Les ploutocrates de BP et leurs sbires politiques invoquent le too big to fail pour justifier que les contribuables payent pour eux, qu'ils soient maintenus en place et n'aient pas à assumer le risque pour lequel cette mafia réclame d'être indécemment rémunérée...
The Media Campaign Begins: BP Is Now Too Big To Fail
Bloomberg via ZeroHedge, 24/06/2010 (en Anglais )
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/bp-now-too-big-fail
The company’s demise would be disruptive to the American oil industry, given that BP is the largest oil and gas producer in the U.S., with about 1 million barrels per day of production. Some 7,000 of BP’s 23,000 U.S. employees work in the Houston area, many in a suburban office park just off the Katy Freeway.
From there the company runs its Gulf of Mexico offshore operations with a phalanx of engineers, geologists, and computer scientists. “These are highly compensated people,” says J. Robinson West, chairman of Washington-based consultants PFC Energy.
Souvenons nous de ce temps où le capitalisme méritait ce nom, et où ça aurait été :A person familiar with BP’s investment plans says it may need to raise as much as $50 billion to cover costs related to the disaster. Oppenheimer & Co. oil analyst Fadel Gheit thinks BP could end up in bankruptcy if costs exceed $100 billion, a possibility if partners in the stricken well, such as Anadarko Petroleum Corp., manage to pin full legal responsibility for the oil spill on the U.K.-based producer.
If so, BP may have to part with some prized assets, and Chinese and Russian oil companies less sympathetic to U.S. interests could step in as buyers and change the geopolitics of the oil industry.
“Companies will be interested in buying assets in Azerbaijan, Angola, Brazil, and potentially also Norway,” says Gudmund Halle Isfeldt, an analyst at DnB Nor ASA in Oslo, Norway’s largest bank.
nationalisation et ruine des actionnaires,
renvoi de la direction.