
Unbelievable!
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BP could have bought 10 years of clean water for each of the 884 million people in the world without access to it. $8.84 billion, or $1 per year per person. Plus...
A new home to replace each of the 275,000 lost in Hurricane Katrina. $48.125 billion at the median New Orleans market rate of $175,000. Plus...
An ice cream sandwich for everyone on Earth. $3.395 billion included a 0.50 sandwich from Walmart for each person. Plus... Purchased Yahoo, Inc. Its market value according to Yahoo Finance is $20.069 billion. Plus... A 2010 Toyota Prius for each of BP’s 92,000 employees. $1.968 billion. Plus... A copy of the book Sh*t My Dad Says for every user on Twitter. $922 million. Plus... Purchased Twitter itself for a cost of $1 billion, according to its 2009 valuation. Plus... Add an island in the Bahamas to their purchases. Lighthouse Cay has four miles of beach front and costs $33.3 million. Plus... A pogo stick for every elementary school kid in the U.S. $621.25 million. Plus... A 3 pack of condoms to every teenager in the U.S. $8.45 million. Plus... An iPad for every college student in the U.S. at a total cost of $8.305 billion. Plus... A trip to outer space for every U.S. Senator. $3 billion. Plus... A year’s sponsorship for one million needy kids at Children International. $264 million. Plus... A three-wolf t-shirt for every person in America. $3.432 billion. A second wolf shirt for every person in Idaho. Another $17 million.
The total cost of all of these items is $100,000,000,000. This is how much BP stock has lost as of June 2010. This doesn’t include the $3.5+ billion spent in recovery efforts so far.
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