Reply #45: The only political price of consequence is the loss of cash inflow [View All]

[blindpig]

and that money going to the opposition. Like I said about Capital owning Government....

BP will never cover the cost, even now these are looking so great that if you sold off the entire corporation there wouldn't be enough. And in any case they will lawyer this to death, just like the Exxon Valdez, major investors will bail and get away clean. Better to grab what we can, put operations under the auspices of government scientists with a more holistic view than the single minded drive for profits and covering BP's ass.

The entire energy sector should be nationalized, it is too important, generates too much destruction, to be left in the hands of capitalists. That might be said of other sectors too.