Yellow Bellied Sapsucker of Week Award

Who will be in the hot seat this week, there are lots of sapsuckers to choose from but my choice for the first week of the restart of this series was suggested by both Miss Bee and Sandee after I announced that I would bring this series back from the archives of Sarge Charlie……..

AND THE WINNER IS: BP, aka British Petroleum and a latter day promotional name, Beyond Petroleum.

The takeoff on the name Beyond Petroleum is a promotional name they adopted to promote the company, to say the very least, the timing sucks, BP now stands for 'bad promotion'

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the coast of Venice, Louisiana on April 20. 115 of the 126 workers were rescued. Two days later, the rig collapsed. Since then, an estimated 13 million gallons of oil have leaked into Gulf.

What have they done to the Gulf off Mexico and beyond? Even of the east coast of Florida we fear the Oil will be picked up in the Gulf Stream and spread through the Florida Keys and along the west coast of the United States and on to Europe.

THE GULF STREAM, A NATURAL CURRENT THAT FLOWS IN THE OCEAN

Five states are now suffering because of the BP spill. Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi are hit by oil slicks that are devastating their fisheries and tourism. Texas is a casualty along with the others because the drilling moratorium that was poorly designed by Obama's team was created out of a political response.

How long will the effects last? This journey has only just begun. In a time where no one is sure how or what to do in this situation, the one thing certain, is that this can only end badly.

In order of appearance:

Carl-Henric Svanberg, Chairman, Tony Hayward. Group chief executive, Iain Conn, Chief executive, Refining and Marketing, Robert Dudley, Managing director, Byron Grote, Chief financial officer, Andy Inglis, Chief executive, Exploration and Production

You gentlemen have the distinct honor of being in position to have said no when the decision to use a less expensive method of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. You are directly responsible for the death of the following workers. You are condemned to live with that for the rest of your lives.

Their bodies have never been found, but all are presumed dead.
Jason Anderson
Aaron Dale Burkeen
Donald Clark
Stephen Curtis
Roy Wyatt Kemp
Karl Kleppinger
Gordon Jones (M-I SWACO)
Blair Manuel (M-I SWACO)
Dewey Revette
Shane Roshto
Adam Weise

FOR YOUR ACTIONS, YOU FOLKS ARE AWARDED THE YELLOW BELLIED SAPSUCKER OF THE WEEK AWARD

THIS ONE IS FOR YOU…………