document: Coast Guard Commandant Paul A. Yost on Tuesday attacked Exxon 's plan to clean up the Alaskan oil spill . Consumers , politicians and environmentalists expressed their anger in a one-day `` Boycott Exxon '' campaign . Yost , the top federal official tracking the environmental disaster , said Exxon 's plan was poorly drafted and lacking in specifics . But he stopped short of rejecting it , saying he wanted to meet with Exxon and state officials . In Washington , consumer activist Ralph Nader said Exxon `` should not be allowed to forget '' the spill and that a boycott would send the oil giant a message . He and others blasted Exxon for failing to be prepared for the spill and not rapidly responding to the accident that fouled hundreds of miles of Alaska 's coast . They also questioned subsequent increases in gas prices . `` We are beginning the war of words and actions against any oil company that does n't understand its responsibility to protect the environment , '' Massachusetts state Sen. Carol Amick told a boycott rally in Boston . In Anchorage , about 400 chanting and sign-waving protesters rallied in front of Exxon 's Alaskan headquarters to urge a consumer boycott . J. Edward Surette Jr. , executive director of the Bay State Gasoline Retailers Association in Billerica , Mass. , said it was too early to assess the boycott 's impact . Exxon spokeswoman Sarah Johnson said 10,000 credit cards out of 7 million have been cut up and returned to the company since the spill . The oil company 's cleanup strategy must gain Yost 's approval before being put into effect . Yost said he would make a decision on the proposal within a week . `` The plan is very thin , '' he told a news briefing . `` There 's not a lot of backup or substantiation . It was quite light , very thin . There must have been a lot of figures there that I have n't seen . `` We are going to be done this summer , '' Yost said . `` Some beaches are going to be sparkling , some beaches are going to be far from sparkling . '' Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner , who is to make his second trip to Alaska on Wednesday as overall coordinator for the cleanup , said he expected the size of the operation to double or triple by the end of the month . In a speech at the National Press Club in Washington , Skinner called the spill `` the most significant environmental disaster this nation has ever faced . '' However , he said the cleanup , to be paid for by the oil industry , could add $ 100 million to $ 500 million to Alaska 's economy , which he said is more than the effect of the fishing industry . Exxon released a statement that called the boycott unjust . Exxon President William D. Stevens said the company was `` turning heaven and Earth to set things right . '' Exxon 's 60-page , two-part revised strategy to cleanse some 364 miles of Alaska 's coastline of the oil spilled March 24 by the tanker Exxon Valdez was released Monday . The tanker struck a reef 25 miles from Valdez , spilling more than 10 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound . About 300 miles from the spill site , an observer saw thousands of dead birds in a wide tidal basin in the Hallo Bay area . `` We saw 2,000 to 3,000 dead birds . ... You ca n't really tell what they are . They 're one big blob of oil , '' said Ray Bane , superintendent of Katmai National Park , about 275 miles southwest of Valdez . `` We found large oil debris washing and slopping up on our shores . ... It was very bad , '' Bane said . `` We saw eagles carrying oil-covered birds . We saw one eagle so coated in oil that it could n't fly . '' State and federal officials said the focus of the cleanup is moving southwest , following the drifting oil along the Alaska Peninsula through the Shelikof Strait east of Kodiak Island . Oil has tainted the coast at least as far as Chignik , 525 miles southwest of Valdez . The tanker is undergoing preliminary repairs in the sound , and is to be moved next month to Portland , Ore. , home of the only drydock on the West Coast capable of handling the 987-foot ship . In its proposal , Exxon said it wants to burn or bury the sludge recovered in the cleanup , which may require exemptions from Alaska environmental law . But Bill Lamoreaux , the ranking state environmental officer at the spill , said the laws would not be relaxed . `` The general feeling is that we would expect that they would comply with the environmental laws , '' Lamoreaux said . Exxon 's plan also notes that 191 miles of coastline it describes as `` lightly oiled '' may be left untouched to be cleansed naturally by wind and water . Lamoreaux said , `` When we talk about ` light oiling , ' it does n't mean it wo n't have a devastating effect on wildlife . '' U.S. Sens. James Exon and Bob Kerrey , both Nebraska Democrats , called on U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to investigate potential price gouging by the oil industry . They noted that gas prices in Nebraska rose 20 percent from the first of March until mid-April . State attorneys general in Washington , Oregon and Idaho echoed the call . Since the Exxon Valdez accident , gas prices have increased an average 10 percent nationally , while the Northwest saw surges as high as 25 percent in less than a month , said Marla Rae , executive assistant to Oregon Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer . At a news conference in Houston , Exxon President Stevens said it showed `` shocking naivete '' to blame the price hikes on his company . `` As you know , '' he told reporters , `` the market for petroleum products is set by thousands of markets , thousands of independent dealers across the nation . ''
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