Results are in – 60% Say BP won’t Survive the Spill

August 9th, 2010. By AbiK

We’ve had a poll here on the LawyersAndSettlements.com blog since just after the BP Oil Spill occurred. The question was a simple yes or no:

Will BP Survive the Gulf Oil Disaster?

Just took the poll down and the final results were a pretty straight 60/40 split—60% of you think that BP will not be able to come out of the aftermath of the BP oil spill alive; 40% of you think they will.

Of course, it’s a PR game at play as well and an interesting thing has happened over the time that the poll was live. In the initial week or two of the poll, 70% of you felt BP would not survive this mess. Then, little by little, I watched the numbers start to head more in the direction that BP just may come out of this with a future.

Perhaps it speaks to the containment (?) of the spill. Perhaps it has to do with BP coughing up the $20 billion fund for claims. Or that BP finally ousted its CEO. Who knows? And of course, only time will tell what will ultimately become of BP…

For the latest figures on the BP spill, check out Update: BP Oil Spill by the Numbers.

Tags: BP, BP Oil Spill

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