In its next edition, due out Friday, Time offers its list of the people most to blame for the BP gulf oil leak and the problems that followed.

Number One: Former BP CEO John Browne: “The former CEO presided over a period of dynamic expansion at BP, but his cost-cutting may have contributed to the company's checkered safety record. He stepped down in 2007 amid inquiries into his personal life.”

Second is the current chief honcho, Tony Hayward. Of him, Time says, “BP's current group CEO is in charge of the company most responsible for the spill, and his succession of gaffes hasn't built confidence. Despite a flurry of calls for his firing, Hayward has the public support of BP's board.”

Both former president George W. Bush and current President Barack Obama also make the list.

On Bush, the list states he and former vice president Dick Cheney, “presided over an administration that was swayed by oil and gas interests -- both have personal connections to the petroleum industry -- even as offshore drilling moved into ever deeper waters”

As for Obama, he is down on the list, but still not avoided: “His administration has now begun strengthening federal oversight of offshore drilling, but the President also proposed opening vast new tracts for such production shortly before Deepwater Horizon exploded.”