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BP - off the hook ? ...and a BUY ?
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Oil firms 'set to clash in US Senate' over rig disaster
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8674073.stm
Seems to me that they will share the blame.0 -
Picture from Daily Mail, words are trash.0 -
Somebody on Yahoo says BP controls news flows better than oil flows. Certainly seems odd that absolute trash in the form of Daily Wail article has been sticking at the top of google news search.0
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sabretoothtigger wrote: »Rednecks show the brits how to clean up their mess the old fashioned way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5SxX2EntEo
Surprisingly, the Alabama Hay Market remains pretty steady!There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...0 -
Twitter is the other extreme to google. You would think the sky is falling in.0
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President Barack Obama was said by the White House to be "deeply frustrated" the oil leak had yet to be stopped.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8678113.stm
Latest state of play off Louisiana, "Top Hat" about to be tried.
Disappointing that no sign of real cause has emerged.0 -
BP not off the hook, but when will it ever be in the risky oil business. I am thinking it is a good time to buy, the demons seem a little smaller..0
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If nothing else I hope they learn prevention is better then cure. (and cheaper too)
Really seems to be they didnt want to spend 1bn on a fail safe or pay for boats to be on stand by to contain and suck up the oil0 -
They ignored warning signs is what I'm hearing.0
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