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<blockquote data-quote="westsideworma" data-source="post: 734980"><p>I may sound cold but if BP caused this mess, why should we pay to help them cleanup? Do the senators really believe the oil distributors won't pass the tax along to the consumer? Are they that naive or are they putting some (likely relatively unenforceable) stipulation onto this?</p><p></p><p>As far as us putting up the money and being compensated later by the responsible party (repaid) as mentioned in the story, remember the exxon valdez incident? that only was settled last year and for a fraction of what was owed.</p><p></p><p>And then theres <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/05/gulf-mexico-oil-leak-bp-transocean.html" target="_blank">this</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="westsideworma, post: 734980"] I may sound cold but if BP caused this mess, why should we pay to help them cleanup? Do the senators really believe the oil distributors won't pass the tax along to the consumer? Are they that naive or are they putting some (likely relatively unenforceable) stipulation onto this? As far as us putting up the money and being compensated later by the responsible party (repaid) as mentioned in the story, remember the exxon valdez incident? that only was settled last year and for a fraction of what was owed. And then theres [URL="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/05/gulf-mexico-oil-leak-bp-transocean.html"]this[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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