Things you could do with the supposed £15billion it will cost BP to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil leak

Source: BP reports some success at using pipe to capture leaking oil

• Buy a year's worth of fresh beef for the entire world.
• Stage an Olympic Games - even if you mis calculate the cost at the start and it runs 7 times over budget
• Have a GDP that is the equivalent of the Estonia.
• Fund NASA for a year
• Poor scorn on S. Robson Walton, the owner of Wal-Mart and Forbes 18th richest man in the world, for being poorer than you.