Barack Obama's roadblock on the road to recovery

Yet the long-term damage, not just to BP but to big business as a whole, has been profound, and regrettably, this damage has still to be capped to anything like the same degree as the well itself; the aftershocks will reverberate for years to come.

Throughout this disaster, BP has found itself a political football; coming so soon after the banking crisis, it was easy to paint BP into the same corner as "wicked", bonus-driven financiers, an organisation that put profit before safety and self interest before social and environmental responsibility.

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