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Collecting from BP proves challenging for fishermen
(CNN) – BP is calling the release of its "worst case scenario" document "irrelevant," but critics call it one more reason not to trust the company. Many people on the Gulf Coast already feel that way about BP after filing claims with the oil giant, including charter boat captain Stu Scheer.
It took 40 years for Scheer to build his business running charter fishing boats for tourists in the Gulf. Now it's all falling apart – between the oil spill that shut down business and haggling with BP over his claim. Our Chris Lawrence has his story. Watch 
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CNN is doing an excellent job of covering the oil-spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but one subject continually reoccurs and raises the following question that goes unanswered.
The subject is the reliability of the volume of oil that is flowing from the oil well. The issue of reliability of the volume reported by PB is brought up repeatedly every day. What is the importance of knowing a reliable quantity for oil from the well?
We can see the oil gushing out of the well. We see the tar on the beaches and the oil in the marshes. what is important about the reliable quantity at the well?
The important issue to me is recovering the oil, of preventing oil from reaching the land and marshes, and that adequate effort and skill and the control and command is taking place.
Please report on the effort needed to contain the oil-spill and whether or not that effort is taking place.
Sincerely,
Stephen Jackson
Sack Rep. Barton and the entire Energy Cttee. come November. They set the ridiculous $75 million liability cap for their pals at Big Oil. They did it after the Exxon Valdez catastrophe. They knew $75M was a drop in the bucket but did it anyway.
Disregard their 'nastiness' in the hearings. It is all 'show biz'. Check and you will likely find all get hefty contributions from those same oil firms they supposedly 'regulate'. What a farce.
Can a third party really prevent the government from earmarking the 20 billion dollars ?