Okay, BP has said okay to coughing up $20 billion for an escrow fund. But will put the money in over several years. The funds are supposed to pay compensation to people and businesses harmed by BP huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The details of the fund are yet to be worked out.

Okay, BP spokesman, its chairman, Svanberg, apologized. "We care about the small people. I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don't care, but that's not the case with BP. We care about the small people."

Okay, BP CEO, Tony Big Mouth, Tony Big Foot In The Mouth Hayward, kept getting into trouble, so another BP big wig was marched out. This big wig is not British but Swedish. His appearance hit three birds with one stone. First, that Tony Big Foot In The Mouth wasn't the only big wheel with a lose bolt at the company. Tony is the CEO, but there's a Chairman Carl-Henric who has a few lose bolts too. He referred to us American peasants as "small people". His defenders, say that he meant to call us "the common people!" Yes, and he is what? An European aristocrat? Second, Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg is not British, so his mission was to divert the so-called anti-British anger that British Petroleum PR says is creeping into the America mind-set, and divert it where? To BP, the multinational corporation? Does this make sense? Maybe it does to the Lord Mayor of London, and to the British Prime Minister. Third, Carl-Henric Svanberg appearance reminded us little American how big BP is, and that if we think we will ever get the better of them, we and our leaders are mistaken.