Subject: Re: Oxy, Vicki being interviewed right now
Makes me wonder how well informed your high level executive was.

Trust me, he knew more about it than either of us! Probably my mistake, when he said "we would have handled it better", I assumed he was criticizing Exxon. Actually, every company had made various promises as to availability of response plans and equipment. No surprise here that BP was particularly negligent. The pipeline partners conducted a internal review as to how well they had lived up to their promised readiness and found none of them really had upheld their obligations.