No Bailout for BP

What BP Will Pay Under the Murkowski plan: $75,000,000 Actual Cost of Cleanup: 0

As the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig continues to spill over 1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf every day, Republicans are demanding less regulation for companies like BP and Transocean while also looking for a taxpayer-funded bailout of BP.

After a month of oil spewing into the Gulf, the cost of cleaning up BP's mess is $542 million and counting. But a group of Republican senators led by Lisa Murkowski of Alaska want the company to only pay for about the first five days of the cleanup and put taxpayers on the hook for everything else.

It's a straight-up bailout for BP, and it's outrageous.

But we can stop it.  Use this page to tell Murkowski and her Senate colleagues that it's time to end offshore drilling and focus on clean energy instead.