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To: Road Walker who wrote (20927)	6/2/2010 7:30:06 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 86355

It should be a legal decision based on the economics with no political involvement or political judgments on the part of judges involved at all. Justice is supposed to be blind, not reflect public sentiments, stereotypes and prejudices. What planet are you from? Earth. Its a shame what I wrote is viewed as outlandish. We're not supposed to have politicized justice. ---------------------------------------------- Right now Florida tourism is off. Rational or not there is big money being lost, and who is responsible? --- The media and other folks who are hyping the catastrophe as being more than it is. The old standby, blame the media. Have you seen one instance where the media has said there is oil on FL beaches? First reference I've seen is today... something like 8 miles off the NW beaches. If I was a northerner and heard that I would cancel my vacation; who wants to go to an oil stained beach? Has it occurred to you that your own rhetoric is harmful to Florida tourism? You've said the Gulf of Mexico is a sewer and will be essentially forever ... so why would anyone who listened to you ever want to visit Florida? ------------------------------------------------------- If otoh charter operators are losing money because of the hysteria of media and environmental hypesters, thats tough luck. Since that isn't the case it's a non-issue. Oh but it is real. You just said Florida is untouched by oil so far but its tourism is down anyway. -------------------------------------------------------- Plus fishermen might be able to sue if catches are reduced. Reduced? 1/3 of the Gulf is closed. "If"?! Fishermen whose fishing areas are now closed will undoubtedly be suing BP and they have grounds to do so. ------------------------------------------------------ I'd guess BP will survive but shareholders will suffer over time. Shareholder are suffering now. Where you been? I know but this isn't going to be a temporary problem for BP. ------------------------------------------------- There is talk of a take over this morning... I doubt that. Nobody will want the liability. I think thats just the standard rhetoric from the Hugo Chavez wing of the Democratic party. I have no idea whether the Obama administration will end up "seizing" or nationalizing BP in some manner. Given Chrysler, GM, AIG .... I can't rule it out. How a government run oil company would run, I have no clue. BP has a history of operational problems but I guess BP could always get worse.

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