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yella_dawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 09:56 AM Original message |
BP is spending ~ a billion a day dealing with this spill. |
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Nuclear Unicorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
1. Did they keep the receipts? |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
2. Off by three orders of magnitude |
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yella_dawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Explain, oh wise one! |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. one billion = 1,000 million |
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yella_dawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Gee. A master's degree in mathematics and I didn't know that. |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:53 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Excuse me, but isn't this EXACTLY the point you were making? |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. BP is not spending a billion a day. They are spending 24 million a day. |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
3. AND all the needed was a $500,000 cut off valve |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
4. Penny wise, pound foolish. |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
7. BP's CEO said the total costs would come in at $3 billion.... |
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yella_dawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. BP's estimate quoted in the media yesterday was roughly in the billion a day range. |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. No, he said they've spent a billion dollars TO DATE (not a day)... |
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yella_dawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:58 PM Original message |
Just did a google search... |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
19. No they didn't. n/t |
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EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
8. A billion? Just what do you use to arrive at that number? NT |
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yella_dawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Media story yesterday gave BP's cost estimate for the disaster so far. |
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yella_dawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. Who knows. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
10. who cares? it should be a million brazillion for fucking up the earth. |
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Shadow Creature (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
14. That is a lot of money |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
16. Where do you get a billion a day? |
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