Oldster,

Based on current law, BP might just skirt alot of the cleanup responsibility... I have heard recently that their legal cap is $75M... Remember the Exxon Valdez... Exxon sandbagged so long on that that not only did they not complete the cleanup but also outlasted many of the fisherman who lost their livlihoods who died while waiting settlement...

I'm not too sure that this will happen again but given the outright lies that BP has put forth so far I wouldn't put it past them...

Meanwhile, James Carvelle continues his hissy fit about Obama's response... One thing is for sure that no matter how engaged you are you had better spend one dollar for cleanup and another dollar for PR to convimce people that you are doing something... I mean, what excatly does Carvelle expect Obama to do??? Strap on an air tank and go down and cap the well himself???

Funny thing... Well, not so funny at all but I was listening to NPR and sems that there are folks out there who think that dropping a bunker buster nuclear bomb into the well is what is needed??? I mean, lets get real here... What is that going to do... Think about it... Ya' got a major pocket of oil down there and right now it's coming out of a pipe a couple feet in diameter, right??? So ya' drop a nuclear bomb and blow the mess up and guess what you may get??? The entire pool of oil now entering the Gulf thru a two mile wide hole that the nuke left??? Me thinks that there is some very messded up thinkin' goin' 'round...

B~