SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PLANET: Boycott British Petroleum

This is an original letter to you, not forwarded. It may be the most important
document that you read in some time. Please feel free to circulate this to those who you
feel might be equally concerned.

This letter concerns the massive oil gusher....not oil "Leak".....in the Gulf of
Mexico caused by the incredible shortsightedness, selfishness and arrogance of the oil
giant British Petroleum.
Please take the time to read this letter and forward it to everyone you know who might
be as concerned as you should be to the following subject.

I am asking that you BOYCOTT British Petroleum interests and consider permanent
alternatives to their products; please "Google" British Petroleum for all associated
companies that are registered as subsidiaries of this company.

British Petroleum may well have caused what will become the greatest environmental
disaster our planet Earth has ever faced.
Please read on.
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My name is P. Clay Sherrod, and among many other hats that I wear I am a planetary
evolution scientist and have served as an environmental and science development consultant
for many corporations, schools and organizations worldwide since 1970; I have made a
substantial mark in energy conservation and in global climate change awareness since 1975,
before the subject became popular fodder for politicians and entertainers. My position on
the decline of Mother Earth as a life-supporting world has remained unchanged in these
days of unrestricted overpopulation and over-development of urban areas.
I am highly respected in the fields of astronomy, archeology, earth/environmental
sciences and evolutionary biology.
The need for energy is great in a world where the population continues to double at an
alarming rate. In 1982 I designed and blueprinted for the Department of Energy the Solar
Powered Electromagnetic-Hydrodynamic Generator through a proprietary energy consulting
firm to the US DOE and continue to serve in a development and consulting capacity for
several Fortune 500 companies in technology instrumentation, energy conservation and
eco-industrial development and its relation to global climate change impact. My lectures
to organizations and institutions on the subject of the ruination of Planet Earth are
requested and respected throughout the United States. The subject of primary interest by
these audiences: The loss of Mother Earth as a supporting structure for all life in the
foreseeable future.
Most importantly, I am an advocate for all living things on this planet - oak trees,
raccoons, fish, plankton - not just human beings.
We are all equally important in the world of biology, yet humans are the only one of
our billions of species who destroy their environment for purposes other than simple
survival.
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To preface what you are about to read, please remember that the oil gusher is
something different than we normally fuss about over morning coffee:

* This is NOT an "oil spill"; it did not simply happen and we need to clean it
up.....every day is seeing another one million gallons of crude oil dumping into the Gulf
of Mexico....this is not a temporary problem.
* There is not, nor there ever was, any plan whatsoever to deal with what has happened, we
simply do not fully understand the ramifications of what might result from this oil
gusher....
* The residual damage of this will be realized for decades, not just months; it will be
felt in food shortages, economic collapse, the extinction forever of hundreds of specifies
of already endangered wildlife, loss of jobs and a major economic decline for the
industrial world.

After two weeks of irresponsible and inactive solutions to the presently uncontrolled
gusher of oil spilling from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, it is becoming quite evident
that neither our government nor British Petroleum (BP) is concerned of the magnitude of
this catastrophe.
Nor do they have any idea as to how to contain it. Quite simply, it is out of
control.
Oil is flooding from the sea floor at an estimated (by BP) 210,000 gallons daily since
an oil rig exploded two weeks ago at a British Petroleum offshore drilling site. On May 4,
after a meeting with BP executives, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) said they warned him that oil
flow could grow to as much as 2 million gallons a day.

To compound the arrogant approach to this ecological Armageddon, BP officials have
seemingly continued to issue false statements and misleading "facts" to abate the outrage
over the oil gusher:

1) the first reports were that the gushing oil was releasing an alarming 43,000
gallons of crude per day; this figure has since been updated to another "estimate" of
240,000 gallons per day, when in fact it appears that the total release could be on the
order of 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 gallons daily. Please remember that the "leak" has been
on-going since April 28 and continues without restriction to this day.

2) As it turns out, BP was well aware of the actual numbers from the first day of the
"spill"; it has been verified that part of the reason for the collapse of the Deep Sea
Horizon was that it was being converted from an "exploratory well" to a "production well"
because of the enormous output of oil surging from the tapped oil resource four miles
below the ocean floor.

3) BP was issued a drilling permit for an EXPLORATORY DRILLING operation for the
Horizon, not a production permit; the exploratory drilling had no backup plan in case of a
leak or spill, nor was any safety valve or diversion technique in place one mile under the
surface of the pristine Gulf waters for this well, NOR for many other similar BP drilling
rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

4) The first excuse for the platform explosion and subsequent gusher of oil was that a
"piece of equipment" - a pipe - had failed which we have now been told by BP is not the
case: it was the conversion from exploratory equipment beneath the surface to production
equipment that led to the surge of methane gas into the drilling pipes and subsequently
into the platform that created the explosion. Once again, there was no "safety net" in
place....no provision in case "a pipe broke" or a rig pulled away from its drilling
position.

5) One week after the accident, we have now been informed that there is not ONE leak,
but THREE.

6) Among the incredibly innovative (read: "short-sighted") solutions dealing with the
existing oil have been: a) burning it off the ocean surface [pollute the air in addition
to the water]; b) soak it up with absorbent materials [not enough around the world to even
get the first day's oil]; 3) place containment barriers around the oil to keep it confined
[it reached the pristine beaches of Dauphne Island, Alabama on Sunday morning]; 5) use
dispersement chemicals to break down the oil into smaller globules [ceased on May 8
because of toxins in the applicant, and the realization "is it really easier to deal with
a bazillion tiny droplets of oil rather than just ONE big one?"]; 6) putting the famous
four-story "dome" atop the leak to contain it and pump that out to the surface [and some
underwater drilling engineer simply forgot that the tremendous pressures at one mile below
the ocean surface was enough to freeze water in the outflow pipe]....and the list goes on.

We should TRUST this company?
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Immediately after the gusher began polluting the waters of one of our greatest natural
areas, American President Barack Obama announced that it was one of the greatest "natural
disasters" we might be facing.

"NATURAL DISASTER?" My friends, this is no natural disaster: this was man-made and
Mother Nature has had nothing to do with it.
Let's not blame this one on God.

Contrarily, all of nature is at risk from this epic BP-made disaster. Already,
hundreds of endangered sea turtles are washing up dead on coastal beaches; the wetland
bogs of southern Louisiana and Alabama are now taking on oil, in the nesting homes of the
remarkable pelican and up to 400 other species of this remarkable planet.

Please stop and think for a moment that this oil spill can - and WILL, if unabated as
it appears it is going to be - kill every living thing in the Gulf of Mexico. Not only
are we talking about an enormous new Dead Sea (extinct of dolphins, swordfish, Portuguese
Man-of-War, pelicans, red snapper, shrimp, oysters.....) with black beaches, but this
disaster can lead up to the world's greatest environmental change that has not been caused
by the Earth itself.

No longer do we need volcanoes, hurricanes, tsunami, earthquakes, floods,
sandstorms......we have BP and a totally ineffective Federal Government to lead us into
what well may be the biggest ecological and economic crisis this world has ever seen.

"Natural Disaster." That statement should have been an indication of how things were
going to progress the weeks following the oil gusher. Committee meetings, dinners with
committee members, congressional outrage to impress constituents at home, our Secretaries
of the Interior and "Homeland Security" making bi-weekly trips to the Gulf to see what new
creatures are washing up dead on the coastline, with promises to make things right.

We have our nation's Gulf fishermen down there fighting not only for their
livelihoods, but also for the lands and waters that they love and know better than any
Committee that Congress or BP might put together. And it appears that they are fighting
this war alone....and losing.
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The arrogance of Big Oil and the audacity of our government leaders to waste away the
vital and valuable seconds, each of which is spewing more and more toxic crude oil into
the Gulf and ultimately to our empty dinner tables.

I pray for the thousands of specifies of living things - every single on of them equally
important, if not more so than the oil executives and members of our ineffective
governmental leaders. They are at the mercy of careless and non-caring humans who know
nothing of the world other than it owes them a living.

In the past two days the majority of our elected representatives and senators to
Washington have reaffirmed their beliefs that we should EXPAND offshore deep well drilling
of the kind that has led to this epic disaster. What? Is this the same mentality that
states that the broken pipe on the bottom of the Gulf floor is a "natural Disaster?"

BOYCOTT BP. Boycott British Petroleum. Boycott every subsidiary of British Petroleum.
And consider please boycotting your elected officials to Washington: they seem to have
less going for them than the Dolphins of the Gulf of Mexico. Perhaps they are the true
"Natural Disasters" on Mother Earth.
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Thank you for taking time to read.....and don't just sit there: do something about this.
The People Still Rule......or at least they should.

Clay
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Dr. P. Clay Sherrod
Arkansas Sky Observatories
MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South
MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain
MPC H43 - Conway West
http://www.arksky.org/