A clause buried deep in the U.S. Clean Water Act may expose BP and others to civil fines that aren't limited to any finite cap -- unlike a $75 million limit on compensation for economic damages. The Act allows the government to seek civil penalties in court for every drop of oil that spills into U.S. navigable waters, including the area of BP's leaking well.As a result, the U.S. government could seek to fine BP or others up to $4,300 for every barrel leaked into the U.S. Gulf, according to legal experts and official documents.
It is truly the least these fucking people deserve. They are a bunch of liars, a horde of greedy plunderers who would gladly ruin the entire planet (save for their gated communities) if not kept in check by the ribbons of regulation currently now upon them.
That's oil for you. That's capitalism for you. You need to have assholes like this in every sector of industry, finance and government to give you cheap everything. But no one wants to face that. They want to blame BP and guiltlessly drive to Walmart. And we have them. We have assholes in spades. What a bunch of pieces of shit we are. We all just go on with our lives, letting these people fuck us and everything around us.
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