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Now It Gets Interesting: Rift Grows Between BP And White House Over Cleanup Costs
The Business Insider ^
| 6-9-2010
Posted on 06/09/2010 6:21:42 PM PDT by blam
Now It Gets Interesting: Rift Grows Between BP And White House Over Cleanup Costs
Joe Weisenthal
Jun. 9, 2010, 5:57 PM
The happy talk about from BP (BP) about how it will do everything to "make it right" in the Gulf is quickly dissipating.
The straw that broke the camel's back: Noise out of Washington that BP ought to pay the salaries of everyone that's lost their job due to the spill.
An anonymous BP source, presumably someone senior that wants to get a message out, told Reuters: "At some point a line has to be drawn," in response to the new suggestions.
This is most likely why BP fell 15% today. The company can pay to cap the well, clean up the oil, and pay a whopping fine. But if the company is expected to provide restitution to the entire $2.2 trillion Gulf economy... yeah, that's not going to happen.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bp; costs; oil; spill
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How long will it be before the anti Joe Weisental vigilantes show up to tell me I can't post his 'stuff'?
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:21:42 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Time to send in the SEIU thugs
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:24:35 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: blam
It looks to me like BP isn’t too afraid of President Tar Ball kicking its ass.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:25:05 PM PDT
by
chris37
To: blam
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:25:18 PM PDT
by
counterpunch
(GOP: Government's Other Party)
To: blam
I guess Zero’s Butt-Kicking is paying dividends now, isn’t it?
UK will not look kindly upon our POTUS POS trying to bankrupt their biggest company.
To: blam
The Interior Secretary has been reported to say that BP should pay the salaries of all of the oil workers laid off due to the 6 month Federal moratorium. At that rate, Obama could deliberately bankrupt BP and take over the skeleton by continually increasing the impact costs.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:27:41 PM PDT
by
Truth29
To: blam
BP versus the Obama Administration.... As hard a choice as who to root harder against since that Iran/Iraq thing back in the 1980’s. Hope for the double knockout.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:27:55 PM PDT
by
Shqipo
(I stand with AZ!)
To: blam
While BP is at it. I live in Tampa Bay I need a new car. / s
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:30:53 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Balsa wood: Obama Presidential timber)
To: blam
“Noise out of Washington that BP ought to pay the salaries of everyone that’s lost their job due to the spill. “
A process that the government will happily create a new branch, and level of czars to moderate the ‘fund’.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:32:44 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: Shqipo
Company could be crippled by this and Obama might just get tossed out over it.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:33:18 PM PDT
by
Eyes Unclouded
("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
To: Popman
There’s a BP fuel terminal near where I live in Michigan. I should get something too.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:33:52 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Truth29
At that rate, Obama could deliberately bankrupt BP and take over the skeleton by continually increasing the impact costs. It is a terrible thing when a politician won't stay bought.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:35:02 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
To: UCANSEE2
Noise out of Washington that BP ought to pay the salaries of everyone thats lost their job due to the spill. And Obama will pay all the jobs lost by the off-shore drilling moratorium?
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:35:45 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: bestintxas
Maybe the government can just give them CENSUS TAKER JOBS, to replace them being out of work and all.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:36:08 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: AU72
And Obama will pay all the jobs lost by the off-shore drilling moratorium? He won't. We will. And pay and pay.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:37:36 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: cripplecreek
"Theres a BP fuel terminal near where I live in Michigan. I should get something too." Hey...what about me? I live by the Gulf and even smelled some oil fumes the other day.
In fact, Erin Brockovich is down her looking for clients(big ad in the local paper)... (ahem)those fumes made my lungs hurt.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:44:18 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Your typical case of the “blind leading the blind”.
To: cripplecreek
If DC is so quick to spend BP money Heck why not free BP gas for year if live in the gulf states
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:56:37 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Balsa wood: Obama Presidential timber)
To: blam
Well maybe zero wants to load up the debt onto BP and on behalf of the “victims” i.e. grateful rat voters - then seize BP a la Chavez. In this case not helping clean up the spill would - for the Communists - be a crisis that hadn’t gone to waste.
Not that there aren’t real victims...but I don’t have an ounce of trust that zero and his hatchet men would do anything but feather their own nest, even if they knew how to do anything positive - which they don’t.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:57:27 PM PDT
by
Aria
( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
To: chris37
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posted on
06/09/2010 7:17:12 PM PDT
by
nolongerademocrat
("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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