That's one hell of a slippery slope you condone there. First, it's not "their" oil. The oil goes to whoever can finance and stick a pipe and distribution system on or close to it. You are aware BP is England's largest corporation, right? You really expect a company based in GB to pay millions of not-legally obligated dollars to help a country halfway across the world? Bad analogies below:

When your lawyer fucks up your murder trial and you get the death penalty, do you get the blame? No, you get a mistrial. When your house builder hires a contractor and the walls cave in and crush half your stuff, do you get to sue the builder? Maybe, but he turns around and sues the contractor for whatever you squeezed out of him. Most of our legal and social systems are based on contractual obligations and liabilities. You cannot arbitrarily assign blame and start up a lynch mob because your contractor f'ed up. Legally speaking, the only company liable, at the end of the day, is the contractor. That's why they exist. There's no drunk Joe here steering a boat into a coral reef, thus no negligence on BP's part.

I'm so tired of this filth people bullshit and then repeat, and it's getting worse even here. The company responsible isn't BP, they're just the company that owns the asset (the rig itself). The company responsible, and thus liable, is the CONTRACTOR. You know, the little engineering company that BP contracted to drill the well, who was supposed to get it working and then hand over control to BP for capturing and refinement. The engineer drilling the well fucked up, his famous last words of "there's water everywhere" (paraphrase) mean the casement was fucked, water was entering the pipe, and everything was coming straight up from 5000 feet like a fatass sucking a shake through a straw. Unequal pressure through incompetent drilling led to the explosion and this whole thing.

Oh, one more thing, that little engineering company that is LEGALLY LIABLE for the fuck-up is only worth $50 or a $100 million, and just declared bankruptcy (hypothetically, of course). So there goes pretty much all of the money for the clean-up, save what BP donates to make themselves look good. The stupid shit Obama thinks he can pin this on BP, and there's not a chance in hell they're paying a dime more than they want.

Link attempts to install a virus; need to kill his comment.

http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=232081 Halfway down the page, video titled "sky is falling". Also, slow-mo footage of runners highlights bounciness.