Want to hate BP even more?

Ok, you guys fucked up the US Gulf Coast for years, maybe decades to come.  And, despite the announcement today that your new, fancy cap is holding back the torrents of oil for the moment, you tripped over yourselves and ate a sandwich and drank a beer before you actually did something meaningful about the disaster.  No thanks to the federal government of course.  They had golf to play.  Anyway, first of all, what reason could BP have for lobbying for the release of the Lockerbie bomber?  Something you officially aknowledge doing.  And no I don't believe you, BP, when you say you did not make some sort of back door, under handed, money grubbing deal with the UK and Libya to drill oil off their coast in return for the release of the Lockerbie bomber.  What sort of honest track record do you have that would make me believe you?  I hope you don't cite the 5,000 barrels a day of oil pouring into the gulf when it actually turned out to be like 60,000 and you only admitted that when outside sources verbally pummeled you for your pitifully low estimate, also known as a lie.  Anyway, fuck you gain, BP.  I hope you go bankrupt.  Rabble-B

BP to drill for Libyan oil despite Lockerbie bomber furor

U.S. senators urge delays but BP says it will press ahead within weeks

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Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi received a hero's welcome when he arrived in Tripoli, Libya, on Aug. 20, 2009.

LONDON — Oil giant BP said Thursday that it planned to start drilling off the coast of Libya within weeks despite calls from U.S. senators for a moratorium over the company's alleged links to the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., told NBC’s TODAY on Thursday that the U.K. government should investigate what role the company played in the decision to free Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in August 2009.
"We want a moratorium on the drilling [by BP] off Libya's coast. We believe BP should not be allowed to drill until we have resolution of this," she told the show.
 Al-Megrahi, 57, is the only person convicted of carrying out the 1988 bombing of a U.S. airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people.
He was released on compassionate grounds by the Scottish government after doctors said he was likely just months from death. Nearly a year later, he remains alive.
BP signed a $900 million exploration agreement with Libya in May 2007, the same month that Britain and Libya signed an agreement that paved the way for al-Megrahi's release from a Scottish prison.
BP has admitted that it lobbied the British government over a prisoner transfer deal with Libya in late 2007, but denied playing any role in the actual decision to release al-Megrahi nearly two years later.