Money & Finance

BP 1, submitted to Congress a report, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill occurred a few months, the company has spent five million U.S. dollars per week to advertise in order to restore the company’s image.

British Petroleum in the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee said the report, since the April 20 oil spill occurred to the end of July, the company’s total advertising expenditure of 93 million U.S. dollars, average weekly ad spending more than 5 million dollars, last year more than 3 times the cost of advertising.

Despite the increase in advertising costs, said the British oil major is to help Gulf Coast residents to keep abreast of progress in oil spill and ensure that the event handling of open and transparent, but requested that the British Petroleum advertising costs related to the report submitted to the U.S. Democratic Congressman Kathcasdo day said the oil spill incident, the British oil companies more money will be used to restore the company’s image rather than to help Gulf Coast residents, this “disappointing.”

Honourable Member that BP will be devoted to those ads by the oil spill affected areas, in fact, can only make the affected people more angry.

Tags: advertising, BP, British Petroleum, oil, oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill

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