Passing at this time.

That makes sense. Blame the media for trying to sensationalizing it! :)

Yeah, this looks like twisting of the facts to jump on the bandwagon and get some site hits. They made less money, because of all of the costs of the oil spill, and thus pay less income tax on...

The way I understand it, and I might be wrong, is that if BP agreed to pay say $30 Billion they have to pay tax on that money, so it comes out to quite a bit more than $30 Billion. This just means...