So Brits would rather back an oil company that did a huge wrong simply because they're located "in country" than a president that's trying to make it right?  They'd rather get their knickers in a bunch because a president wants to hold a British firm accountable for a huge mistake of gargantuan proportions rather than actually hold the British firm accountable for said mistake?

Go UK!

No, I think BP should be made to pay. But then I think all companies should be made to pay for the environmental and social damage they do - wherever that damage is caused.

The problem is, this would have a significant impact on the cost we pay for all those expensive goods we like to buy at inexpensive prices.

I think the issue in the UK is that from where we stand it looks like BP are being singled out when there have been many other instances which have not resulted in this type of reaction. Look at the disaster plans for any oil company - there but for the grace of God methinks.

The media is still refering to this catastrophe as an "oil spill".  A "Spill" is when I slop some coffee from my overfilled mug onto the carpet.  When the water main in my house bursts and my basement is flooded, ruining the contents of the room, I don't think I'd tell my wife we've had a "spill".  When I can't shut the water off and the damage is increasing, I don't think I'd tell my insurance company that the "spill" is ongoing.

A better word needs to be assigned to this degree of damage.  "Spill" has no weight.  

BP should fire their chief. He just can't talk to the media without putting his foot in his mouth. The latest gaff being his "small people" remark. I was watching The Daily Show and it showed that Obama isn't saying anything that last 7 guys in the Office hadn't said about oil dependence and Nixon was the person who did the most on this.

BP should be paying. No question. If they don't do so willingly, there should be enviromental fines.

Go UK!"

Nah, you're basing that statement on a message board posting pertaining to a Daily Mail story - a "newspaper" that by it's own admission has said that if you don't hate somebody by the end of one of their articles then they haven't done their job correctly.  They just decided Obama was the hate figure for that article and got all patriotic about it.  Most of us think BP should pay up.  Although, there's a World Cup on so a vast number of people don't care about  anything else is going on on the world.