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Great news for those most effected by this tragedy. Time to pay up you BP scumbags.....
BP agrees to put $20 billion in escrow fund, official says - CNN.com
Sources: BP agrees to $20B fund for spill victims - Yahoo! News
um... he's all bark man... legally there wasn't much he can do to force the fund and BP had previously agreed to it without putting a number on it.... just political posturing but still great news for sure
the real question becomes distribution.... if I cannot enjoy the seafood from the region at my local eatery, do I become eligible for repayment as it has disrupted my lifestyle
Thtas good but if you think that will hurt BP then you are seriousley mistaken we will pay in the long run but It is a kind gesture
What is the shrimp industry worth a year? Boat/jet-ski/sport fishing industry worth a year? What is the tourism industry of the gulf worth a year? and all the other industries affected worth a year? How many years will this go on? 20 Billion doesnt seem to be hardly enough to cover it.
True....but what's done, can not be undone. So I see it better than nothing.
Again....while I share your sentiment, that type of attitude AFTER THE FACT is really pointless. What we need to do
now is ride the Fu****s to pay,pay,pay and do what's right going forward
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What is the shrimp industry worth a year? Boat/jet-ski/sport fishing industry worth a year? What is the tourism industry of the gulf worth a year? and all the other industries affected worth a year? How many years will this go on? 20 Billion doesnt seem to be hardly enough to cover it.
I see it as pissing in the wind on a forest fire until there are no trees left for anyone to care.
Those peoples' livelyhoods are being distroyed...hey BP nice Gesture! Bull feces!
$20B of estimate $1,000B (yes that's a Trillion dollars) that it will eventually cost. I'm with Ace on this one. Just another flowery speach and more political showboating.
Ace is right all the way . The 20b will be a one time shot while the oil will continue to do it's damage for decades. Anyone who thinks the $ will solve anything just needs to go to Prince William Sound and ask if the $ that took more than 20yrs for the folks there to get helped them.
Some lost homes, wives , businesses and never recovered. To this day you can still turn rocks over and find an smell oil . The earth in the end will fix itself but it will be long after we are gone . Each and every single person affected by this would rather turn the clock back than have $ put in their pocket.
$ may pay the bills but it will not replace your livelyhood. As one person said he is a fourth gen shrimper how is he gonna teach his kids to do same and handown family tradition ? What will tourist season be like next yr and the next and the next and ten yrs from now ? Crap that's what it will be cuz this has scared all away from the gulf coast . BP wants to hurry up and settle before it gets caught in the loop current and flows thru the keys , then up the eastern coast of Florida and the rest of the east coast. It will blacken and ruin everything from The gulf to NY ! Just sad to see what we humans have done to mother Earth. She is gonna get pissed and wipe us all off here face I tell ya !
Where have u seen this estimate? Link please. And just what do y'all experts think is enough?
Funny reading these responses, I bet your answers would be different if they said they wouldn't pay anything out, which for all intents & purposes they didn't have to do!
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