For me, what isn't commensurate is the notion that the foundation of the legislation would be the polluter pays principle, but then on the other hand, the only guaranteed payment pursuant to this legislation would be the absolute liability of one billion dollars. Thereafter, fault or negligence would have to be proven.
You're referencing historic spills. None has been as horrific as the Deepwater Horizon event, but as you point out, there have been others that were very serious. I think that once one starts to examine the impacts of these catastrophic spills through the lens not only of economic damages incurred, but also in terms of the environmental damages that are now, much more so than in the 1970s, 1980s, or even the 1990s, being quantified in ecological terms, in terms of damages to ecological systems, from plankton all the way up through, once one starts to calculate those kinds of damages, I think it's fair to say that the damages of these past spills have reached—