• Carl-Henric Svanberg (SWEDEN) - Chairman
• Andy Inglis (GREAT BRITAIN) - Chief executive, Exploration and Production
• Tony Hayward (GREAT BRITAIN) - CEO/MD BP Worldwide
• Ian Conn (SCOTLAND) - Executive Director, BP Group
• Byron Grote (AMERICAN) - Chief Financial Officer

• British Petroleum was a socialist experiment, nationalized by the United Kingdom, which owned 70 percent of the company from 1974 to the mid-1980s! Old socialist ways of thinking stayed with the company even after the U.K. sold off all its shares in the 1980s.
   
• Hard to believe this socialist background? It's true. In fact, it lasted even longer than the official record shows. After World War I, Winston Churchill, while First Lord of the Admiralty, bought a 50% stake in British Petroleum for the nation. That gave the Government a half-interest. Then, in 1974, the Bank of England bought a 25% stake from Burmah Oil, which made the U.K. Government directly or indirectly BP's unquestionable majority shareholder, which thus made it technically "nationalized," even though it had decades of Government intervention by that time.

• The most important foreign investment in the United States today is BP's Alaskan holdings, which include the ownership of almost half of the Trans Alaska Pipeline and more than half of the oil in the rich Prudhoe Bay oil field.
• The Prudhoe Bay find contained upwards of 40 percent of the entire nation's proven oil reserves - not counting our vast offshore oil reserves, which may now face political doom.

So BP won't mind losing offshore oil production as much if it can get assurances to increase production from its on-shore Alaska holdings.

But think of what that means to the oil rigs and crews that have been producing offshore oil safely and efficiently for decades. BP will sell them out by putting its huge lobbying clout behind Obama's energy policy - CO2 emissions rules that will shut down whole industries; sky-high gasoline prices; rationing electricity with "smart grid" controls that provide what you're allowed, not what you're willing to pay for.

Don't forget: BP regularly lobbies on Capitol Hill. In 2009, BP spent a massive $16 million to influence legislation. During the first quarter of 2010, it spent $3.53 million on federal lobbying efforts, ranking it second (behind ConocoPhillips) among all oil and gas industry interests.

When you have that much lobbying clout preaching roll-over-and-play-dead for Obama, our traditional oil and gas industries will really be dead.

Only a serious investigation can reveal what BP is doing to American politics!

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