How the American government punish BP for the oil mess in the Gulf?

It sounds like you are more interested in punishing than in solving.

You may become president someday.

You could not do worse than Obama on the oil spill.

Practice your kicking.

We are all told - repeatedly - that there is nothing more important than "the economy!" We are also told that "the economy" relies heavily upon businesses doing business, employing people and their wealth being re-distributed through the utterly farcical "trickle-down-theory." People are told, from the first day they can comprehend, that our "news" sources are reliable, that this society is the best we can get and that our betters are there because they have a God-given ability to lead. The 'protect BP' line comes from a fantastically misguided belief that BP have even an ounce of concern over the growing ecological disaster that is of their making: They don't care! The only concern BP has is for it's profit margins. Before a person awakens to the possibility that perhaps the priorities that we are given are not in our best interest - and many people never do! - they foolishly accept the theory that, in this case, one company making more money than most of us can even imagine while an ocean dies is far more important than that companies share value going south. Big businesses are destroying our planet (there is a reason why this is so, but I'm not going into that here) and all our "news" channels, which are owned by big-business, tell us we've never had it so good, that businesses are compassionate, that terrorists did it, that politicians are the ones to blame, etc etc. The reality is so damn frightening that I wish I'd never looked for it.

While punishment is a concept compatible with severe degrees of negligence, the emphasis should be on having BP pay for the damage that it has caused, including reimbursing the federal, state and local governments for their expenditures. A and b could be accomplished but the bankruptcy court would accomplish c.

If the wizards keep pushing BP they will just declare bankruptcy and the tax payer will have to pay.Telling a company if it can pay dividends is something dictators do not free nations.

Get from BP enough to pay the national debt...

Accidents happen they should've call GEICO, 15 minutes can save them 15% or more in insurance...

How about if we forbid them drilling where they'd prefer and forbid them using the better equipment their American division has?

Oh, wait. We already did that. That's WHY we have this problem.

How about just have our spineless president take a stand besides making a photo-op speech.

A and B, would work for me.

The rest he can't really do.

I agree

D - E and F are UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

d, e, and f are unconstitutional.