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Message: <blockquote data-quote="captaincarot" data-source="post: 1825149" data-attributes="member: 80825">haven't been paying attention, not only have i paid attention but i have read the comments made by americans on the bbc site. more or less rejoicing in the fact that it's a foriegn company so americans won't have to pay.go read them you might be enlightened.what they don't seem to get is it's a foriegn company working to your laws and your safety standards, made so lax by your politicians, people voted in by you. the fact that it is a british company who had the accident is incidental to the fact that the regulations and safety standards that they work to in your area of the world allowed it to happen in the first place and will allow it to happen again, bp are such a bad company for not implementing safety devices which would have stopped it happening, they are the great foriegn evil, not one american has mentioned the fact that the american oil companies don't deploy these devices in the same situation because they don't have to.and if americans weren't currently spending so much time and effort on working out who gets the blame and to pay for it. the leak would have been sealed by now, by your government under a massive heap of concrete put there by your navy.yet the gulf fills with oil while people finger point and try to save the well.</blockquote>