CEO of BP did not understand Obama’s joke

President Obama wrote to the executive director of BP, Tony Hayward, e-mail, which asked to be perceived with humor to his earlier message. The President noted that the words “when I said I was going to limit the extraction of oil off the coast of Louisiana, did not expect you to get my words so literally” was a joke, in response to which he expected to receive from the businessman, “a replica of the type LOL ”
This is a letter from the President,  information has been provided with the approval of the White House administration.

In his letter to Hayward Obama was referring to the connection between his own statement on the limitation of oil off the coast of Louisiana and occurred shortly after the accident at the oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Operator platform is an exploded BP.

In particular, referring to the fact that Hayward took his words too literally, Obama hinted that the bombing was a response platform and head of BP’s promise to limit oil production. It is this hint, U.S. President and later named a joke.

At the same time, publicly commenting on the incident, the U.S. president called the accident “ecological disaster” and blamed the unprecedented scale diversion of oil to British Petroleum.

Earlier, speaking, the planned restriction on oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, the president declared that its volume will be limited to, a complete ban, he said, he did not intend to enter.Meanwhile, after the accident on the development of a complete ban was imposed, which is expected to be operational before the end of the investigation of what happened.

The company, in turn, promised to assume all costs for disaster recovery and purification of water from the Gulf oil spill, the area which has already exceeded 12 thousand square kilometers. Analysts have estimated that cleaning work can do BP in an amount up to $ 14 billion.

In addition, on May 10 it became known that the U.S. Senate decided to call in for questioning a number of top managers BP, as well as two other companies also involved in oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. They will answer questions about the causes of the explosion on the platform and clean-up operation.