Out of the murky oil darkening the economic future, and shorelines, of the Gulf of Mexico comes, fittingly, dark humour.
What does BP stand for?
Certainly not “Beyond Petroleum.”
That’s just “greenwashing,” an American environmentalist recently told me in New Orleans.
The American blogosphere prefers these:
Broken Pipes.
Blackened Pelicans.
Beyond the Pale.
And, as BP’s CEO Tony Hayward heads to Congress to face questions this week, there’s a new BP sobriquet, tailor-made for the $4 million-a-year man theoretically in charge of the cleanup.
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