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To: stockman_scott who wrote (76776)	5/31/2010 12:53:08 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 149317

I don't think the issue is capping the well, it is the clean up. But BP only wanted to drill one relief hole and Obama made them drill two. This disaster has to be divided between capping the well and the clean up. I would leave BP to cap the well, but the government should be coordinating the clean up. The reason is that BP will purposely drag their feet on the cleaning effort knowing it will cost much less to litigate their way out of the damage. BP will only do "a political clean up", enough so they can have a defense in court. They have already tried to get all the law suits to one oil friendy judge in Texas. They are following the Exxon game plan. Each time they lose a suit they just appeal it to a right wing oil friendly judge who reverse the judgements. This should be clear to everyone. After 20 years the supreme court finally reduced the punitive damages from 5 billion to 500 million. Once again the appeal process worked! Exxon made 45 billion last year and got away from the Valdez disaster cheaply.