It's BP. Has not been British Petroleum for years. It's a multi-national corporation with the largest single percentage of shares owned by an American bank. (JP Morgan and Chase own 27.74%) As a company, it still sucks and has made some incredibly bad decisions, but calling it by its old name is, I feel, a way people are using to attribute blame to the UK for this appalling disaster. Whether that's oversensitive or not, it troubles me, and I don't feel like not speaking up this time.
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Date: 2010-05-30 02:25 pm (UTC)