he comes across as a he is frustrated, because he cares about the small people and we care about the small people. i hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies that don t care but that is not the case at bp. we care about the small people. bp cares about the small people. now it s entirely possible he just used the wrong word, probably just a mistake. probably meant to say little people. that would have been just as insulting. more likely, he wanted to say ordinary people. when he said this, a lot of people understandably were insulted. i gave him the benefit of the doubt, because he is from sweden and not a native english speaker, and in fact, hours later, he issued an apology saying that he had spoken clumsily, and that is certainly true. bp put out statements, apologizing for or restating their own statements, but these things happen. people misspeak. if by chance the chairman of bp doesn t know this already, which i m sure he does, we thin