From Reuters:
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In a conciliatory statement outside the White House, BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg apologized to the American people on behalf of BP. "I do thank you for the patience that you have during this difficult time," he said.
"I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies who don't care, but that is not the case in BP, we care about the small people," Svanberg said.
Svanberg said BP's board had agreed not to pay dividends this year and promised to make sure damage claims were handled swiftly and fairly.
BP said it would cut four quarters of dividends, significantly reduce its investment program and sell $10 billion of assets to cover the $20 billion fund.
So the residents and displaced workers are "small people". M'kay.
Any bets the $10 billion in "assets" really means "we'll just hike the price of gasoline to cover the $10 billion and still make a tidy profit. Pip-pip! Cheerio!"
Anyone wanna have fun with
one of the big people?
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