Cable hits out at Obama administration over BP oil spill disaster

[Swastika]

Disgusting that he's referring to BP as 'British Petroleum', he's trying to act the "goody" in the situation to the American people and blame the oil spill onto the UK.
It's about time the UK stood upto the US, im sick of us following or listening to whatever they do.
Didn't America say if conflict brakes out in the Falklands, they wouldn't help? Good to see them helping us.

[ifuseekamy]

They're a company responsible for a massive spill which is hurting the American economy. He is within his every right to insult the company.

Pretty hypocritical from a country that consumes 25% of the world's oil and will declare wars and ravage countries in the Middle East and Africa in order to get it. But then that's just living up to the stereotype.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Then he just picked a random oil company with no relation to the spill and decided to bully it?

The oil company BP was obviously incharge of the rig/the well but from what I have heard, the very thing that caused the spill was down to a slip up/a mistake by a contractor company and not BP itself. This is nothing more than a cheap ploy by Obama to shift the blame and its at the expense of the anglo-american bond.

[MrPinkPanther]

For once I agree with Dan. Obama is just trying to pass the blame.

[HotelUser]

Pretty hypocritical from a country that consumes 25% of the world's oil and will declare wars and ravage countries in the Middle East and Africa in order to get it. But then that's just living up to the stereotype.

Tell that to the innocent fishermen living off the coast in the USA who have been officially screwed over and are without someone to blame.

[GommeInc]

So what we have here is a fine example of "stupid American" politics? If they do not want their shores ruined they should attempt to assist the British with clean up operations and prevention, rather than assume we/they should do it all. It's common sense. If a next door neighbour had a bonfire next to a boundary hedge and it caught alight, you would want to put out the fire and prevent it from spreading just as much as they do. Of course, some blame would go either way, but chucking complete blame is stupid, pointless and a waste of time seeing as it is closer to America than Britain/the UK :/

[Technologic]

Tell that to the innocent fishermen living off the coast in the USA who have been officially screwed over and are without someone to blame.

The innocent fishermen who are getting paid twice as much cleaning up oil than they did from their already failing industry?

[RedStratocas]

bp is in charge of maintaining the rig, which includes safety. they've had nearly 800 safety violations in the past few years, all other companies drilling in offshore u.s. have had less than 10. but, it is pretty pointless to argue over whose fault it is cause it just depends on how far you can trace it back to an event; all that matters is that legally, bp is responsible for stopping it/cleaning it up. i havent heard any anti-british sentiment at all to be honest, i think more people are just astounded at the fact that we literally don't have the technology/resources to stop the oil leak. i thought they were prepared for this stuff, i mean its happened before?

my slight defense of obama: he has had a pretty terrible/slow reaction to all of this, and frankly hes not really angry enough, but really even if he seized operation of bp, what could he do? its not like the government has a plan that it's hiding from bp, theres literally just no one who knows how to stop the leak. the people who should know how to stop it best are the people who dug it in the first place.