Reply #105: Well, the profit is in all that crude oil to be sucked up and actually

[Tansy_Gold]

delivered to a refinery.

Seriously -- BP has an investment in this well. Even if they're too stupid to have a shut-off valve or whatever, they've got to have some interest in recapturing the crude and getting it to a refinery. They're in the business of making a profit, and they should have some means of making it.

And at this point they should have a profit motive in avoiding -- or ultimately in paying for -- the penalties and lawsuits resulting from their failure to have an "oops" plan in place.

On the other hand, whoever makes the booms must have some means of getting the oil from inside the containment area into. .. . well, into something to remove it to a refinery. I mean, that's the ultimate destination of the crude no matter where it comes from. And it's well known that crude oil floats on water and it tends to move toward shore, so someone's got to have a profit incentive to do this. Think what it would do for military budget if the Coast Guard (which is or at least used to be an arm of the Treasury Dept, not DoD) could claim salvage rights to a couple million bbls of crude oil??!!



TG