Sailing, Sailing O'er The Sea of Oil

The CEO of BP in an act that is so misguided that he must be kicking himself, is stupid beyond description. Here is a company faced with a massive oil rig blow out, lives lost, a misdirected cleanup effort and a PR image that will take years to repair and what does the CEO do? Why, he goes sailing. You see, Hayward owns a racing yacht and his boat was racing so he flew out to rub elbows with the salty set of blue water yachtsmen. What a bonehead.

If he wants to start repairing the BP image, here's what I suggest.

1. Get out of the office and away from the cameras and go out with your board and all the executives in the company and don hazmat gear and start cleaning up the crud.

2. Don't make it a big deal and do it at least three days per week. Other people will see the effort and spread the word around. You don't need to do anything but show up.

3. Visit industries and businesses affected by your spill and spend money. Spend your money. Have your execs do the same thing.

4. Make a personal visit to every family who lost someone on the rig and make sure they get taken care of and compensated for the loss. Of course, you can't replace a life but you can be sure that any children will get taken care of properly.

5. Never, never, never go in front of congress again. They are a bunch of grandstanding idiots who couldn't solve a minor problem let alone a large one and you are wasting your time entertaining them. If they want to see you, have them come out to where you are working to clean up the mess where it is hitting the shore. But never answer a summons from those crooks again.

6. Every day, a BP spokesperson should be releasing news of what you have done and are actively working on. You know, if skimmers and other technology was offered, you should have taken it even though the president said no. I guarantee that he didn't know what the "Jones" act was anyway. He only resisted because of the unions and the unions could care less about anything that doesn't line their pockets with silver. Let someone sue you for taking extraordinary efforts to clean up the spilled oil.

7. In fact, forget regulations as far as environmental restrictions to cleanup methods. Let the government sue you for doing the right thing. You might lose but you will be regarded as a persecuted hero instead of a self-serving, egotistical, smug ass who only cares about himself.

8. Forget vacations and days off. You Hayward and your execs make more than enough money and get great benefits so for the next year, earn it in a meaningful way that will not only help the effort but start cleaning up the BP image.

Ok, BP. Let's see you do the right things.

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