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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus6/20/2010 9:56:04 pm PDT

re: #369 Gus 802

I’m not sure why BP now is going with the 50 billion figure. It’s hard to second guess what goes on in that board room. My suspicion is that this is a sort of Hail Mary play - they’re hoping that one of two things will come out of this: 1. buy them breathing room in the feeding-frenzy melange that politicians/pundits are going, and/or 2. give them an out tax wise, where ever they are taxed, as this is one hell of an expense and consolidating it will make the write-off methods tractable.