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Ace, you're bordering on willful ignorance. You've got people from the right, left and center pointing out the obvious flaws in your logic. Let me add yet another one.
BP's worst case scenario (from a legal perspective down the road) is if it ever comes to light that their plan for this eventuality was "we'll drill a relief well" rather than having no plan at all. At least with no plan at all, they could argue that there was no known way to stop the well under this circumstances and everything that they tried was admittedly experimental.
If the plan was to drill a relief well, then there's a huge question of why they weren't already drilling when the blowout happened or why it took them weeks (3? 4?) to start. If that is what comes out during discovery, then they're fucked, completely and utterly. It means that they knowingly and intentionally did something dangerous enough to cause billions in property damage and business interuption. It's like they drove coast to coast in a big rig leaking asphalt-eating toxins that disrupted interstate travel in their wake.
Ace, the stockholders of BP had better hope that you're not right. Because if you are, they could easily be looking at Chapter 11 or a complete dismantling by the company by their competitors.
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