BP Key Statistics - Please set your fines (for punishment) accordingly:

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Total Revenues: $265.58 Billions

Profits: $63.4 Billions

Market Cap: $163.2 Billions

Return On Equity: 20.66%

EPS (earnings per share): $6.43 (projected for FY 2011).

How should these people be made to pay for the disaster?

[shraby]

1. 100% of the cost of the whole thing. Not a penny less.

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2. If a generation of fishermen's earning power is gone, I think they have to

be compensated...

[Merlot]

6. Cost, plus fines, plus payment to families of those who lost their lives

plus cost of lost revenue for the many years it will take to restore this area.

I'm sure there's more they are liable for.

[mediaman007]

3. I think that the penalty should hit the shareholders.

The shareholders are ultimately responsible for hiring the management and tolerating their incompetence.

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4. The stock is holding up pretty good so far...Has not dropped much really.

I say so far, Monday could be a bad day for shareholders.

[rug]

5. Since it is a person, liquidation.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Liquyidation is somehow..appropriate.

But, BP is the 4th largest company in the world, did you know that?
3rd largest oil producer.

It will declare itself responsible right up to the limit of its insurance, there will be years of court battles, everything will be forgotten by most of the public by Christmas, including who got 'paid off by BP and other oil buddies.
And the drilling will go on.

[Hawkeye-X]

13. Guess what? No insurance of any kind to cover this disaster

Even if they have it, they've already exceeded their maximum limit and they'll have to pay out of their pockets.

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14. I live in Ft Lauderdale, If I see oil on my beach, I will sue them too!!!

They are talking about the oil coming around up the east coast...etc.

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19. This dude is now saying that it will come over and up the east coast...

Fuck you BP!!!



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/03/oil-spill-to-hit-florida-_n_561653.html

[BeFree]

17. The drilling will go on

But from now on there will be no more senseless gambling.

And that is what they did in the Gulf: Gambled that they could do it with the maximum profit. They lost, and we will pay.

But they will never be allowed to do it again.

Fool me once, your fault. Fool me twice, mine.

Thank Gawd we ave democrats almost running things these days. Can you imagine bushco still in charge? At least today there is a glimmer of hope that we will never allow such a gamble to take place, anywhere in the world.

It is our responsibility now to make it so.

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18. They may get enough lawsuits for force them into liquidation...Or at least

Pulling out of the US!!!

[scentopine]

8. cost of backup blow out protector - $500,000, cost of rig...

$550,000,000. Cost of spill $6 million per day (expected to increase by a massive amount).

Fire all the goddamn scum sucking MBA parasites in this country and we could put America back to work.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704423504575212031417936798.html

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15. Wait, I have an MBA --- I agree with YOU!

WTF?

[metapunditedgy]

9. Cost plus damages plus punitive AND a generous donation to alt-energy research

to prevent this crap from happening anymore.

[metapunditedgy]

10. Oh, and PLUS individual fines for each exec to hold them individually responsible.

They've profited off the whole mess for years, after all.

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16. Ooooo, I like that, take it our of their paychecks!!!

A great idea...

[hunter]

11. Nationalize their U.S. assets at 50 cents on the dollar...

Never let them do business in the USA again.

[Hawkeye-X]

12. 265.58 billion dollars punishment, no more, no less.

They'll have to borrow against their equity just to stay afloat.

It's a disaster of sheer magnitude, and BP should shoulder every single friggin' penny of it.

After they clean up, they need to reseed the fisheries and the ocean, and be responsible for any leftover crap for the next 100 years.