i haven't been following this aspect of things, but is bp still having short-term paper trouble? when i saw the sell-off i assumed it was happening to bump their liquidity which i connected in my brain to the credit trouble they had gotten into a few weeks ago. i remember without really remembering (in the way one does when one's looking at other things) that these credit problems kinda disappeared from the press, but am not sure.
have you been tracking this?
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aside: later in the afternoon
[/COLOR]this report was released today by the national wildlife foundation:
Assault on America: A Decade of Petroleum Company Disaster, Pollution, and Profit - National Wildlife Federation
this link will take you straight to the pdf:
http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazine...-Disaster.ashx