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Originally Posted by crockett
The purpose of the fine is to cost them money to make it unprofitable to cut corners. Also it did and still is costing the tax payers millions and BP has yet to pay a penny of the fine..
Who do you think pays for all that water testing, the coast guard and all the people the state's had to bring in to clean the animals and shore lines. Yea BP supplied a lot of that labor, but so did the state's and federal govt.
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Theoretically that might be true about the fine. Realistically it was already a very, very unprofitable situation costing BP tens of billions of dollars.
As for water testing...Yeah, that's what the EPA is supposed to do. They are already being paid whether they test the water or not. Right?
The rehab for the animals...as I understood it from news reports that was also paid by BP.
Dude...everything I heard about that indicated that BP was paying for pretty much everything.
I don't know if they paid the fuel for the Coast Guard boats to ride around or not. But again...just like the EPA, the Coast Guard is already being paid to patrol the coast. The taxpayers didn't get a tax hike to suddenly have to pay for that.