Big Oil? More like Pig Oil!

BP has launched its promised appeal against what it calls "fictitious" and "absurd" payouts to some oil spill compensation claimants and asked a judge to temporarily halt those paid out as business economic losses. In a filing in a federal court in New Orleans, BP said it could be "irreparably harmed" by the payouts without relief from the court, because they could cost it billions more than it had budgeted for when it agreed to a settlement in April of last year. Serves those corporate pigs right. As far as I'm concerned, those bellends have no case. There is nothing fictitious or absurd about the damage suffered as a result of Deepwater Horizon. BP should be made to pay for what they did to the Gulf, and if they go bankrupt, it's their loss. The Pottery Barn rule applies here - you break it, you buy it.