Originally Posted by kane

So you think the government should just stay out of it and let the market handle this? You think that if people are mad enough about what is happening they will not buy BP products and BP will either go out of business or lose its US market share? That isn't realistic. The simple reality is that there are so many hands in the pie it is hard to know how all to boycott in order to not support those responsible for this disaster. Not to mention that one of the companies involved, Haliburton, gets billions in defense contracts from the US so we could never buy gas from BP again and they probably wouldn't be hurt.