Comments by TheJollyGreenMan

Currently I am driving a 1.4litre TSI VW that kicks more power than the 2.6 litre Jeep I had. Fuel economy is also startling different.

These modern supercharged and turbocharged engines, coupled with direct injection are truly marvelous.

However, last I read is that VW can hardly keep up to supply engines to the European manufacturers, SEAT, AUDI, and SKODA draws engines from the same VW plant, that it will be a while before North America will experience this wonderful technology.

Even if the Russian theory of Abiogenic petroleum generation is only partialy true, it will be a game changer.

This report states that the Murray-Darling river stopped flowing into the sea. What a load of rubbish!

The rest of this propaganda piece belongs in the same recycle bin.

Golf courses is a wonderful way to establish green lungs in a city. How sensible of the Chinese to embrace this king of sports.

Surely the next move must be to build even more golf courses so that the sport can be accessable to working class golfers.

Climate activists may have a handful of cheating scientists on their side, but unfortunately for them, Mother Gaia is not playing along.
The question any reporter or commentator who is worth his salt would ask: 'Where is the warming?' has not been addressed in this piece of rubbish that is being passed off as journalism.

D.Darko

Hola Heuvon, I see your guttersnipe upbringing is rearing its ugly head and foul language cannot be suppressed.

Kindly explain the difference in the way Mikhail Khodorkovsky was treated by Putin, and Tony Hayward by your glorious leader?

Where in the constitution is it written that the chief thug in charge can fire or insist on the replacement of the CEO of a multi-national company?

Events around the oil spill proved that the USA is now a thug state run by thugs who have no respect for the law or constitution.

And judging by the drilling the Democrates received in November, many right thinking Americans realized that as well and are going to fight to get their country back from the pernicious anti-democratic forces in Washington.

Fantastic news for countries that produce commodities!

What is not mentioned in this article is the how the classical supply curve has been changed by the environmentalists. Opening up a new mine is a very lenghty and costly business, getting the environmental permitting in place - to protect the low flying f*rting frogs that are ever so unique - takes forever and a day. So the Softy Touchie Greenie Western Consumer will pay through their noses, unless they can stand up to the Enemy Within.

And the BP assetts grab by the Chicago mobsters is the dealings of a more trusted and friendly nation?

I'd rather have Putin as partner!

Well done BP!

I'd rather BP deals with Putin than with that Chicago thug that mugged them for US$20 billion, despite legal limitations in place.

The crooks in the White House make Putin looks like a Sunday School Teacher!

...Mr Christie is sceptical about climate change...

All the more reason he should be President!

Stop taking America back to the Stone Age!

Jomico, what a sad case you are!

Ever read about how C Dickens and his fellows had to fight to get royalties for their work from That Rebel Colony?

And how That Rebel Colony now has the gall to want to extract royalties from China?

bamps wrote ...The short term needs spending...

Yes, just like an alcoholic needs that last drink.

Don't you realise that in practical terms the Brown government has maxed out the credit cards?

...The convention’s strategy for plant conservation has yet to deliver the first of its aims (a list of the world’s plants)...

And until they do so, they should be out there in the field collecting information and don't waste time getting together talking about how to interfere in the lives of people that are actually doing some useful work, meeting objectives, paying bills, and taxes.

Why no mention of M Milken's support for prostate cancer research?

Surely a line or two about his work after his release from jail could have been included in this article.

Tony Hayward’s problem is that he is too decent and too much of a gentleman.

To appease the gun-toting Americans he should have fired the BP Head of American Operations on the day of the explosion, followed by a randomly picked BP senior engineer every day thereafter, until the gushing well was stopped. He should have instituted a roving BP inquisition to decent on the BP American offices to leave carcasses and broken ribs in its wake. The Americans would have bought this subterfuge because they understand ‘action’.

No once did I hear Tony mention the fact that there were no Brits on the drillrig and that the spill was an American stuff-up from the word go!

Once that blow-out preventer is brought to surface, dismantled, and inspected, Tony Hayward will be vindicated and his paltry payout will shame BP.

These senators should expand their investigation to include answers to the following outstanding questions:-

Did BP fund Lee Harvey Oswald?

Did BP supply fuel to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto?

Is Elvis Presley still on the payroll of BP?

Let's get to the bottom of this once and for all!

Zambino, can you please give some details about when people will start choking from Carbon Dioxide emissions if the nasty greedy oil companies have their way with the gullible, uninterested, and uninformed consumers?

So, it is only the 4x4’s that emit carbon dioxide, and not big, half-full, busses running inconvenient and torturous routes?

Reading comments posted like yours just reconfirm my belief in Darwinism, and evolution. Some apes are really missing the cockroaches, slugs, and scorpions that they feasted on in the bush! The rainforests were desecrated long ago just by the mere presences of your distant cousins!

I watched Tony Hayward answering some of the questions from the braying Mob on Capital Hill and am so impressed with his performance.

He is putting his cock on the block and will not give in to appointing a Lynch mob to run amok in his company, looking for a scapegoat to slaughter or witch to burn!

The engineers and other BP employees - of whom a mere 28,000 are American - must feel the protective umbrella from their CEO reaching out to cover them whilst they can get get on with doing what they are supposed to do: planning, thinking, and working!

BP must be a great company to work for if your CEO is prepared to back you up and is not prepared to sell you down the river!

I watched Tony Hayward answering some of the questions from the braying Mob on Capital Hill and am so impressed with his performance.

He is putting his cock on the block and will not give in to appointing a Lynch mob to run amok in his company, looking for a scapegoat to slaughter or witch to burn!

The engineers and other BP employees - of whom a mere 28,000 are American - must feel the protective umbrella from their CEO reaching out to cover them whilst they can get get on with doing what they are supposed to do: planning, thinking, and working!

BP must be a great company to work for if your CEO is prepared to back you up and is not prepared to sell you down the river!

As a retired engineer that worked in industry I must say that I am so impressed with Tony Hayward's testimony.

Until the internal inquiry is completed no BP engineer or employee need to fear for the security of his job. No quick lynch mob is going through the ranks of BP looking for a scapegoat and for somebody to walk the plank.

Given that more than 28 000 Americans work for BP, this thought must give them comfort, their CEO is putting his neck out to give them space to work, think, and plan.

Must be a great company to work for!