Notice to the oil companies

What are we supporting?

Chevron security forces attack villages

Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12285441.htm

Two small villages were attacked in Nigeria's oil-rich delta in January 1999.

Chevron had a receipt for the January 4 army raid, which left four villagers dead and nearly 70 missing and presumed dead, came to light only this summer as part of a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of the victims in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. It is being reported first on MercuryNews.com. The receipt also is among documents obtained by the Mercury News.

Barbara Enloe Hadsell, an attorney for the villagers said that in addition to paying the security forces, Chevron loaned them the helicopter that was used in the attack. She said Chevron personnel not only accompanied the soldiers as they flew to Robin Creek but also directed the pilot to ``deviate from his course'' to pursue villagers who were ``getting away.''

“Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” by John Perkins
In Chapter 24 he talks about the SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) that has connections with the Rockefeller charity funds. SIL is an evangelical missionary group from the US that works in collusion with the oil companies. For example, they entered Ecuador under the pretext of studying, recording, and translating indigenous languages. But what they really did was talk native tribes into deeding over their potentially oil filled land and moving into a missionary run reservation where they would receive free food, shelter, clothes, medical treatment and missionary-style education. They used underhanded tricks like heavily lacing the donated food with laxatives—then offering medicines to cure the diarrhea epidemic. They also “bugged” the baskets they sent things in so they could spy on them and appear “all-knowing”. One of the tribes caught on and five SIL “missionaries” were found full of spears.

Summary:

Source: Lancer Kind

Most if not all the Oil companies are in the business of divesting indigenous people of their land, destroying their homes, and damaging their property when they are in the way of oil. These rich corporations buy favors from the government so that often times officials look the other way. This is only going to get worse as the US government’s thirst for energy resources is fueled by our consumerism. Like it or not, we are what we purchase, and that money in turn is used by corporations to fund legislation put in place by our government.

Sites to research: http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/oil.html

We need transportation what do we do?

Maybe your next car should be a diesel.

Source: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_mikeadd.html

Cooking oil can fuel the car after it helps feed the driver

By John Wolfson
Seattle Times staff reporter

OLYMPIA -- It sounds like a fantasy tale or the wildest concoction of the wildest environmentalist, but the simple fact is this: With some cooking oil, a couple of chemicals and the right safety equipment, anybody can mix up a fuel that will power any diesel engine. If you drive a diesel car, you can do it, too, for about 60 cents a gallon.

City, state and federal agencies across the country -- including Tacoma garbage haulers -- are mixing biodiesel with regular petroleum diesel to improve air quality. Biodiesel use in the United States tripled between 2000 and 2001, to 15 million gallons.

Because the yellow grease is free -- besides the sweat and time it takes to get it -- the men can make their fuel for about 60 cents a gallon. They've so far made about 250 gallons using the latest version of Pelly's machine, and he figures he's close to offering a final version, one with larger tubes and better filtration, for sale to co-operatives and farmers. He hopes he can sell a unit for $3,000 or less.

His machine makes it dramatically easier to create biodiesel, with the biggest benefit that it shouldn't be necessary to actually touch the oil. But it's still a lot of work and will likely always be useful to only a subset of enthusiasts with the time and passion to make their own, similar in many ways to home-brewing beer.

But there would definitely be a market, says Dan Freeman, known as Dr. Dan to his Seattle customers who buy biodiesel from Dr. Dan's Alternative Fuel-Werks in Ballard. Freeman buys his biodiesel directly from a California company. He has been selling it for less than a year and already has 130 customers who pay $2.50 a gallon for the fuel, which is made from virgin, not recycled, soy oil.

Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/eastsidenews/2002439355_biodiesel13e.html

A new choice for Eastsiders' cars: biodiesel

By Natalie Singer Seattle Times Eastside bureau

Starting today, Eastsiders will be able to gas up their cars with clean-burning biodiesel fuel from a new station in Issaquah.

The fuel will be sold at The Grange, 145 N.E. Gilman Blvd., a widely known Issaquah farm-supply store.

Made from soybeans by Seattle Biodiesel, the fuel costs about $3.20 a gallon but is biodegradable and burns cleaner than regular diesel. It can be used in any vehicle that runs on diesel, including some Volkswagens, Mercedes and Jeeps, many pickups, commercial vehicles and boats. It can also be used for home-heating systems.

More links:

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor.html

http://www.biobuddy.com

http://www.biodiesel.org

http://www.climatesolutions.org

http://www.hydrogenappliances.com/bioD.html