Another perspective on the oil spill
To the editor:
Under federal law oil companies like British Petroleum can only be held liable for up to 75 million dollars. However if an individual downloads music illegally it will cost you a fine of $250,000. So the maximum penalty for destroying the entire Gulf Coast is the same penalty as downloading 300 songs illegally.
After we the taxpayers bailed out the banks, now we have to bail out the oil companies? Although the Constitution says “We the People” it seems like the country has been run like “We the Corporations”.
Whatever happened to concepts like fairness and honesty?
Marc Perkel
Gilroy, CA.