Kick Ass or Buy Gas: How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BPs Disaster Through the Pentagon http://coto2.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/kick-ass-or-buy-gas-how-taxpayers-are-subsidizing-bps-disaster-through-the-pentagon/

Residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are livid with BP in the wake of the massive, never-ending oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and Barack Obama says they ought to be. But there’s one aspect of the BP story that most of those angry residents of the Gulf states aren’t aware of. And the president hasn’t had a thing to say about it.

Even as tar balls hit Gulf beaches, tax dollars are subsidizing BP. So far, President Obama has not shown the slightest indication that he plans to stop their flow into BP coffers, despite the recent call of Public Citizen, a watchdog group, to end the nation’s business dealings with the company. In fact, the Department of Defense, which has a long-standing, multi-billion dollar business relationship with BP, tells TomDispatch that it has no plans to sever current business ties or curtail future contracts with the oil giant.