The below post did not originate with a BP oil executive named Brice Cromwell. In fact, BP’s leadership team does not include anyone by this name and as far as we can tell this person does not exist.
A spokesperson for BP told us via email: “We can confirm we do
not currently have an employee with that name and this text did not come from
BP.”
So where does this text come from?
One common tactic of
political propagandists is to attach a seemingly credible or authoritative
person (in this case a “BP Oil Executive” named “Brice
Cromwell”) to a piece of text in order to give the opinion in that text the
appearance of legitimacy. This deceptive strategy is often used in
misattributed Facebook post (in October 2021, for example, a quote about guns was
falsely attributed to actor Clint Eastwood), as well as doctored images of
T-shirts bearing political messages.
The “Brice Cromwell” commentary can be traced back to March 2022
when it was circulated in anti-Biden Facebook groups, such as “Stop
Joe Biden.” At the time, the post did not carry any specific
attribution. Rather, it simply started with the words “PERFECTLY SAID” and then
the claim that it was written by a person who had “been in oil and gas for a
decade.” A few months later, in June 2022, the post was recirculated along with
the claim that it was written a BP oil executive named Brice Cromwell.
The members of BP’s
leadership team can be viewed on the corporate website. This list
does not include anyone by the name of Cromwell.
Written by BP Oil Executive
Brice Cromwell.
This explains it all:
I’ve been in oil and gas for a decade and sometimes forget how the
average person may not know what I see everyday.
We, the American people, have enough oil and gas under our feet to
supply our demand and also export our products for years to come.
No matter your political opinion, we can all agree the gas prices
we see now are upsetting.
What everyone needs to understand is that the high gas prices are
not because of some conflict overseas - prices were high well before that. The
prices are not high because our American supply simply vanished.
The prices are high because the people who run our country have
decided to import oil from another country instead of using our very own
American made product.
Why?
Using our own product creates lower prices, puts hard working
American people to work with very good paying jobs and makes us as a country
energy independent - Not dependent on another country to survive.
We all saw that not long ago.
Not only have the people in power decided to kill American jobs
and create high prices, but they’ve also passed legislation to make it harder
for an American oil and gas company to produce & transport our very
own product.
Why?
Forget for one second who was President when our prices at the
pump were low and our economy was booming and realize that that person was
simply “For the people”. If you take away your dislike for DJT, you’ll admit
that you miss those times and enjoyed them. Your 401K was higher, gas prices
were lower and we were booming as a country.
Now after a year of our current admin, you’ll realize that these
people are “not for the people”. They are for themselves and their foreign
business deals.
The high gas prices should be enough for you to see that.
The supply is still here, the hard-working Americans to produce it
are still here.
Having a booming economy is still possible.
So no matter what you’re told by the news, realize that if we had
people in power who were for us Americans, it could be as good it was
before.
Nothing has changed as far as oil and gas from 2016-2020 to the
last year.
It didn’t just dry up.
It’s here, we are here to produce it.
We can go back to lower prices at the pump.
All we need is the people in power to want that.
Lastly, since we all got to witness someone running our country
for four years who truly wanted the best “for the people” as we can clearly see
the “then & now” comparison as we speak. Remember every media outlet and
political person wanted you to hate him, wanted to impeach him and did
everything they could do be against him.
They were against the man who wanted things to be good for US, the
American people.
Those same people are not against the current leadership.
Makes you wonder who’s side they’re all on….
BP Oil Executive
Brice Cromwell
This is a good read and the truth for a change.
