Oil Spill Survey: Public Trust in BP, Feds Diminished, The Vanguard (University of South Alabama), November 1, 2010:
A telephone survey conducted through most of September by the USA Polling Group measured 412 South Mobile residents’ responses to the BP PLC oil spill. ...
Dr. Charles Brown, a professor in USA’s psychology department, understands the wariness of locals – 60 percent interviewed said they had no trust in the information that was being distributed by BP and 59 percent said they had no trust in the federal government’s response to the spill. ...
Who would trust BP? They have ruined their reputation by not being truthful with customers.
And the other 40% do trust BP??? Maybe they misunderstood the question.