Your car accident example is a good one. When someone causes a car accident, they have to pay the municipality for the ticket, they have to pay the other driver(s) for damage to their vehicles, and they have to pay for the damage to their own vehicle. I think people want to hold BP to this same standard.

SBC / AT&T or whatever they call themselves today keep advertising DSL for $12.99 per month. There is no question that I would subscribe for that amount. However, my neighborhood's phone system is supplied via a fiber line, and there is no DSL equipment on our end. That means SBC / AT&T can not provide DSL to my residence.

I am currently going back to school online so my only choice is to pay $60 per month for Cable access. Once school is done I will no longer have Internet access at home. This is too much money to spend on Internet access in my opinion.

This is too bad because I use it for many things. I use it as a file server to host code examples. I use and update these code examples all the time from work. I also use it to help my father and sister with computer problems they are having by using VNC over an SSH connection. I don't want to give these up, but as I said $60 per month is simply unreasonable.