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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:18 AM Original message |
Is there anyone who thinks it is in BP's best interest to let the oil continue to flow? |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:21 AM Response to Original message |
1. Yes, it cost them 25 million to drill the hole and thse stupid bastards prolly though they wouldn't |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:27 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. BP has spent $800 million on mitigation so far. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:37 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Let me restate that ...... |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 10:03 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. That is what I believed and still believe was their plan in the beginning |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 10:20 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. I could buy that but what a lot of people aren't taking into account is.. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 10:35 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Relief well is too small to be production well. |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 11:25 AM Response to Reply #13 |
25. What specifically leads you to that conclusion? |
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Cresent City Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 10:31 AM Response to Reply #7 |
20. I'm only speculating, but I thought the same thing |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
2. I can't think of a single way that a continuing leak would |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
3. No. This is a financial and PR nightmare for them. nt |
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Xicano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
4. People need to go to prison over this and I don't mean country club prison. I mean the state pen. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:30 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I agree with you |
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Still Sensible (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 10:18 AM Response to Reply #6 |
17. It seems to me there could potentially be criminal |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:59 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. I would love to see some of the BP top brass go to Angola |
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Kokonoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
8. If Halliburton is involved, and Dick Cheney is close by. |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
9. Absolutely not - this is going to cost them billions. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
10. No that is pure craziness |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
11. No. But I sure think covering up the problem & cheaping out on cleanup is. nt |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 10:05 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Now, what in the world would make you think that? |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
15. I don't. For anyone to even suggest that makes no logical sense. |
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dems_rightnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
16. No thinking person believes that |
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jtrockville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
18. Frankly, the well-being of BP hasn't crossed my mind. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
22. I think it unlikely, but time will tell. |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
23. Fuck their interests ...bomb that fucker! |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Um ..... no one is concerned about their interests |
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troubledamerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
26. Cui bono? Who benefits? |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-28-10 11:52 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Shock Doctrine. Never let a "good disaster" go to waste |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-10 12:02 AM Response to Original message |
28. One little conspiracy theory. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-10 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
29. Only if the cost to fix it is higher than the probable fine increase from |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-10 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
30. No matter what, that oil and the profits from that oil belong to the residents of the Gulf of Mexico |
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