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Originally Posted by dyna mo
certainly you jest. bp recorded $5 billion PROFIT 1st q 2010. while small potatoes amongst the big boys, that's a lot of $ to go towards a clean up.
bad luck? hardly. they lobbied washington and greased a lot of pockets so they would not have to install that valve on all their u.s. offshore rigs.
re: the valve, it's not 1 valve on 1 rig, it's a $500,000 valve for each and every rig. not taking bp's side but it's not accurate to think bp would of guessed right and installed the valve on the 1 rig that exploded.
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Point taken...
But look at the supposed "cost" of cleaning that up... I guess what I should have said is that really it's not their "fault" per se... there's no reason to boycott them. They certainly didn't plan on this happening or plan for it TO happen. They just got royally fucked like every other victim in this... probably more so...