bp Tries to Clean Up Its Act

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Editorial, Transportation

After seeing bp’s latest commercial for its company, we can’t help remembering that sometimes even the supposedly best technology can go wrong, very wrong. On March 23, 2005, one of their refineries exploded killing 15 workers and injuring more than 100.  Out of more than 1,000 injury claims from this incident and others that happened previously, bp settled out of court with most of them.

To counter the remaining bad publicity, the company, which provides 3% the U.S. petroleum, has launched Helios Power commercials featuring engaging animated toddlers singing “Say Hey”and hanging out at bp stations. To make them really worry about their image, what say we stop buying their gas until their refineries are a lot safer?

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