BP CEO Hayward Sets Sights on a New Goal: Most Hated Man in the World (VIDEO)

There are only so many ways for a man to say, "I'm sorry I killed your ocean."

Taking a week off to go yachting is not one of them.

I get that it's not fun being in the limelight when all you can say is, "I can't answer that" or "Please don't throw any more of those, my clothes smell enough as it is."

But if he needed to decompress, why did he pick a very public yacht race ... using the very same ocean on which he'd turned loose the Oxygen-Destroyer?

Why not spend time with his family, refusing to answer the door for deliveries and yelling at the kids to keep away from the windows?

No, I think this must all be part of some grand, if masochistic, plan to take the heat off British Petroleum by turning its soon-to-be-ex-CEO into the Most Hated Man in the World.

And I've got a dozen ideas to give him a good start.

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Comments

[seawolf77]

09:13 AM on 06/27/2010

He's a jerk off running a multi billion dollar company. It's hard to imagine a more tone deaf and stupid person completely out of his league than Tony Haywood. You have to go back to that guy Ross Perot picked for VP.

[CJWebber]

09:30 PM on 06/22/2010

Tony Hayward took over as CEO of BP 3 years ago, and undoubtedy it is something he has wished he hadn't done. Although he is the 'face' of BP and he is fun to ridicule, in fact he is not the one responsible for every stupid company decision; stupid decisions had been made long before Tony Hayward got there. In a way, it is unfortunate the new CEO is taking the brunt of the abuse.

[Doug Molitor]

03:02 AM on 06/23/2010

Wait just a minute, bub...are you trying to imply that there are other oil company CEOs who don't care about the environment?

[CJWebber]

10:13 AM on 06/23/2010

Yes. Very astute, Dougie.