbs up for their business ethics and logical aptitude means nothing.
As it stands now, how have any BP executives suffered anything remotely harmful in the aftermath of the spill? They don't have much incentive to not cut corners. It's a gamble that they make, where if they lose, we pay, they maybe get transferred to a new market (god forbid they get fired with a multimillion dollar severance package), and BP takes a quarter or two break and then goes back to making record profits.