Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On BP?

From the AP:

BP said Monday it has now spent $2 billion responding to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
And with no end yet in sight, that number is expected to keep rising.
BP PLC agreed last week to set up a $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the disaster on the Gulf coast. The company said Monday it has so far paid out $105 million to 32,000 claimants. Its shares were down 4 percent Monday in early trading in London at $5.12.
The news came as teams drilling the relief wells designed to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf continue a daunting task - hit a target roughly the size of a salad plate about three miles below the water's surface.
If the workers aboard Transocean Ltd.'s Development Driller II or its sister rig DDIII miss or move too slowly, oil will keep pouring into the sea.
No one on the rig has done this before because these deep sea interventions are so rare.
Still, the workers said they're confident they can stop the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Avian Real Estate.

H/T: Salon.com

BP's Culture Of Incompetence & Irresponsibility.

BP's BS runs as deep as the oil plumes from their exploding rig.

From Mother Jones:

If we were to list all of the disastrous exploits in BP's recent history, this list would run a lot longer than a top 10. Here are a few of the worst hits. A 2005 explosion at the company's Texas City refinery killed 15 workers and injured 170 others. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined the company $21 million for safety failures that led to that explosion, and the Department of Justice fined the company another $50 million. But even after that, the company continued to flout safety precautions—prompting OSHA to levy another $87 million fine last year. DOJ also fined BP $20 million for Clean Water Act violations stemming from a March 2006 major oil pipeline spill that dumped 200,000 gallons of oil into Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. OSHA fined BP another $3 million just last March for safety violations at an Ohio refinery. And since the Deepwater explosion, it's emerged that the company cut corners and ignored warnings about the rig before the disaster, in which 11 workers died. But BP still hasn't learned its lesson: It's exposing clean-up workers to dangerous chemical dispersants without adequate safety equipment.

Read about 9 more of BP's 10 biggest screw-ups here.

(More) BP BS.

Billions and billions in profits, and when they f#cked up, BP turned to...golf balls to plug the leaking well.

Isn't that a little like turning to Tiger Woods for marriage counseling?

Spill, Baby, Spill.