Why do some Democrats keep referring to BP as "British Petroleum"?

I know the president also did this. Is is that hard to understand that BP is a MULTI-NATIONAL corporation now. It merged with Amoco in 2000. Are Democrats ignorant or do they just not care?? http://ping.fm/Ha1ZU Conway, who has run a low-key campaign so far, came out blasting Paul for the past comments on BP [...] http://bit.ly/owcW1O