I can see them trying, with Gorelick's help, to start down the road of "we want to make it up to everyone and green is the way to go...so here...we'll be the first oil company to admit that what all the oil companies are doing is wrong and we want also to be the first to help transform the world economy to a green one".
I just think going green and making billions from doing so has been in BP's thinking for awhile, evidenced by their involvement on the cap and trade bill, and the spill might be the catalyst (they think) to do it. Don't think it's gonna work but my tin foil tells me this is the kind of game they'll try to play.
never let a good crisis go to waste