Agree, and when they are making billions of dollars every quarter in pure profit, there should be enough
money to address the spill even if it is taken from BP. If they cry poor, they are full of shit. Plus, environmental liability trumps most bankruptcy protection in the US.

This company is tarting to look just like Exxon. Within hours of the release being made public, BP was going to people on the coast offering them $5000 for damages and telling them this was the best offer they would get. By accepting the 5K, people gave away all of their abililty to get compensation for the very real and huge damages they will bear from this spill. They are refusing to let reporters near the spill site etc. BP is in self protection mode much more strongly than they are in a respond to envirnmental disaster mode.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 15:12, 1 reply)

They are going to address the cost of the spill
and the clean-up, and the compensation. They volunteered that from day one. The argument here is about Obama banging on about criminal charges like an idiot and also demanding that money is set aside on US terms. Why? It doesn't happen that way anywhere else in the world and it certainly didn't for Bhopal, now, did it?

And, considering the way US congress and Obama is behaving, I don't really blame BP for being in self-protection mode. Do you?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 17:48, closed)