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Default O/T: Stopping BP Leak

Stu wrote:
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> Now BP is whining that it's cost them 1.6 Billion dollars already
> to cap the well head ( which hasn't happened yet). They should be
> worried about how much the ecological damage is going to cost them.
> Then there is the lost of jobs, others lively hood threatened, this
> is going to be a far reaching catastrophe.



I read somewhere the other day that BP's profit last year was $16.5
billion. I guess this means they will only profit by $15.5 for
destroying the Gulf of Mexico.