So after apologizing for displaying brazen insensitivity toward the families of the 11 workers who were killed in the oil rig explosion last month, BP CEO Tony Hayward is at it again – putting his foot in the mouth.
This week, BP’s CEO spewed a highly invaluable piece of wisdom – the company was simply not equipped with the tools necessary to contain an oil spill as large as the one that is now inching towards the East Coast. Hayward admitted that his company had been found wanting when it came to plugging the leak.
That profound statement came after an apology that Hayward was forced to issue after making a blatantly and horribly insensitive remark. On Sunday, Hayward said that he would like for the leak to be plugged as soon as possible, so he could have his life back. It was a shockingly insensitive statement to make to the families of the 11 men who died when the Transocean-owned rig, Deepwater Horizon went up in flames, and it shocked maritime lawyers, the public and legislators around the country to the core.
With 19 million gallons of oil already leaked into the Gulf of Mexico, large blobs of oil heading to the Florida coastline in time for summer tourist season, and uncertainty about fishing activity on Louisiana’s coastlines, it’s appalling to hear that BPs CEO “wants his life back.” Considering that the explosion was the biggest in recent history and that the spill has surpassed the Exxon Valdez disaster, Hayward has some gall talking the way he did.
