Would you pay more?

Would you pay more to create an oil cleanup superfund?

  • Yes, whatever it takes

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    9
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I do think BP should pay. Where did you get the idea I don't?

I wonder if BP will be able to pay the entire cost of a protracted cleanup plus compensation and the huge damages that will be awarded and fines that will probably be levied. If they run out of money, will the taxpayer be stuck with the bill?

What I asked - without expressing any opinion in the matter - is whether or not consumers would pay extra if a cleanup superfund would be established to deal with future issues.

I anticipate that the Congress will probably vote some huge new gas tax anyway, whether we like it or not.
 
I do think BP should pay. Where did you get the idea I don't?

I wonder if BP will be able to pay the entire cost of a protracted cleanup plus compensation and the huge damages that will be awarded and fines that will probably be levied. If they run out of money, will the taxpayer be stuck with the bill?

What I asked - without expressing any opinion in the matter - is whether or not consumers would pay extra if a cleanup superfund would be established to deal with future issues.

I anticipate that the Congress will probably vote some huge new gas tax anyway, whether we like it or not.

according to dunceler, sappy et al....your question is a statement that you want consumers to pay extra...

just sayin
 
Would you be willing to pay more for gas if the extra income was put into escrow for a cleanup superfund?

only if the oil companies put it there and a third party decided who and how the cleanup would be done

of course they will pass on the cost, also, do not put a limit on how much the oil companies would have to pay to 'make right' physical and economic damages
 
I do think BP should pay. Where did you get the idea I don't?

maybe because you're asking me if I want to pay for it......

I wonder if BP will be able to pay the entire cost of a protracted cleanup plus compensation and the huge damages that will be awarded and fines that will probably be levied. If they run out of money, will the taxpayer be stuck with the bill?

well, they do have a net worth of $81 billion, but with Democrats in charge and given the way they spend money, perhaps they won't......
 
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We already do, at least at the State level in NC. The fee pays for clean-up of residential and commercial fuel spills, such as Leaking Underground Storage Tanks. Its known as the LUST fund (I kid you not).

I haven't been involved in it for ten years, but it works like insurance, and the commercial deductible used to be $10,000, and no residential deductible.
 
They just agreed to Obama's request, they are putting 20 billion in escrow.

Well,,,,,,,,, At least the union bosses, Wall Street, and lawyers will make out like bandits.

BASED ON FACTS FROM THE PAST!

I BET A BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN NEW YORK, MICH, NEW JERSEY, CAL, ETC, get more money than the people who really are victims in all this!
 
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