Bloomberg Defends BP Over Oil Spill

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg came to the defense of BP today over their role in the Gulf oil spill.

The New York Times reports:

The chief executive of BP may be one of the least popular people on the planet right now, but he seems to have a friend in City Hall.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg defended the executive, Tony Hayward, on Friday, saying the public should not rush to fault the company’s leaders for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

“The guy that runs BP didn’t exactly go down there and blow up the well,” Mr. Bloomberg said during his weekly radio talk with John Gambling on WOR-AM.

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