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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

BP and Bloomberg. Different bulls. Same bullshit. « Fred Klonsky's blog

BP and Bloomberg. Different bulls. Same bullshit. « Fred Klonsky's blog

BP and Bloomberg. Different bulls. Same bullshit.

The three biggest school administrator lies:

“We have to do what is best for the kids.”

“My door is always open.”

And my favorite: “My decision is based on the data.”

Yesterday I read an article about British Petroleum’s current sustainability report. It included a bar graph showing yearly comparison’s of oil leaks as a result of drilling.

What was stunning was that 2010, the year of the BP Gulf disaster, had the bar with the least amount of oil leaks.

How is this possible? BP explained that since they didn’t yet know the extent of the worst oil spill in history,