BP's horrific oil spill. 11.06.2010.

Kent Wells, BP.s Executive, after almost three weeks since their oil well started spewing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico said 'we are designing every option to be successful and we are planning for it failing so that if it does we know what we are going to do next' (sic).
Yes, those were his actual words!
So how does that translate?
How about 'we are doing everything we can but we're working in the dark here with an unprecedented spill . We're tinkering about at the edges in order to be seen to be doing something, making it up as we go along, and, in order to stem the deluge, the veritable oil slick of lawsuits that will run into an ocean of insurance claims unless we can come up with some piece of technology that convinces the shark-like claims lawyers that we heroically averted a catastrophe, we are comparing it to Hurricane Katrina in the vain hope that lawyers will think it's a natural disaster, we are making constant announcements about how we are doing this and that to stop the oil spill. We might recoup a few million barrels of oil for ourselves in the process. We might come up with something, a box, a cap, a valve, a somethin' we can brag about and take to the next cock-up)'.

Wells spews out default
statement to shore up B.P.'s
black reputation.