BP Oil Spill In the Gulf

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The reason the government didn't boot BP off the continent right after the spill happened was that after the Valdez spill, they decided to punish the offending company by making them responsible for the clean up. You've probably all heard that before though. So the government legally can't do anything but yell at BP for being endlessly incompetent I guess. Sounds like there are other motives behind it to me, but I don't know.

And a few days ago, that big plug sitting on top of the pipe had to be removed because one of the remote underwater vehicles bumped into it and so it was gushing with no inhibitor for a few days. I think it's back on now. That kind of sums up the extraordinary effort and capability they have.

And I'm annoyed with all the bad press that England has been giving us over BP. They think we're picking on them and that we're a really mean country. I can't remember the criticism, but it sounds about that mature to me.