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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (43729)6/10/2010 10:25:45 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Re: [For example: how easy/successful would individual court actions be against BP, (a la the Exxon Valdez example!).] "The mere possibility of success is enough to provide an incentive to stop the leak."

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

'Incentives' come in a VAST RANGE of SIZES. (Teeny/tiny... middling... big... mammoth, etc. :-)

Saying that there is 'still an incentive' is not saying much of anything without knowing how LARGE it is. <GGG>

The question at point here is is this particular incentive bigger or smaller then the incentives tied to all the OTHER POLICY OPTIONS and degrees of freedom in actions to be undertaken that BP has before them.

Re: [For example: if the pressure in that one blow-out well would naturally exhaust itself in some 'reasonable' period of time --- might it not be CHEAPER to BP to simply do nothing (a la the Pinto example I gave)?] "Unless there is very little oil in the deposit, or unless you had a fantastic stroke of luck with the seismic activity doing exactly what you needed when you needed it to seal the leak, that isn't going to happen."

You CAN'T say that with any authority because even BP doesn't know the answer to that particular question....
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