What do you think about BP's change of CEO and what disciplinary actions should be taken, if any, on the departing CEO Tony Hayward?

BP's change of CEO, they're pretty much giving us a new face to hate. Tony Hayward is nothing more than the face of the company just another guy sitting around signing papers and smiling for the media. I think the way people see this guy these days is enough punishment.

He has successfully managed to be the face of the greatest man made natural disaster, this alone will follow him into his stress ridden untimely demise. The only thing that should be done about this whole situation is people coming together and banning the use of oil, and convert to safer more affordable forms of fuel.

It's just another boss who has a very tough job ahead of him. At his leval of bad publisty thats enough for him although I think he should not get a golden parachute with $18 million. Disgraceful.

He should be forced to sail his yacht to the Gulf coast to participate in the oil cleanup. Then he should be banished to his yacht for the rest of his life, and never be allowed to come ashore.

He should not be punished for something that he didn't cause. Unless he busted the pipes his self he is not to blame. The experts and technicians that worked on the pipes are the blame because they must have kept a closed mouth or just wasnt doing their job with monitoring the pipes.

Tony is just the face to place the finger as like any other big corp.

I think it was inevitable, not just because of the gulf spill, which was the icing on the cake for him, but because of his poor track record in safety and the decline in their stock prices since he became CEO. He didn't do his job very well and the result was termination. The unfortunate thing is that his crappy job performance will be overshadowed by his stupidity in handling the media during the gulf crisis.

BP has screwed up so many things during this gulf problem and has lied and deceived our government and citizens to the point where they had no choice but to have someone take the fall for it all. By firing their CEO, even if he was doing his job well prior to this, they are trying to clean up their image and convince us that they got "rid of the problem. " Unfortunately, we all know that isn't the case.

A company and it's actions are bigger than just the CEO. Disciplinary actions should only be taken if it can be proven that he, personally, broke the law in some way. I do find it rather odd that he sold off most of his personal shares in BP back in March, right before they started to take a gigantic tumble downwards.

He may have possible known about the inevitable problem with the Deepwater Horizon. This coincidence requires a little investigation.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.