BP has been deceptive in their dealings to control their fines. There was no way for the US Government to properly determine the oil discharge until now.

I still don't believe BP, Transocean and Halliburton have come forward wtih transparency.

At Congressional Hearing, Oil C.E.O.’s Throw B.P. Under the Bus, or Rig, or Whatever  (click title to entry - thank you)
by Juli Weiner June 15, 2010, 1:45 PM

...Rex W. Tillerson, the impossibly named chairman of Exxon Mobil, and John S. Watson, the Sherlock Holmes character who moonlights as Chevron’s chief executive, both implied that the Gulf oil spill could have been prevented had B.P. taken proper precautions. It’s a departure from commonplace evil-executive Congressional hearing behavior: even those fellows from Goldman Sachs would barely admit that anyone at any time should have done anything differently....

The initial estimate from BP was 1000 barrels a day.  That all changed when the underwater films started to emerge.  Now, the solutions that 'CEOs' and their BEST efforts were suppose to stop the rupture has turned into a nightmare of insurmountable odds.  There is no way BP will ever collect even half of the rupture discharge.  Who are they kidding?

This disaster is DIRECTLY related to 'deregulation' and 'indulgence' of Wall Street as if they really know what they are doing.  What else is new in a Republican 'scheme' for the USA?

Republicans.  They don't care about this country and never have.

I look forward to the President's speech to clearly understand how lousy this mess really is.

Don't forget to evaluate the 'emoting meter' RIGHT  UP  TO the point where the President actually emotes and then sharply criticize him for emoting.  Jerks.