Quote Originally Posted by DetroitDad View Post
How are we protecting ourselves from future crisis and disasters. It seems that we're putting all our eggs into one basket, in that we're already spending too much of our current resources on one problem [[thank God BP is cleaning up after itself).
BP is planning on tax credits in both the U.S. and the U.K.. And it looks like they've limited the payouts to $20 B. Still they could have declared bankruptcy, I guess, and just walked away.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bp-...k=MW_news_stmp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...clean-up-costs