Carbon Dioxide per capita (most recent) by country.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_pol_car_dio_per_cap-pollution-carbon-dioxide-per-capita

The USA is ranked as being the worlds highest polluter PER PERSON in the world, you beat the UK by a factor of TWO.

BP is not a British company, it is a multinational corperation.

Feel free to hammer BP all you like, I hate them also – but we would prefer it if you’re media/president did not deliberatly exaggerate the “British” section in an attempt to move the blame away from you’re own contractors.

It was built my Americans, run by Americans, saftly checked by Americans but owned by BP, a multinational company.

I dispise oil companise, but let’s not forget that the USA is far from innocent.

EG : The Bhopal disaster

The Bhopal disaster (also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy) is the world’s worst industrial catastrophe.

It is estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people have permanent injuries. Reported symptoms are eye problems, respiratory difficulties, immune and neurological disorders, cardiac failure secondary to lung injury, female reproductive difficulties and birth defects among children born to affected women

A politician does not pick words randomly. They are a very tuned marketing machine.

All this finger pointing is counter-productive.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1287226/GULF-OIL-SPILL-Whys-BP-taking-blame.html

So why is nothing said about TransOcean / Haliburton etc

Why let the facts spoil a good story

I live on the Gulf Coast and no, it is NOT xenophobic to blame this UK-based (but obviously multinational) company for malfeasance.

Along with the ocean, they broke my only asset too, my house value (which was already tanking thanks to the housing crash). So I can’t be too concerned about stock investments, frankly. There is always a risk with investment, which I guess I’m finding out by buying a house on the coast of a broken freaking ocean.

I know that many Americans work for BP as I remember when they merged with Amoco because of the ads they ran. I would assume that, if you looked at upper management, most are British, though. But ultimately: it doesn’t matter. I don’t buy that if this was a completely American company the rhetoric wouldn’t be the same. Dude, THE OCEAN IS BROKE.

I would like you to show me 5 examples of American media or American politicians saying, right up (not implying) anti-British things regarding this situation. We certainly do have an issue with being gross about foreigners in this country, but usually just brown ones. As a country, we rarely have anti-foreign sentiments toward countries full of white people, like Britain. Plus, we think your accent is cute.

Also, how can it be racist to be against someone because of their accent? There’s a different word for that, friend, because it doesn’t have anything to do with race.

I, personally, am not the largest polluter on the planet, so I can say what I like about BP. All Western countries share the blame for being major polluters and users of resources. We happen to be a very big country, so America is responsible for a lot of it. But you’re going to tell me that, overall, the UK isn’t just as polluty? You just pollute less because there are fewer of you.

Also, your comments about Israel are silly.

The company is 1/3 owned by american investors and 2/3 by british investors and by investors I mean pension funds, Calpers in California. A lot of pension funds must invest in the top 100 shares in the UK in propoportion to their size. BP was a huge company and so it counted for a substantial part of their portfolios.

It is listed in both the United States and in the UK, but 3 times as many of its employees are American as are British.

We still dont’ know the causes of the blowout, the company managing the well is American, the company which designed the various safeguards is American, however under the standard contracts BP are liable for any accidents, which is standard operating procedure for the industry.

So basically multiple safeguards have failed and BP are trying to clean up the mess.

Every time Obama says “British Petroleum” instead of “BP”, he means dirty disgusting Brits are trying to poison pure innocent America, thats the nicer view, because he could also mean “dirty disgusting foreigners”. And when an american politician says that everytime the British CEO opens his mouth, he can’t trust him because of his accent, it seem and how can I put this, RACIST. The question that matters is whether the US would treat an american oil company the same, interfering in its dividend payment, calling for its senior executive to be sacked, and the general understanding is no.

As for the accusation that “BP broke the ocean”, seriously. The largest polluter on the planet, with some of the laxest safeguards, with a history of environmental abuse in both civilian and military areas actually accuses BP of breaking the ocean?

Pot, kettle, black.

Also the Israel comments seemed more than a little racist.

Since despite your transnationalsim you persist in adhering to the identity that you are not Japanense and not honor bound to suicide, we can return to the days of firing squad.

PARTICULARLY SINCE YOU DIDN’T EVEN BOTHER TO HAVE A DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN THAT EVEN MY FUCKING LIBRARY HAS GOT.

You may die now. All of you.