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To: maceng2 who wrote (73533)	5/17/2010 9:42:51 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Tony Hayward did well in that press conference. <BP should have already anticipated these stories, and made sufficient signals that if anything has been done wrong they really are truly sorry, and are going to impress us how they are going to change for the better. Have you seen any signs of remorse or willingness to change yet? > There are altogether too many apologies these days. Everyone is apologizing for everything - if they didn't do it themselves and they don't have to spend money. For example we have people wanting apologies for slavery when nobody alive had anything to do with it and there are no victims of the slavery still alive. What's more the descendants of slaves can count their lucky stars that their ancestors were removed from Africa because being born in the USA is a LOT better than being born in Zimbabwe or Niger or Sierra Leone. I'm not in the habit of apologizing for things I didn't do wrong. BP has presumed that they probably have some liability so has spent a fortune on stopping the flow and cleaning up. That's reasonable enough. And understandable. They don't know why the well went wrong but they do know there's a huge mess and it needs cleaning up. An investigation will probably find the causes of the problem. Meanwhile, it's sensible to fix the problem that exists right now. If they did nothing, presuming that they were not at fault, but were then found to have been largely responsible for the failure, they'd really be in trouble. It's all a storm in a teacup really. Mostly people are wanting to posture, strut and show how environmentally concerned they are. The media are trying to make a great story about the spilling oil, but the only real story is in the loss of the lives and platform. The economic loss is serious too. It looks as though the whole thing will be a non story in a short time. Just another industrial accident among thousands. 5000 dead chasing non-existent WMDs in Iraq [and I explained at the time that there weren't any]. That's just the COW, not the Iraqis. Not to mention $1 trillion or so. The cost of the well destruction = $1 billion or so with 20 dead [near enough]. So it's one thousandth as bad as Iraq. Mqurice