SOMETIMES YOU GET ONLY ONE ACCIDENT

Just how many accidents will BP be permitted? Look, if you run your car into a telephone pole at 60 mph, you are probably permitted only one accident, in spite of air bags and seat belts. Or you might be driving safely on a interstate when a semi-truck trailer comes over the median strip smashing into you. Though it was not your fault, you were permitted only one accident.

But consider BP. Perhaps their worst "accident" was when they had their previous name of The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company which arranged for our CIA (Hard as that may be to believe.) to eliminate the duly elected Prime Minister of Iran. What did that Prime Minister (Mossadeq) want? He wanted the same deal that BP had signed with Egypt, i.e. 50% of the profits. Yes, at one time, within the lifetime of many of us, Iran had a democratic government. But BP (current name) managed to get us to do away with a democratic (parliamentarian) government and reinstitute the Shah and a regime more "amenable" to BP. Of course the rest is history. The Shah was eventually replaced by the ayatollahs and a government hostile to the U.S. with countless deaths and several times more serious injuries. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP for a more complete but still brief history.

I don't know just how many serious accidents BP has had, but another disastrous one was the 2005 Texas City refinery disaster in which 15 people were killed and 170 injured (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Refinery_explosion). This was at the third largest refinery in the U.S. Actually, the refinery was a part of Amoco before BP bought Amoco.

And then there are small accidents like the recent Trans Alaskan Pipeline accident that shut off oil transport for 10% of the U.S. oil consumption for more than 3 days. Well, no one lost their lives or were seriously injured in this accident. Though this is the longest accident to fix on the pipline, it is just one of a number of ongoing accidents.(http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-05-29-alaska-oil-spill_N.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclud e=Juno) But if spills of the Alaskan pipeline were the only problems BP faces, perhaps we could live with it, but they add to the list.

Then of course, there is the BIG ONE in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. This accident smells. Again there was loss of life (11 killed), a mounting and broad ecological disaster to both the sea food (shrimp, fish, crabs, etc.), tourist industry, and, last but not least, the loss of millions of barrels of oil. This disaster is still developing.

One has to think, hasn't BP had enough accidents? How many lives have to be lost? How many serious accidents have to be incurred? How much oil has to be wasted? How many global political problems are they to be permitted to create? Haven't they caused enough trouble? Isn't it time that BP be disbanded? It may be too bad that the BP Amoco deal didn't go the other way, i.e. Amoco acquiring BP. But it didn't. How much longer is BP going to be allowed to mess up society?