BP TV Commercials
If you watch any TV at all, you've most likely seen the BP TV commercials that attempt to show the company is working hard to clean up the Gulf of Mexico, as well as, the shorelines of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The spokespersons are mostly BP employees who live in the Gulf region. The commercials claim that BP is working 24 hours a day cleaning up oil on the beaches along the coast. They also talk about how they are paying claims to those who have been affected by the oil spill.
Truth is, they aren't cleaning up the beaches 24 hours a day. It is to hot during daylight hours for workers to collect oil and the oil is too soft in the daytime sun to collect. Oil collection on the beaches occurs only in the nighttime when the oil is harder and it's cooler for the workers to do the collecting. As for paying claims, it has been reported that BP will only pay claims to businesses affected by the spill that are within 1 mile of the Gulf Coast. Businesses that have lost money due to vacationers staying away fearing oil soaked beaches, whose business is more than a mile from the shoreline are not eligible for any compensation.
To not compensate businesses because they happen to be more than a mile from the shoreline is disingenuous and certainly not in the spirit of the claims compensation that BP's ads proclaim. BP should stop wasting money on public relations ads like these that few believe or take seriously, and instead work to make individuals and businesses 'whole' because in the end, it's BP's negligence that is responsible for the financial and job losses occurring in and around the Gulf Coast.
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