Exclusive: Robert Dudley: ‘We Are Going to Change’

Change? Like Chicago change?

Isn’t is wonderful how everyone always closes the gate after the horse gets out?!?

OH, BS BP

Change we can believe in. After Mr. Obama, every candidate should be banned from using this lying phrase.

BP is putting a southern American in charge to what? Say “We feel your pain”??!! NOT. They still are nickle and diming people on claims. Putting them out of business. There’s probably millions of gallons of oil under the surface that may not appear for weeks or months on the beaches. Meanwhile the seafood industry is bust. Who knows what the pollution is doing to the Gulf. Watch. BP will try and slither away without setting up the $20 billion escrow fund saying “There’s no more oil – we’ve cleaned it all up or it’s been dispersed by waves and weather”. It would serve BP well if they stayed and paid out the rest of the claims in FULL – don’t let people down. Who knows the ultimate devastation to families – divorce, suicide, business failure. BP should be banned from the Gulf forever.

Spread the tax wealth! There’s more where that came from….Obama, Pelosi, Reid.

Just to play devil’s advocate, I can’t understand what BP really did wrong, apart from use the cheapest contractors – Transocean and Haliburton – who are two of the most widely used offshore contractors in the industry.
Isn’t it these companies who need to change? Very much doubt these companies operated much differently when working for BP compared to working for everyone else.

It is a fact that, until it merged with Amoco in 1998, BP had one of the best safety records in the industry. It is also a fact that Amoco had one of the worst. Europe still remembers the Amoco Cadiz disaster of 1978. Texans still remember the Texas City refinery explosion of 2005 – a legacy Amoco site with a documented history of problems going back to 1991.
The current oil spill has the fingerprints of ex-Amoco people all over it. Amoco engineers, Amoco subcontractors and the whole operation directed from Amoco’s old headquarters in Houston, Texas.
So now the former BP is being forced out because he wasn’t very good at spin, to be replaced by a former Amoco man. Smart move.
And by the way – for those who insist on using out-of-date corporatre identities when referring to BP – Amoco is short for American Oil Company.

The trick for BP is not about safety, it is about risk assessment. Since this company is so global there is no way that will ever change. The previous CEO presided over the Texas disaster where 15 men died, Tony Hayward steps in and an obnoxious amount of disaster ensues, now Dudley which by all accounts looks like BP, quacks like BP, and is BP and will not change anything and is nothing more than the puppet of the Board of BP. I would be impressed if the board of directors was cast aside especially the chairman of the board. But lets not forget the rime ticks for oil companies, battery technology that competes with oil and e-cars are coming fast. I hope Obama can get SBA reform going and spur on innovation to counter this “New World Order” BP.

And when is BP going to fund the compensation escrow account? Talk is cheap, where’s the $$$.

And eject companies like BP from our shores. You are not welcome here. Time has come for America to step up to the plate and buy out BP’s assets here in the US not as franchises but as foreclosed properties. Lis pendents on all those law suits, come on judges it is time to repay America and give back America her legacy of business. Made in America for America.

Dudley, a Mississippi native and the first American to head the company, has been leading BP’s efforts in the Gulf. He will take over as CEO October 1.