BP CEO Tony Hayward (VIDEO): 'I'd Like My Life Back'

Think Progress caught the latest insensitive comment made by BP CEO Tony Hayward on Sunday regarding the Gulf oil spill. After apologizing for the disaster, Hayward manages to bring it back to himself:

I'm sorry. We're sorry for the massive disruption it's caused their lives. There's no one who wants this over more than I do. I'd like my life back.

Hayward's comments are baffling as he's not even trying to hide that fact that he's only looking out for Number One. The comment is just one in a string of out-of-touch statements made by Hayward, including when he called the spill "relatively tiny." The spill is now by far the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

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[michael429]

02:12 PM on 06/19/2010

There was another ignominious Brit named Robert Maxwell who loved his yachts and brought hardship and financial pain to many.....he at least had the decency to jump off his boat to his death late one night....perhaps Mr. Haywood can be inspired by that story....

[Chazmania]

11:35 PM on 06/07/2010

I want my firing squads back!

[Paniolo Joe]

10:52 PM on 06/07/2010

I'm sorry Tony. I didn't hear you over the drone of oil skimming boats and dying sea birds!! The people and the environment will never get their life back, at least not in this lifetime.. so suck it up, be a man, and live with the consequences!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chazmania]

11:34 PM on 06/07/2010

Live with the consequences of the fact he was a shill for the people that pull his strings..
lets identify the scoundrels behind it all, the Cheney's the hallaibuitains and the government a holes that helped them scrimp on safety because they are such arrogant Duplicitous bast@rds!

[JoannaOregon]

04:49 PM on 06/06/2010

Wants HIS life back! Unbelievable spoiled brat!

[DrCardio]

01:38 AM on 06/06/2010

If you're boycotting BP, make sure you're also boycotting ARCO, Castrol, and the ampm convenient stores (BP owns these).

A few gems decorating BPs indifferent history:

1. 1993–1995: Hazardous substance dumping

2. 2005: Texas City Refinery explosion

3. 2006–2007: Prudhoe Bay

4. 2006-2008: Texas City refinery fatalities

5. 2007: Propane price manipulation

6. 2008: Oil price manipulation

7. 2009: North Sea helicopter accident

8. 2010: Deepwater Horizon oil spill

And then there are the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Colombian pipeline, Mist mountain project, Canadian oil sands, and Texas Refinery safety violations controversies.

[hollybork]

07:18 PM on 06/03/2010

MSM, keeping kicking the President's butt on this. You are getting results. Now we are beginning to see what the weak links are. Part of it is that the "failure to communicate" denotes they did not understand how profoundly serious and epic this is, and how much the people need to be reassured. The oil needs to be contained, and the beaches are not being adequately protected despite plenty of time to get ready.

[campfiremarshmallowgirl]

09:33 AM on 06/03/2010

Hey, I know this is a vanity post, but that's me at the end of this post, talking to the camera at the protest!
PLEASE don't boycott BP. We need them to clean up this mess down here! Who will fund it if BP becomes insolvent?
Tony Hayward, it is time for you to STEP DOWN! Go get your life back...we do NOT need you here.

[michael429]

02:16 PM on 06/19/2010

BP has assets....they will likely go bankrupt and then it is a question of who is going to assume this liability along with the massive assets that they have which are capable of generating at least $10Billion a year in cash flow....it would be fine for them to go into receivership and have the government in a first position to seize these assets...it would not only be good for the people in the Gulf but will scare the hell out of the other oil, gas and chemical companies that routinely violate environmental standards because they believe that paying a fine is cheaper than complying.....

[zeeshan809]

08:42 AM on 06/03/2010

This huge multinationals don't really care about the poor people around the world.

http://bit.ly/bytAQz

[pinkychi]

03:51 AM on 06/03/2010

It is unfathomable that bp is not accepting assistance from the international community to help with this catastrophe. Mr. Hayward has stated that no one wants this massive eruption to end more than he, so that he can get back to his normal life. Mr. Prescott has stated that there are lots of other places people can get shrimp. The world does not want to hear ridiculous, arrogant statements. The world wants to see that bp has some conceivable notion of the magnitude of the destruction that has been set into motion with no end in sight. We want bp to be devastated and apologetic, because it is not just people's livelihoods in the vicinity of this unending gusher being affected; every form of life in the path of this toxic soup is being obliterated. That bp chooses to spray poison on top of poison, ostensibly to cover their tracks, is despicable and criminal. This massive cancerous region will only spread and grow over time, and with the use of dispersants, leaves little hope of ever being able to manage, let alone clean.

We are watching, and along with being horrified and saddened, we are enraged with bp's callous and seemingly ignorant stance. Immeasurable numbers of microscopic systems, plant and animal life are being killed off, it is nothing short of ecocide.

Hey bp! Stop the spreading of dispersants - NOW. Before this affects systems worldwide - GET HELP NOW!

Oh, and where the f**k is our government?

[Deborah Calvert]

11:06 PM on 06/02/2010

Yeah, CEO's who are ruining the world .....

CEO of Sun Healthcare Group Inc (SUNH), Rick Matros, "stepped aside" as CEO May 24, 2010, the very day I asked the Orange County District Attorney to file malice aforethought murder against he and Sun's Risk Manager, Dr Chauncey Hunker. The public record reflects they did nothing to help patients in their Newport Beach Sunbridge nursing home in 2003, killing my mother and others I witnessed. I sued for wrongful death and this man passed the message to me in mediation thru a corrupt attorney that I wasn't getting the keys to his Bentley, for stating he was a slumlord in a poster. I sued the attorney representing me, Daniel Leipold, and he died 2 weeks later. I won that case against his estate in 2008. Sun's Medical Director, Dr Stoney, testified in both 2006 and again in 2008 that Sun was responsible for he death.

Pompous CEOs should be tried for their crimes!

www.sunhealthcaregroupinc.blogspot.com

Deborah Calvert
Newport Beach, California

[lonemoderate]

01:28 PM on 06/03/2010

You seem to enjoy suing people.

[aabb]

10:33 PM on 06/02/2010

It's shocking and insensitive for Hayward to say "I want my life back" in public. How about those whose livelihoods are destroyed as a result of the oil spill? When will they get their lives back, if ever? How about all the birds, fish and animals who were and are being killed? What about their lives?

[kaaramel]

02:13 PM on 06/03/2010

I think I get where he's coming from. He's just saying he wished it never happened, that he could turn back time and so on and so forth. I feel for him and everyone else affected. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes. He was just speaking from his heart (no one's heart is unselfish, I think) when he said he wants his life back, I would want mine back too and so would you. But unfortunately, from what I can see, he won't ever get his life back and neither will anyone who is affected. Best start getting used to that idea.

[shara1124]

10:06 PM on 06/02/2010

tony,

If this response is the protocal for such accidents in deep water wells we should limit our offshore drilling to children swimming pools. i can not believe what i see. i suppose if the white house was ordered to keep the cameras rolling inside their disaster it would be equally ugly. I think I will submit an application.

[kenudy]

08:29 PM on 06/02/2010

My cars on a BP free diet...............How 'bout yours?

[MaryscottOConnor]

07:11 PM on 06/02/2010

Mr. Hayward, I have 4 words for you:

Shut. Your. Frakking. Piehole.

[Benover de Viros]

12:45 PM on 06/02/2010

If he had headed this up under a wallstreet firm, the leak would fall under a tarp and his bonus would be the best year