“My challenge to you, the average citizen, is simply to care. Believe me, I’d love to hang up my tweetin’ trousers sometimes. I’ve already posted 440 tweets about bp and I’m ready to write about other things, but we can’t let BP slide. We have to keep shining a light on them. Look at the way they’ve acted thus far! Do you think they’re going to change now that the well is capped? They are going to keep trying to play it down, shirk their responsibilities and in the meantime, they’re going to pursue bigger and potentially more dangerous drilling operations. We have to pay attention, we have to care or this could happen again.”
Leroy Stick on the future of BPGlobalPR
“They have about a month before they declare Chapter 11. They’re going to run out of cash from lawsuits, cleanup and other expenses. One really smart thing that Obama did was about three weeks ago he forced BP CEO Tony Hayward to put in writing that BP would pay for every dollar of the cleanup. But there isn’t enough money in the world to clean up the Gulf of Mexico. Once BP realizes the extent of this my guess is that they’ll panic and go into Chapter 11.”
Matthew Simmons: BP Has About One Month Before It Has To Declare Chapter 11