Some things cannot be fixed with money.

[donco6]

I was at a craft fair a few years ago. At one booth I admired the handmade wooden boxes - rosewood, burlwood, very well made and all unique. A young guy comes along with a group of friends, and he idly starts flipping and banging the hinged boxes - being very careless. The artisan chides him gently, asking him to be careful. The kid looks up and says, "What? I can pay for it!" The artisan answers back, "Yes, but there will never be another box like that again. It cannot be replaced with money." The kid stalks off muttering.

I'm not sure any corporation has enough money to fix the Gulf disaster. We've never seen anything like this. Spills from tankers spread over the surface where booms can fence part of it in. Leaking gushers from the floor of the sea? No. We have nothing to combat this. We're making it up as we go along. The only real solution is to not let it happen - ever! And we know that corporations cannot regulate themselves to this extent, so the government has to. Sadly, our current administration doesn't show any sign of changing course on regulating drilling.

We've broken the box, and it's gone for good. We can try to take all of BP's money, but that doesn't revive a dead Gulf.