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>From: "Mark Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "crl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [CrashList] Daily Telegraph: Beyond Parody, oil is what makes the West
go round
>Date: Thu, Aug 10, 2000, 10:38 AM
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>
> Direct fire at Government, says BP chief
>
> ANOTHER normal day in the life of BP Amoco. Greenpeace has taken over one of
> its oil platforms, British motorists are urged to boycott its pumps, the oil
> price is rising again, oh, and the business made $40m a day in the second
> quarter of this year.
> This is the world of Beyond Parody, as BP would rather we didn't call it,
> following its expensive design makeover, sunflower-style symbol and "beyond
> petroleum" sign-off line. At present, there is little doubt that, beyond
> petroleum, there is a black hole, so to speak. Without oil, BP would be a
> sad little business, and, while there is more to the industry than gasoline,
> it's what makes the West run, and what we all care most passionately about.
>
> BP was asking for trouble in scrapping the old shield, and replacing it with
> something implying that the world can be powered by sunflowers, sunshine or,
> just as plausibly, Sunny Delight. Just as the latter only looks like orange
> juice, so the former only look like alternatives to oil.
>
> Sir John Browne, BP's feisty chief executive, was being suitably bullish
> yesterday, as well he might have been. It already seems a long time since
> crude cost $10 a barrel, when he moved to bag a brace of American oil
> companies while prices were depressed. Both Amoco and Arco look like
> bargains today.
>
> Higher crude prices bring the cash pouring in, and now it is worth finding
> again, he plans to pour money out looking for more oil, to ease the Middle
> East's stranglehold on supplies. This is the background that makes
> Greenpeace's action so pathetic. As a protest against BP exploring in the
> Arctic, it boarded the Northstar offshore platform as it was being towed by
> barge to its site in the Arctic.
>
> Greenpeace plans to set up a communications centre on board, powered by wind
> and solar power, to highlight the threat from global warming to polar bears
> and walruses. It is almost Beyond Parody, and you might have thought
> Greenpeace would know better after the Brent Spar.
>
> In that incident, aided and abetted by News at Ten, which preferred dramatic
> pictures to intelligent journalism, Greenpeace bounced Shell/Esso into
> abandoning its plan to dump the platform in the deep Atlantic. Only later
> did the organisation quietly admit its estimates of "pollution" were wildly
> overstated.
>
> As for the Dump the Pump campaign, it will make not a scrap of difference.
> BP claims it is making less than 1p a litre from selling us petrol, and,
> while it may be making $40m, or about �27m, a day from its world-wide
> efforts, the British government is making �63m a day from fuel duty, merely
> by banking the cheque.
>
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