Not all the oil found is actually from the leak. Ships unrelated to BP are taking advantage of the disaster to flush out their tanks into the ocean where normally they'd have to pay large sums to do it in port.

I assume that you don't have a pension plan or any other investments then? They're already talking about making BP use the dividends to pay for this but if they follow your scorched earth policy then investors will be completely screwed.

I don't think this should surprise anyone. Given how oil little regulation oil companies are subject to, I'm sure they're happy to take a slap on the wrist penalty to save a few bucks. After all, it's a big ocean, right?

Equity holders have no God-given right to recoup their investment. Buying a stock involves risk, and when you buy the stock of a company that royally screws something up, you deserve to get burned more than I do.

I don't think we need to board and plunder BP, but I do think taking their US operations into receivership needs to be seriously considered. The idiots in charge of BP right now aren't listening to government officials, so it's time they were relieved of their decision-making responsibilities and forced to work in the interests of the country they're ruining with their catastrophic fuckup.

As you've seen from my contributions to this thread, I find it hard to talk seriously about this. Probably because I get a little too angry and I don't need that these days. I've decided instead to enjoy the open [and greatly deserved] mockery and ridicule of BP through the wonders of the internet.

Case in point, as much as I dislike Twitter, I get immense enjoyment out of the BPGlobalPR Twitter account. Whoever writes this is hysterical, and those hash tags are frequently just as hilarious as the posts. It's even better because BP got annoyed. Wah wah, BP. (and that second sample post in the article just had be cracking up)

I like BPGlobalPR's Leroy Stick story.

Man, that guy rocks.

*sigh*
Raining Oil

As usual, I found this through BOGlobalPR, who tweeted:

I can't imagine that's not complete and utter bullshit.

If it really was happening I'd expect it to be on more than just some random YouTube video.

Really impressed with some of the odd places good coverage is turning up. For example, this clip from Attack of the Show (the renamed Screen Savers from the TechTV era)

Anyone else seeing only white boxes in the previous post?

Nope. Two flash players appear there for me.

Two bright white boxes here, each containing some kind of invisible flash content.

I get the white boxes, but when I scroll up and down the videos appear. OSX using Chrome.

Holy crap. That was some really good reporting. I'm really impressed, too.

http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/exclusives/71218/BP-Gulf-Oil-Spill-Devastation.html is the direct link to the first part, was using their embed code to add it in above.

Sheesh! I can see the videos, and I'm using my Nexus One!

And I agree, I'm surprised how good that was. I watch that show fairly frequently, and Kevin is a funny guy, but he and the show did a very good job on that one. Kudos to them.