Hey at 80,300 employees, what's 11 deaths in the grand scheme of things? I mean statistically speaking......annnnddd that's where they fuck up...statistically.
When everything becomes a numbers game, then everything becomes a number. The end of the day is measured against the bottom line, if the bottom line is positive...then while a momentary bump is noted and reviewed, it does not carry weight against the goal sought or hoped for.
Imagine if an ice cream company took that stance, "Hey, we sold to over 3.1 million people this year and ONLY 9 ecoli related deaths and 132 related illnesses occurred. What an outstanding year!" If that tone, hit the press, that company would probably lose it's ass the following fiscal year. But that ice cream company is smart enough to know the deaths and illnesses already affected their business and there's know way in hell they'd promote those deaths and illnesses as a positive in contrast, because it would affect their sales.
BP is in the unique position of knowing their take on statistical safety record's CAN piss off a buying public...but hey, guess what?...It doesn't matter. You'll use their oil, or a subsidiaries, because you have to. There's is no realistic alternative to their product that the average person can switch to or just stop using altogether, to affect the companies business...that doesn't cost more than the average American can afford. If you stopped driving in protest, the cab you took still profits them. If you stopped using the cab and used the Bus...it still profits them. You could ride your bike, which works great in protest, except in bad weather or if your place of employment is very far away. Somewhere along the way, you'll use their product whether in gas or plastics. You think you can avoid them, but you can't.
Just think about that. It's so pervasive, it's literally like walking through a mine field, just to show your protest. With the ice cream company if they were ALL like that, you'd just stop buying their product. You do not need ice cream to function. If you sat down and tried to plot out every single thing and product you need to avoid to boycott BP...you'd have to just move to a cabin, you made, kill your own food and never use any modern medicine again, if sick...because they're in the medical industry as well.
You can try like hell, but they'll get your nickle eventually, good luck.
well don't you just paint a happy fucking picture..
