The real price of oil.
source: http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/31/fdl-movie-night-presents-crude/
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"What a great movie! Crude is an environmental legal drama, a thriller and concert film all wrapped into one beautifully shot, fast-paced yet thoughtful and moving documentary about the vast and grotesque damage wrought by Texaco (which merged with Chevron in 2001) in the jungles of Ecuador.
Three years in the making, Joe Berliner's Crude takes us deep into Ecuador where the people of Cafon tribe and other indigenous and colonial people become the 30,000-strong plaintiffs against Chevron in a class-action lawsuit that has dragged on for over a decade. The largest piece of evidence is environment itself--an area the size of Rhode Island that is saturated with petrochemical residue and toxic waste. Oil floats on top the river water where people bathe, wash their clothes and draw water for food and cooking--and the people are dying."
Watch the trailer.
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Gravity_Man
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We need products made from crude oil but, do we need it for Energy? Drilling oil out of the ground seems to be a poor idea. It reduces the distance between US and the Earth's core, plus to push all the oil UP they pump water DOWN to pressure float it out.
When water gets heated by the superhot magma it explodes right? When water changes to Steam the volume instantly increases 800 times, or 800,000? 80,000%? And we're sitting on top of a POWDER KEG thanks to Chevron we live over a ticking damn time bomb.
The oil companies will do to the rest of us what they did to the tribe in Ecuador.
However, the coal company executives are all gloating too!, claiming there's 263,000,000 tons of coal yet to be mined out of American soil. So the oil company pulls out oil that keeps the tectonic plates gliding smoothly enough while the darn dang coal companies are wanting to mine the entire North American continent.
Well isn't that a fine Howdy Do.
We don't need either one. What we do need though is oil for products made from oil and all that can be grown just not in Ecuador.
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Gravity_Man
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Gravity_Man:
Here is just one great reason we don't need crude oil for our Energy => http://current.com/items/90834775_next-generation-wind-farm.htm
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Gravity_Man
