Blokes from the UK are showing off a game released in the 70’s called the “BP Offshore Oil Strike” as something so simple, perhaps even children could do it!
Up to four would-be tycoons can compete at exploring for oil, building platforms and laying pipelines to their home countries.
But BP Offshore Oil Strike players must also avoid the dreaded ‘hazard cards’, which state: ‘Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.’
Unhappily for BP, that is just one per cent of the amount it has spent each day tackling the very real Deepwater Horizon leak, which has seen millions of barrels of oil gush into the Gulf of Mexico and hit the southern US coast.
While the game is no longer available, I’m sure a quick trip to Ebay UK may allow you to find a few. Let’s just hope they get it stopped and cleaned up someday soon!
Source: Metro.co.uk via Gizmodo / Image: Masons
It is hard to put into words how shocked I am that it took BP so long to make any substantial profess in stopping the leak. It makes you question what kind of people they have running the company. It is really hard to believe how a major cooperation like BP could be so incompetent. They have been doing this for over a 100 years! The only good thing from this whole experience is that it shows we give companies like them too much credit. This whole situation is really sad. The worst part of the whole situation is that is that so many people have had their livelihood pulled out from under their feet.