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LadyEllen -> RE: BOP recent history and BP (6/22/2010 4:44:48 AM)
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Thats interesting FlC - and yet even after the disclosure of all these testimonies, people still want to pin it on Obama? The only mistake he made as I see it, is to have trusted those advising him that it was fine to drill and the regulatory framework was not only robust but enforced and not to have discovered that those advising him may have had other motives than the good of the country in giving their advice. In the end of course, despite what some might say about that reliance, Obama is not an expert in this field (nor in many others), so he has to rely on such expert advice and the professed good faith of such advisors.
The CEO of BP - I feel sorry for him in only two respects; 1) that I am sure he was doing his best to put past working practices that led to regulatory and safety failures right, but as you say, he couldnt possibly have had the close familiarity with every situation required to ensure compliance and in any case its a worldwide endeavour likely impossible for any one person to keep on top of, 2) I am sure he never expected all this and was not recruited to handle all this - his PR department must be having nightmares every time he speaks by now. He strikes me as having been the guy who drew the short straw in what might otherwise have been a cushy little number as BP CEO, as it has been for many others before him.
In the end though the buck stops with him, just as it does with me if my company gets mixed up in some problem or other. Anyone who ever ran a group of companies with several locations will be able to tell you, you can make whatever policies you want, but in the end youre reliant on the guys on the ground and they can and will do what they like if it suits them, leaving you to carry the can; sure you can fire them, but its you that faces the firing squad .
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