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 Posted: Mon, 4th Oct 2010 09:37 Post subject: What BP Could Have Bought With All the Money They Lost |
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BP could have bought 10 years of clean water for each of the 884 million people in the world without access to it. The cost would be $8.84 billion, or $1 per year per person.
BP could also have bought a new home to replace each of the 275,000 lost in Hurricane Katrina. The cost would be $48.125 billion at the median New Orleans market rate of $175,000.
With the lost money, BP could also have bought an ice cream sandwich for everyone on Earth. The cost of $3.395 billion included a 0.50 sandwich from Walmart for each person.
The company could have also purchased Yahoo, Inc. Its market value according to Yahoo Finance is $20.069 billion.
BP could have also bought a 2010 Toyota Prius for each of BP’s 92,000 employees. The cars would cost $21,400 each for a total of $1.968 billion.
The company could also have purchased a copy of the book Sh*t My Dad Says for every user on Twitter. At $8.79 each of Amazon.com, the total for the books is $922 million.
BP could also have purchased Twitter itself for a cost of $1 billion, according to its 2009 valuation.
With the lost money, BP could add an island in the Bahamas to their purchases. Lighthouse Cay has four miles of beachfront and costs $33.3 million.
BP could also purchase a pogo stick for every elementary school kid in the U.S. At $25 each from Amazon.com, the toys would cost a total of $621.25 million.
BP could also supply a three-pack of condoms to every teenager in the U.S. If they got the 1,000 count discount packs from Amazon.com, the condoms would cost $8.45 million.
The lost income could also purchase an iPad for every college student in the U.S. at a total cost of $8.305 billion.
BP could purchase a trip to outer space for every U.S. Senator. At $30 million each from Space Adventures, the total cost would be $3 billion.
BP could also have purchased a year’s sponsorship for one million needy kids at Children International. At $22 per month per child, the total cost would be $264 million.
BP could buy a three-wolf t-shirt for every person in America. At $10.99 on Amazon.com, the total cost would be $3.432 billion. BP could also buy a second wolf shirt for every person in Idaho. At 10.99 each, the total would be $17 million.
The total cost of all of these items is $100,000,000,000. This is how much BP stock has lost as of June 2010. This doesn’t include the $3.5+ billion spent in recovery efforts so far.
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Oct 2010 09:42 Post subject: |
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I Want my god damn ice cream sandwhich
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chiv
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just think about all the talented people they COULD have hired to do a decent job faking all their press release photos.
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ixigia
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Oct 2010 13:18 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Oct 2010 13:18 Post subject: |
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i saw a documentary yesterday about bp and the lives that the have been lost since the sixties ,because of the decrease of security measures cause they had cut the 25% of the cost for the security,and one of the worst establishments
that they have in texas and a big blast that happened then
its a cemetary for workers lol
an american could inform us better ofcourse
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