"Overall, Exxon has paid $3.4 billion in fines, penalties, cleanup costs, claims and other expenses resulting from the worst oil spill in U.S. history."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23367654/
3.4 billion what a joke. And how much will BP actually end up paying after all of their lawyers whittle down the lawsuits? Compared to the disaster certainly chump change.`yes obama saying BP will pay for all of it....right.
still dont understand how they couldnt have a back up solution if the cement plug failed anyway (if they had a plug in place to begin with). like a TEAM of bathyspheres or bathyscaphes equipped to seal a massive leak. incredible.