Tapas thank for posting some very elightening information. Bottom line imho, "greed." And it's everywhere!! I remember it from religious studies and have been reminded of it from time to time from another program I'm involved in. One of the "7 Deadly Sins."

A bit off the subject of the oil spill, but yesterday I was in supermarket where the computer system that runs the check out cash registers crashed. An announcement was made that the store would be closing until the system was up. Customers were asked to proceed to the checkout they would not be charged for what was in their shopping carts. You should have seen the the customers loading extra items into their shopping carts. Talk about "greed" What a surprise those who loaded up their carts only to discover that a few minutes later the cash registers were back in service.