Well, a $20 billion escrow account, paid for by BP, for clean-up and related expenses does address the financial aspects of the spill and its impact. BP should still be penalized for their reckless conduct in how this well was drilled.

And, as I've posted in a related thread, it seems appropriate to me to march the BP executives down to the shore of the Gulf and pitch them into the oily waters, to sink or swim as they may.

Charley Noble