{"id":1279,"date":"2010-06-10T15:42:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T19:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2010-06-10T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T19:44:08","slug":"sinking-bp-shares-ignite-trans-atlantic-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Sinking BP shares ignite trans-Atlantic rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what cutting corners to make a profit does.<\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2013 The Gulf of Mexico oil spill risked turning into a trans-Atlantic diplomatic rift Thursday after U.S. threats to have BP fork out billions more for the disaster caused a precipitous slide in the blue-chip\u2019s stock, hurting retirement savings for millions of Britons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">My thought: Why tell us, tell BP. They are the ones who are responsible for this mess.<br \/>\n\u00a0America, are you willing to give up your lively hood, your sovernty\u00a0so \u00a0BP and Britons may feel good about their retirement and executives bonus\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>British lawmakers are even pushing Prime Minister David Cameron to get President Barack Obama to tone down his stinging criticism of the oil company, complaining that the hostile rhetoric will have severe implications for pensioners with nest eggs in the company.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">My thought:\u00a0 Again, why are the Britons complaining to us about BP\u2019s major blunder?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100610\/ap_on_bi_ge\/eu_britain_bp_shares\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100610\/ap_on_bi_ge\/eu_britain_bp_shares<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what cutting corners to make a profit does.<br \/>\nLONDON \u2013 The Gulf of Mexico oil spill risked turning into a trans-Atlantic diplomatic rift Thursday after U.S. threats to have BP fork out billions more for the disaster caused a precipitous slide in the blue-chip\u2019s stock, hurting retirement savings for millions of Britons.<br \/>\nMy thought: Why tell us, tell BP. They are the ones who are responsible for this mess.<br \/>\n\u00a0America, are you willing to give up your lively hood, your sovernty\u00a0so \u00a0BP and Britons may feel good about their retirement and executives bonus\u2019?<br \/>\nBritish lawmakers are even pushing Prime Minister David Cameron to get President Barack Obama to tone down his stinging criticism of the oil company, complaining that the hostile rhetoric will have severe implications for pensioners with nest eggs in the company.<br \/>\nMy thought:\u00a0 Again, why are the Britons complaining to us about BP\u2019s major blunder?<br \/>\nSource: http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100610\/ap_on_bi_ge\/eu_britain_bp_shares<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,23,11,32,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-reefs","category-events","category-reefs","category-reference","category-report"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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