""To try to claim that Americans are bigoted against BP simply because it is a British oil company is disingenuous. Consistent with their recent abysmal safety record and an almost predictable result of their recent company policies, BP fouled up.

To claim that, merely because it is a British-based company, holding BP responsible for their foul-up is "bigotry" is sheer nonsense. Among other things, no one is holding the British people responsible for this.""

I'll swallow that on the day that some American authority says that Transocean, and Halliburton, and others responsible for associated hardware, bear some responsibility.

From all that I'm hearing they have been allowed to head for the hills unopposed, while the whole blame is loaded on the British Company.

I am well aware just where the buck stops, but there should, nonetheless, be action taken against those lower down the chain of command, particularly those who were operating the rig when the fire occurred. Such action is conspicuously absent.

Don T.