CLASS ACTION lawyers are circling BP with plans to seek financial compensation for more than 14 million Americans who paid too much for heating and cooking fuel because the British oil company allegedly manipulated the market for propane. BP is alleged to have made $20 million (?£11 million) in illegal profits by cornering the US market for TET propane gas in early 2003 and 2004, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this week by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). .