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bpuharic

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:02:17 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:42:12 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

You may not like it but someone in the business has a better chance in
building a coalition of all the oil companies to fix this than an
outsider.

anybody know what this means? what 'coalition' is necessary? this is
an engineering problem.

Exactly ... and the more engineers you have working on the fix the
better chance you have.

actually it's just the opposite. the more people you have working on
an engineering problem the more likely you are to argue yourself into
indecision.

you need the RIGHT people, not MORE people. that's what you don't
understand

The only person who says BP has all the talent in the oil industry is
Tony Harward.
Rex Tillerson from Exxon points out this wouldn't have blown out in
the first place if it was properly designed. We are letting that same
team try to fix it.

and that is exactly right. do you think BP is unique? what company
DOESN"T use BOP?

the problem was in the bush/cheney abandonment of regulation of the
oil industry to the industry itself.