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From: edspyhill01 on 11 Jun 2010 09:00
On Jun 10, 10:30 pm, dr_jeff <u...(a)msu.edu> wrote:
> Clive wrote:
> > In message <qJcQn.37093$rU6.6...(a)newsfe10.iad>, JoeSpareBedroom
> > <newstr...(a)frontiernet.net> writes
> >> "Hachiroku ????" <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message
> >>news:dCcQn.24766$%u7.8214(a)newsfe14.iad...
> >>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:12:23 -0400, JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
> >>>> "Hachiroku ????" <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message
> >>>>news:23cQn.140469$0M5.51621(a)newsfe07.iad...
> >>>>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:53:16 -0400, Mike Hunter wrote:
> >>> It's not up to BP, it was up to the US government.
> >> You think the two are actually separate?
> > In fact despite it's name, BP has 6 British Directors and six American
> > Directors, further only a third is floated on the FTSE and 40% on the
> > American markets, I don't know who holds the other 30%
> > I would sure like to know when the US government are going to clean up
> > their act in the Niger Delta where the spills are much larger and no one
> > is doing anything to attempt to clear the mess. What about Union Carbide
> > and the Bohpol disaster where 8000 died and no one in America wants to
> > claim fault even now 25 years later.
> > Pot calling the kettle black.
>
> BP was formed from British Petroleum and Amoco merged. And it aquired
> ARCO, too.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

It was originally known as the Anglo-Persian Oil company, then the
Anglo-Iran oil comany, then they had the CIA overthrow the first
democratically elected leader if Iran.

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