That might be problematic due to the strong sense in this country that the federal government shouldn't interfere with how companies do business (within reason). ISPs might actually have to guarantee to provide you with the speed they charge you for, and we all know how much they're interested in doing that...
I wouldn't hold my breath. BP's roasting turtles and twirling their thumbs up their arses on the coast of Louisiana, and the government hasn't taken that over, either.
The government isn't responsible for cleaning up after private corporations. That's the number one problem with our government, too much intervention. BP caused the damage, not the US government, so let them clean it up, and pass the costs on to BP's customers only, not a gas price increase across the board. A foreign company, BP, done this damage on their own, on our soil, let them pay their own way out, and if any gas price increases occurs, it should fall on BP's customers alone, not everyone.
And secondly, BP, a foreign corporation, should not be allowed to drill near our coastline, period. They (BP) have their own coasts to drill from, they should take their act back home, where they belong. Since they took over Amoco, they have ruined the name of that product, so much that many former Amoco's customers changed brands of gas.
In any case, BP and BP alone should be held financially and personally responsible for the horrid acts they have created, own their own, with none of our taxpayer's money. I suppose the next thing they'll be looking for is a bailout, but I doubt they'll get it. Shame on BP for the damage they (and they alone, without any help, don't implicate anyone else in this) have done, and hopefully sometime within the next 20-30 years, they'll have our coasts cleaned up. The ones behind this deserves to be where Bernie Madoff is, behind bars for life, for the destruction done will never be cleaned up in it's entirety.
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