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Thats just a flat out lie, they have even stated they have over 200BIllion in liquid cash just sitting around. They make almost 100million dollars profit a day. Thats 7 months of profits. No matter what the number is, they should pay for their mistake. Thats the business, its risky, they know that, we should not bail them out. Part of the risk of drilling for oil is the environmental disaster that can occur if a spill happens. SO basically BP could still operate at 100%, pay all their bills and employees, and pay for this cleanup in 7 months and be done with it, and move on. But they wont they know our weak govt officials will give them whatever they want, especially Republicans.

Also those figures you show do not include the money BP profits but then reinvests, it is not counted on the profit line.

Time to put up or shut up, Beetle. You say that BP makes a net profit of $100 million per day, which according to this conservative's math comes to $36.5 billion per year, except for leap year.

Show us where BP is making a daily profit of $100 million as you claimed, please.

As for calling me a liar, are you sure that you are not a closet Obama fanboy? $20 billion is roughly equivalent to one year's net profit for BP (which hopefully you will be able to find through your own research). I know that if I suddenly lost a full year of my net income, I would consider it pretty substantial, whether I made my current salary or ten times as much - a year's worth of income is pretty substantial.

You should do a little bit of homework, Beetle, before you flatly state that somebody's numbers are wrong. And before calling them a liar, you should have an iron clad case to prove that a deliberate mistatement of fact was made. You apparently did no research before shooting off your mouth and throwing out your bogus numbers. Maybe you are making a bid to write speeches for Obama's teleprompter. :lmao: