Jambo
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Fucking hippies.
Do they know where pile comes from?!
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Sunz
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I kind of agree with the Greenpeace people really, all bp care about is how much money they lost and how much this clean up cost will be for the oil spill.
Augustus Kwembe !
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Sunz
I kind of agree with the Greenpeace people really, all bp care about is how much money they lost and how much this clean up cost will be for the oil spill.
Thats because they arent a charity.
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emicen
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But thats the point, this doesnt affect BP because they dont own the filling stations and the pricing of fuel means they may well make more out of this.
Say you sell 100,000 litres, BP will sell you it at £1 a litre, so their refining & distributing arm gets £100k out of you. You're contracted to do take that much and if you only sell 80,000 litres, you may well be liable to pay £1.10 a litre. So yes, BP lose £12k. Blip to them. The forecourt owners just lost their margin on the fuel and will really feel the pain.
Two brothers who worked at Shell with my dad made a bloody killing making this sort of problem go away for forecourt owners in the 70's/80's.
Greenpeace have set out to hurt BP, they've managed to flick BP's ear but stabbed local retailers in the back.
This whole disaster is nowhere near entirely BP's fault either, but since one of the main contractors involved is the same one who won most of the oil contracts out of Iraq its not surprising their blame has been minimal.
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RichR
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I fucking hate Greenpeace more than any other chairty/organisation on earth
They're fine ones to speak, spilling diesel in Alaska whilst doing a tank transfer on board one of their ships whilst being pursued by the U.S. coastguard. Then using fairy liquid to try and disperse it before it was seen.
All nicely covered up by the fact that their assets are held by a different fronting company, which Greenpeace "rents" equipment off. That way if there are any issues, the front company gets the blame and the operator, ie Greenpeace can blame poor maintenance by the owner company and walk away with their reputation. But its the same fucking people
They caused me over a year of sleepless nights and bullshit; working away from home 3/4 nights a week for 4 months because they're the biggest bunch of shit cunts
[Edited on 28-07-2010 by LiVe LeE]
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Jambo
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Need a wash and a reality check tbh
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Gary
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One of the comments posted on thier website
'BP Blockade
Normally I will use Shell but from tomorrow until further notice I will use only BP. You tossers.
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Classic
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
I fucking hate Greenpeace more than any other chairty/organisation on earth
They're fine ones to speak, spilling diesel in Alaska whilst doing a tank transfer on board one of their ships whilst being pursued by the U.S. coastguard. Then using fairy liquid to try and disperse it before it was seen.
All nicely covered up by the fact that their assets are held by a different fronting company, which Greenpeace "rents" equipment off. That way if there are any issues, the front company gets the blame and the operator, ie Greenpeace can blame poor maintenance by the owner company and walk away with their reputation. But its the same fucking people
They caused me over a year of sleepless nights and bullshit; working away from home 3/4 nights a week for 4 months because they're the biggest bunch of shit cunts
[Edited on 28-07-2010 by LiVe LeE]
That the diesel spill in Adak?
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RichR
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iirc yeah; and then throwing fucking fairy liquid on it - very environmentally friendly!
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RichR
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Biggest bunch of hypocrites ever!
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adiohead
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quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
iirc yeah; and then throwing fucking fairy liquid on it - very environmentally friendly!
you sure it wasn't Ecover? 
ps. Where did you hear this?
[Edited on 28-07-2010 by adiohead]
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RichR
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it was Tesco's Value tbh; I don't knwo which brand it was, it was generic - as a degreaseing agent, it works to break down the diesel particles which float at 1molecule thickness, hence even 1litre of diesel on top of water can look like an oil slick - imagine 1000s of gallons and then getting the deck hands to throw washing up liquid on it!
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Jay
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Originally posted by lostboy
Someone should start a "Green peace can get to FUCK" group on facebook, I would but I don't know how to.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-peace-can-get-to-FUCK/113664808685838?ref=ts
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Gary
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I'd join but im not on bookface
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Matt H
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quote:
Originally posted by emicen
This whole disaster is nowhere near entirely BP's fault either, but since one of the main contractors involved is the same one who won most of the oil contracts out of Iraq its not surprising their blame has been minimal.
Who's that then?
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emicen
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt H
quote:
Originally posted by emicen
This whole disaster is nowhere near entirely BP's fault either, but since one of the main contractors involved is the same one who won most of the oil contracts out of Iraq its not surprising their blame has been minimal.
Who's that then?
Halliburton.
Very big political donor in the US, cleared up on Iraqi contracts, now implicated in this disaster:
http://industry.bnet.com/energy/10004219/gulf-oil-spill-whos-to-blame-bp-halliburton-and-the-feds-are-all-implicated/
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stuartmitchell
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Originally posted by Colin
Is the forecourt part of business not franchise owned anyway with BP only Skimming a small cut, tiny on the grand scheme of things profit wise??
Yeah mate, only actually make 1p in every litre but that probably adds up a fair bit but it's the food, magazines etc where they make there ££££
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stuartmitchell
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quote:
Originally posted by emicen
quote:
Originally posted by Matt H
quote:
Originally posted by emicen
This whole disaster is nowhere near entirely BP's fault either, but since one of the main contractors involved is the same one who won most of the oil contracts out of Iraq its not surprising their blame has been minimal.
Who's that then?
Halliburton.
Very big political donor in the US, cleared up on Iraqi contracts, now implicated in this disaster:
http://industry.bnet.com/energy/10004219/gulf-oil-spill-whos-to-blame-bp-halliburton-and-the-feds-are-all-implicated/
To be fair, I would say the spill is more Transoceans fault than anyones (and they have got off very very lightly). The BOP wasn't fit to sit on top of a bottle of fizzy coke never mind a well like this. Transocean employ Subsea Engineers to maintain and service said BOP. If it wasnt fit to be down there they should of retrieved it and started again.
However I do believe that the BP Company Man may of kicked off at this suggstion, probs a week worth of work and £7 Million lost 
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Matt H
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All of Transoceans findings are reported to BP & they ultimately make the decisions
I'd heard some stuff from guys in the region that they'd told them to stop & it had been ignored
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stuartmitchell
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I heard that too mate, apparently the bottles on the BOP are meant to be full with some kind of fluid but were empty. BP Company man was advised they should retrieve the Riser and BOP but as that would take a week and millions of ££££ he ordered them to bash on. Apparently.
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