What should be in place is threaten the Brits if you don’t fix this now, we ‘fix’ the gulf stream and you guys go back to growing icicles in your gardens.
An astonishing ignorant post. The ownership of BP is roughly 50% American. Also: it is not a national or sovereign oil producer.
And if it was, BP might do what PEMEX did in 1979 and refuse to pay a dime, citing sovereign immunity.
Here's a reinforcing example for you. Union Carbide killed thousands of people in the Bhopal disaster. Has the US paid for that yet? No - because it wasn't America's fault.
The same principle applies in the Gulf, with far less death and devastation - except for that created by Obama's ban on drilling of course.