This is how you know BP has really crossed the line: When the company that gave us the Deepwater Horizon disaster and the 5-million-barrel oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has gone so far over the top with its efforts to challenge legitimate damage claims and to cheat on its promises to the Gulf that it's even angered Louisiana's rabidly pro-business governor, Bobby Jindal. Jindal has finally noticed something that we've been telling you about for months and months: That the company would rather spend millions of dollars telling you to come back to the Gulf because everything is just a-OK than it's willing to spend its huge bankroll on actually cleaning the still-polluted Gulf: Here's Jindal this week:
NEW ORLEANS – Gov. Bobby Jindal had some of his harshest words for BP on Wednesday, calling the oil giant out for spending more money on glossy advertising than on restoring the coast damaged by its 2010 oil spill.
“Three and a half years later, BP is spending more money -- I want you to hear this -- they are spending more money on television commercials than they have on actually restoring the natural resources they impacted,” Jindal said ...