Friday, September 24, 2010

The Bestest BP infographic evar!

The topic? All the things BP could buy with all of the money lost from the decreased stock value as a result of the oil spill. This doesn't even count the money spent cleaning up the spill or paying out claims.

Unbelievable!

In case the site ever goes down, here's the transcript:

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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