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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 13, 2013, 6:03 pm
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[center]OCEAN GOING OIL TANKERS[/center]
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[center]One EACH, EXTERNALIZED POLLUTION cost
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In 2005, 2.42 billion metric tons of oil were shipped by tanker.
In 2006, 76.7% of this was crude oil, and the rest consisted of
refined petroleum products. This amounted to 34.1% of all
seaborne trade for the year. Combining the amount carried with
the distance it was carried, oil tankers moved 11,705 billion
metric-ton-miles of oil in 2005.
By comparison, in 1970 1.44 billion metric tons of oil were
shipped by tanker. This amounted to 34.1% of all seaborne trade
for that year. In terms of amount carried and distance carried,
oil tankers moved 6,487 billion metric-ton-miles of oil in 1970.
The main loading ports in 2005 were located in Western Asia,
Western Africa, North Africa, and the Caribbean, with 196.3,
196.3, 130.2 and 246.6 million metric tons of cargo loaded in
these regions.
The main discharge ports were located in North America, Europe,
and Japan with 537.7, 438.4, and 215.0 million metric tons of
cargo discharged in these regions.
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No big deal in cost or infrastructure, the fossil fuelers claim
(never mind the yearly ocean pollution from spills AND normal
operation...). Looky here, how CHEAP it is to move crude around!
And please be charitable with their use of the word "efficiency"
as if either pipelines or tankers WERE ENERGY GENERATING
ENGINES!
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Second only to pipelines in terms of efficiency,
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the average cost
of oil transport by tanker amounts to only two or three United
States cents per 1 US gallon (3.8 L).
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That COST figure above is a GIANT, BOLD FACED LIE! Only through
extremely creative accounting (accelerated depreciation,
ignoring energy used to mine, refine and manufacture the tankers
and pipes themselves and, OF COURSE, "cooperation" from finance
capital for low interest, long term financing and oil loving
national NON-regulations) can they come up with that "TWO to
THREE cents per US gallon FICTION.
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The world's largest supertanker was built in 1979 at the Oppama
shipyard by Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. as the Seawise
Giant. This ship was built with a capacity of 564,763 DWT, a
length overall of 458.45 metres (1,504.1 ft) and a draft of
24.611 metres (80.74 ft). She had 46 tanks, 31,541 square metres
(339,500 sq ft) of deck, and at her full load draft, could not
navigate the English Channel.
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The above is the 1979 GIANT polluting pig compared with
SKYSCRAPERS. Please NOTE the capacity of 564,763 DWT.
The latest ones aren't quite that big but they are still REALLY
BIG PIGS!
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[I]Hellespont Alhambra (now TI Asia), a ULCC TI class
supertanker, which are the largest ocean-going oil tankers in
the world[/i]
As of 2011, the world's two largest working supertankers are the
TI class supertankers TI Europe and TI Oceania. These ships were
built in 2002 and 2003 as the Hellespont Alhambra and Hellespont
Tara for the Greek
Each of the sister ships has a capacity of over 441,500 DWT, a
length overall of 380.0 metres (1,246.7 ft) and a cargo capacity
of 3,166,353 barrels (503,409,900 l). They were the first ULCCs
to be double-hulled. ;) (agelbert note: They were SCHEDULED TO
BE BUILT DOUBLE HULLED IN THE 1980S BUT Reagan STOPPED THAT SO
THE POOR BABIES
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/>WOULDN'T SUFFER PROFIT REDUCTION! Thank you, REAGAN, for EXXON
VALDEZ!)To differentiate them from smaller ULCCs, these ships
are sometimes given the V-Plus size designation.
OIL TANKER DWT:
1970-1980 8.0 million DWT
1980-1990 8.7 million DWT
1990-2000 20.8 million DWT
In 2005, 475 new oil tankers were built, accounting for 30.7
million DWT.
The average size for these new tankers was 64,632 DWT. Nineteen
of these were VLCC size, 19 were suezmax, 51 were aframax, and
the rest were smaller designs.
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This looks like an industry that IS EXPANDING, not contracting.
This looks like an industry that will do everything it can to
PREVENT a transition Renewable Energy (30.7 million DWT
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Renewable Energy really IS cheap. That is why the fossil fuelers
want to kill it. As MKing would say, it's not personal; it's
just "business".
[move][I]Unavoidable conclusions about oil tankers from people
with a few neurons to rub together that aren't shills for the
fossil fuel industry. [/I] 8)[/move]
1) The oceans of the world would be much less polluted without
them. If you don't agree, just google annual oil tanker spills
and accidents for the last 50 years. This cost is IGNORED by the
MKings of this world when they study cost/supply curves. Then
there are the trains, the trucks, gasoline stations, the giant
tank facilities all over the world, the refineries, etc. NONE OF
THAT cost exists for Renewable Energy! And don't forget that
coal is even WORSE!
2) They don't generate ANY energy, use enormous amounts of
energy to build, including the metals and machinery mining,
refining and manufacturing. YET, not ONE article from a fossil
fueler mentions this when wailing and moaning about those "huge"
energy costs to build wind turbines and solar panels!
3) They DO NOT last as long as solar panels or wind turbines,
which, unlike oil tankers, can be nearly 100% recycled without
pollution or high energy costs.
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> [size=12pt][color=red]In 2005, the average age of oil tankers
worldwide was 10 years. Of these, 31.6% were under 4 years old
and 14.3% were over 20 years old.
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Consequently, no rational accountant could claim that oil
tankers are a prudent investment as a "cost effective business
expense". Do you know how tankers are "recycled"? YEP! Using
MORE energy and generating MORE pollution and health problems
for the poor saps working in scrapping yards. Another COST that
we-the-people PAY and big oil IGNORES. The fossil fuel industry
is 100% WASTE BASED![/color][/size]
Now dear readers, do you expect ANY of these conspiracy theory
FACTS will be discussed rationally by the fossil fuelers like
MKing? Of course not. They know what they are defending is, in
purely logical terms, not defendable.
So, they use ridicule, hyperbole, exaggeration, denial of facts,
avoid apples to apples energy use comparisons like the plague
and just generally wing it!
1. For anyone doubting the scale of the massive dead weight on
the planet that the fossil fuel industry is, just add up all the
pipes, tankers, drill rigs, refineries, gasoline stations, port
facilities exclusively used for oil, natural gas and coal,
trains, trucks, recycling in scrap yards, pollution and health
costs, bought politicians and last but absolutely essential,
the goon squad expenses needed to make fossil fuel "profits".
2. NOW, ADD that to the cost of making internal combustion
engines and fossil fuel power plants.
3. Last step: COMPARISON WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY
Add NONE OF THE ABOVE to the cost of making wind turbines, solar
panels and any other renewable energy technology you can think
of. :o
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I do. MKing does too. That's why he won't go there. The moment
he becomes part of the reality based community, he has no
argument.
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 22, 2014, 2:33 pm
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Largest Power Company in U.S. Joins ALEC in Plot Against One
State’s Solar Revolution
Greenpeace | January 22, 2014 11:06 am |
By David Pomerantz
The new hot spot for solar energy in the U.S. is North Carolina.
The state was second in the nation in solar growth in 2013,
behind only California.
In fact, if U.S. states were considered as countries, North
Carolina
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solar growth last year.
All of that solar growth, driven by policies like the state’s
renewable energy portfolio law, has been great for the North
Carolina economy, generating $1.7 billion in revenue for the
state. At the end of 2012, 137 solar companies employed 1,400
people in North Carolina—a number that increased during solar’s
record 2013 year.
But while North Carolina’s solar sector shines brighter, a cloud
is approaching on the horizon that places all of the benefits of
solar power at risk of disappearing: Duke Energy, the state’s
monopoly utility and the largest power company in the country,
is about to launch a major attack on solar energy.
On Jan. 7, Duke’s president of North Carolina operations, Paul
Newton
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/>fired the first shots of the war. Speaking in front of a joint
energy committee of the state’s legislature, Newton attacked net
metering, one of the key policies to North Carolina’s solar
growth.
Net metering allows customers with rooftop solar panels to get
credit for any extra electricity that they send back to the
grid, like rollover minutes on a cell phone bill.
Newton argued that solar customers aren’t “paying their fair
share” to Duke, and that his company would thus be forced to
charge higher rates to all of its other customers in response.
Those allegations are false. A study conducted last year showed
that the benefits of rooftop solar in North Carolina—even for
customers who don’t have the panels—would outweigh any costs by
30 percent. That’s because as more homes and businesses go
solar, Duke wouldn’t have to keep building expensive gas and
coal plants and raising rates on its customers to finance them.
Those rate benefits are aside from the job creation, climate and
public health positives of solar power.
But Duke’s shareholders profit by building those gas and coal
plants, :P which is exactly why rooftop solar is in the
crosshairs.
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Duke’s key ally in its war on solar: ALEC
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Duke isn’t the first utility in the country to attack net
metering; utilities in California, Arizona and Colorado began
similar campaigns in 2013, and others are forming battle plans
now.
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In December, The Guardian newspaper revealed that these power
companies have been coordinating their efforts under the guise
of the American Legislative Exchange Council, (ALEC), a group
that lets corporations like Duke ghostwrite laws for right-wing
state legislators.
Many utilities are ALEC members, and they have made it ALEC’s
top priority to attack net metering laws around the country.
Forty percent of North Carolina state lawmakers are ALEC
members, and Duke will rely on them to do their bidding.
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So far, Duke and ALEC’s communications strategy has been to
stigmatize solar energy as being only for the wealthy.
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Their argument is that we shouldn’t be letting rich families
with solar panels get even richer on the backs of non-solar
households.
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It wouldn’t be surprising if early adopters of solar do have
higher incomes, since buying the panels involves an upfront
cost. But recent research shows that solar penetration is
increasingly happening in middle class neighborhoods. In any
case, if ALEC and utilities are so worried about the poor, they
should be trying to give more solar access to working and middle
class communities, since it will help them save money, not take
away their chance to go solar by attacking policies like net
metering.
The idea that the nation’s power companies, which have raised
rates on customers to pad corporate profits and sited coal
plants in the nation’s poorest communities for decades, suddenly
want to act as champions for social justice doesn’t pass the
smell test.
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Duke will eventually learn to bask in the
sun.
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A few days after Newton went in front of the legislature to
attack solar policies, Duke Energy’s Facebook and Twitter feeds
started bragging, amazingly, about North Carolina’s solar
growth:
It’s not the only public display of support for solar power Duke
has shown in recent months. Previous CEO Jim Rogers said that he
saw rooftop solar as an opportunity as much as a threat, and in
March, Duke bought a stake of a distributed solar power
financing company, Clean Power Finance.
Were these moves signs that Duke is embracing the solar
revolution, or just greenwashing? Both answers may be true: Duke
is feeling its way around the edges of solar opportunities while
it mostly stalls for time by attacking net metering. One thing
that would hasten Duke’s solar transition is if it loses on net
metering, since that would force the company to more quickly
come to terms with the inevitability of rooftop solar.
A Duke loss on net metering is far from a given, considering
Duke and ALEC’s almost unlimited influence in North Carolina
politics.
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/>But for all of Duke’s money and political power, it can’t
change
a simple reality: Rooftop solar is immensely popular. A 2013
poll showed that 88 percent of North Carolinians support solar
energy. Last year, when ALEC attacked North Carolina’s renewable
energy law, the effort failed because Republicans in the
legislature recognized solar power as a job creator. In fact,
ALEC’s efforts to attack renewable energy laws failed in every
state where it tried in 2013.
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Now, solar advocates will gear up to bat away the next attack
wave in 2014. The sooner they win, the sooner utilities like
Duke will have to face the music and realize that they need to
join their customers in the sun.
Visit EcoWatch’s RENEWABLES page for more related news on this
topic.
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Agelbert NOTE: This is just one more example of uncompetitive
fossil fuel corporations constantly gaming the energy playing
field to make Renewable energy, which is CHEAPER, as well as
being clean, appear more expensive than the PROHIBITIVELY
EXPENSIVE (without subsidies and corruption) FOSSIL FUELS!
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CROOKED BASTARDS!
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 22, 2014, 9:25 pm
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Don't Believe the Dirty Lie
The fossil fuels industry and their lobbyists are always telling
us that we can't afford not to use their dirty energy. Fossil
fuels are abundant and cheap, they say. Renewables can't do the
job, they argue, and switching to them would cripple our
economy. But it's all a Dirty Lie.
Greenpeace: Don't believe the dirty lie It's time we started
pushing back. The Dirty Lie is constantly repeated by coal and
oil industry lobbyists and their friends in Congress. We need
your help to call out the Dirty Lie whenever and wherever we
find it.
How can you help call out the Dirty Lie?
When you come across the Dirty Lie being repeated without
challenge, report it to us via Facebook, Twitter, or Delicious.
In turn, we'll let you know how you can help call out the worst
offenders. Get the full scoop here: How you can help call out
the Dirty Lie.
We put together a factsheet to help you recognize the Dirty Lie
when you see it. You can view the factsheet below, or
right-click this link and choose "Save Link As" to download the
PDF: Dirty Lie Factsheet.
How do we know it's a Dirty Lie? ???
We teamed up with more than 30 scientists and engineers from
universities, institutes, and the renewable energy industry to
create our new report, Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable USA
Energy Outlook. The report lays down a blueprint for how we
ensure our emissions peak by 2015, as the Nobel prize-winning
IPCC says they must if we’re to avoid runaway global warming,
while phasing out nuclear and fossil fuel energy. It also shows
how we can provide about 96% of our electricity from renewable
sources by 2050, growing our economy and creating 1.1 million
jobs in the renewables sector alone by 2030 in the process.
Dirty Lie Factsheet
Published by Greenpeace
We’ve all heard the arguments from Big Oil and King Coal:
“Without coal and oil, energy and gas prices would go through
the roof;” or “We have to use domestic coal and oil reserves to
ensure our energy security;” and “Renewables can’t do the job,
so we have to keep using fossil fuels.”
That’s the Dirty Lie: The idea, heavily promoted by coal and oil
industry lobbyists and their friends in Congress, that there is
no remedy for our addiction to fossil fuels. But the truth is
that with today’s technology, we can continue to grow our
economy while phasing out fossil fuels altogether.
Dirty Lie #1: Oil and coal are cheap and plentiful
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Despite wildly volatile price swings, Fossil
Fuel companies love to claim that their products are
cheap and virtually unlimited. The truth is that they’re only
cheap if you don’ t count the billions of dollars paid
in cleanup costs from oil spills, the public health
costs of water and air pollution, and the lives and
livelihoods lost to accidents and illness. And plentiful? Oil
and coal companies are using untested technology and taking
unprecedented risks to wring out every last ounce of fossil fuel
from the ends of the earth, including oil drilling miles under
the surface of the ocean.
Dirty Lie #2: Renewables like wind and solar can’t do the
job
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Greenpeace’s Energy Revolution report lays out a practical path
to a virtually coal and oil free economy, while at the same time
phasing out ALL of our nuclear plants. On its own, greater
energy efficiency can account for the projected increase in our
energy demands. A diverse and highly localized combination of
things like electric vehicles, small-scale and large-scale wind
and solar projects, and smart grids can supply the rest. The
truth is, renewable energy can power the US economy, and we can
start right now.
Dirty Lie #3: Switching to renewables will hurt the economy
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In spite of the global recession that has bottomed out many
global industries, renewable energy, and wind in particular,
grew by 40% last year. Already, the wind industry employs more
people than the coal industry. And recently, our biggest
economic competitor—China—surpassed the US as the world’s
largest investor in renewable energy. Renewable energy is the
key to the 21st century economy, and the longer we are stuck on
fossil fuels, the further behind we will be.
Dirty Lie #4: Oil and coal companies are part of the solution
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Fossil fuel companies love to tout their “commitment”
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sources.
But while they’re spending millions on green washing ad
campaigns, many are also spending millions to confuse the public
about issues like climate change. Exxon, for example, gave $1.3
million to climate denial organizations last year. And don’t
forget that BP has held itself up as“ beyond petroleum” for
years.
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: February 20, 2014, 2:54 pm
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Yellowstone Bison Slaughter Underway ??? :( :'(
James Dinan
Published: February 20, 2014
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[move] >:( The Fossil Fuelers are Winning their Pyrrhic
"victory" over the Biosphere:[/move]
Even In Perpetual Darkness, Arctic Sea Ice Coverage Drops To
Record Lows :( >:(
By Ryan Koronowski
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This North Dakota Oil Town Has The Highest Rent In The Country
::) >:(
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With more than 7,000 oil and gas wells and 5,500 more already
approved, the Eagle Ford shale play in Texas is one of the most
active drilling sites in the nation. But according to a new
investigation, Texas is failing to adequately monitor the site’s
emissions, which is leading to health concerns for nearby
residents. :P >:(
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Birds, Bombs, Sharks Slow Offshore Wind From UK to Germany >:(
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Japan FIT Changes Reflect End of Residential PV Program and
Delay in Non-residential Projects >:(
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Idaho Bill Would Get Rid Of All EPA Regulations In The State
>:(
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U.K. Wind Expansion Scrapped on Concern Birds May Be Harmed >:(
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Agelbert NOTE:Do you see how this is DONE? Big Oil uses EXCUSES
about environmental "damage" which are NOT TRUE to CASTRATE
renewable energy while they continue to dismantle ENVIRONMENTAL
LAWS so they can continue to pollute the shit out of the
biosphere. >:(
The next time some fence straddling asshole tells you it is a
"complex subject that requires much study and no hasty
conclusions", remember to tell them they are FULL OF SHIT! 8)
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Who Needs A Livable Climate? I’ve Got A Job!! (Shell Video)
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 1, 2014, 2:00 pm
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Who Needs A Livable Climate? I’ve Got A Job!! (Shell Video)
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Originally published on Planetsave.
A facilities engineer for Shell is featured in the video below
in order to inform us of how swell it is to work for Shell. You
know, if you can just block out that whole “destroying the
world” thing. Anything for a little money, eh?
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Truthfully, this video really stands out to me for how it
demonstrates what gets people into this industry — It’s a job.
Perhaps even a high-paying job. In an office. For a big company.
40 hours a week helping to bring down human civilization and
countless species. What’s not to love?
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However, I’ll come back to the crux of the matter: as much as
“evil” oil suppliers are to blame, demanders are many more times
to blame. Oil companies and simple people like the lady in this
video are supplying a demand. If we pull out the demand, there
will be no such jobs. Instead, there will be jobs in much
cleaner bike, electric car, and public transit industries.
If you are opposed to destroying society and/or countless
species, stop driving gasmobiles and go solar!
Read more at
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Agelbert COMMENT:
... the so-called customers that feed the fossil fuel burning
greedballs at the top have been continuously forced out of green
alternatives by the fossil fuel 'bought- and-paid-fors' in
government.
I have written extensively about how Big Oil has engineered (for
about 100 years!) tax payer rip offs called "subsidies", fake
oil shortages for profit and wars.
Throughout this period, Big Oil gamed the energy market and
consumer choices starting with Prohibition (No, it was not about
booze; it was about making ethanol illegal so Rockefeller could
corner the fuel market!) and extending through the 1980s when
solar and wind renewable energy were crushed in their infancy.
Hand in hand with all this corruption and propaganda that fossil
fuels were "Cheaper"
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came
the "new ice age" baloney.
It's a long, sordid story and they are still at it to this day.
FossilFuel Industry's SECRET MOTTO
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Don't Believe the Dirty Lie
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That's Alright, Isn't It----Everyone Is Doing It SO it must be
OK?
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How the Promise of Chemurgy Was Dashed By Big Oil
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr: "In the next decade there will be an epic
battle for survival for humanity against the forces of ignorance
and greed. It’s going to be Armageddon, represented by the oil
industry on one side, versus the renewable industry on the
other. And people are going to have to choose sides – including
politically. They will have to choose sides because oil and
coal, they will not be able to survive – they are not going to
be able to burn their proven reserves. If they do, then we are
all dead. And they are quite willing to burn it. We’re all going
to be part of that battle. We are going to watch governments
being buffeted by the whims of money and greed on one side, and
idealism and hope on the other."
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What Are the Koch Brothers Working Towards?
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Date: April 14, 2014, 2:43 pm
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What Are the Koch Brothers
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SustainableBusiness.com News
It seems that whatever the issue is, the Koch Brothers are
there, even ones you wouldn't expect them to be interested in -
like GMO agriculture or health care.
Given that their fortune comes from oil and chemicals, it's
understandable that they would be against mass transit and the
growth of renewable energy.
We're pointing this out because they are going further than any
individuals have gone, literally building out their own national
campaign infrastructure with hundreds of employees across 32
states so far. In the first four months of 2014, they have
already spent over $30 million on the mid-term campaigns.
They launched the Tea Party with their funds.
The Koch Brothers
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year, according to Forbes Magazine. They own the second biggest
private company in the US and are among the largest tar sands
oil owners.
Koch tar sands acreage
"But that's not good enough for them, says Bernie Sanders
(I-VT), who would give Americans a real progressive choice if he
decides to run for President in 2016. "It doesn't appear that
they will be satisfied until they are able to control the entire
political process."
In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party's
vice-presidential candidate, giving us insight into what his
overall goals are.
He would repeal and abolish just about everything the
government does. Read this incredibly long list:
•Abolish federal campaign finance laws and the "despotic Federal
Election Commission;"
•Abolish Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, calling the
latter a "fraudulent and increasingly oppressive Social Security
system. After repeal, participation in Social Security should be
made voluntary;
•"We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to
provide health services, including those which finance abortion
services."
•Deregulate the medical insurance industry
•Abolish the US Postal Service and turn it over to the private
sector.
•"We oppose all personal and corporate income taxes, including
capital gains taxes, and support the eventual repeal of all
taxes." Until then, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax
evasion should be terminated immediately.
•Repeal minimum wage laws
•"We advocate the complete separation of education and State.
Public schools lead to the indoctrination of children and
interfere with individual free choice. Government ownership,
operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges
should be ended. We condemn compulsory education laws."
•Private schools should not be taxed on income or property.
•Abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of
Energy, Federal Aviation Administration, Food and Drug
Administration, Consumer Product Safety Commission and
Department of Transportation;
•"We demand the return of America's railroad system to private
ownership. We call for privatization of public roads and the
national highway system."
•"We specifically oppose laws that require people to buy or use
so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air
bags, or crash helmets."
•End all tax credits that have to with raising children, and all
welfare and tax-supported services for children.
•"We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to
the poor' programs. All these government programs are
privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The
proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts
of private groups and individuals."
•"We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of
the distribution system that brings water to industry,
agriculture and households."
•"We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health
Act."
•"We support the repeal of all state usury laws."
"These are the people who pull the strings for Republican Party
and because of the disastrous Citizens United and McCutcheon
Supreme Court decisions, they can now spend an unlimited amount
of money to buy the House of Representatives, the Senate, and
the next President of the United States," says Sanders.
They are also working on state and local levels, but that still
isn't enough - they are also influencing what's taught in our
schools, from grade school through college.
Luckily, they are getting old.
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
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GO's pals at HAHVAHD management are being challenged by
intelligent, principled students that don't have their heads up
their arse like GO and his greedball, materialistic, fossil fuel
loving PIG friends. >:(
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
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‘Dirty Duke’ TV Ad Exposes Largest Power Company in the U.S.
Brandon Baker | May 1, 2014 2:47 pm
It’s just 30 seconds, but it’s powerful.
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Presente.org and The Other 98% premiered an advertisement in the
Charlotte, NC and Orlando, FL markets May 1 highlighting Duke
Energy’s campaign to put a halt to solar energy, as well as the
damage done by the company’s coal ash spill in the Dan River in
February. It sarcastically mocks the company with an upbeat
narrator declaring that the company makes some of the “dirtiest
power.”
The advocacy groups chose to air the ad on the same day as
Duke’s annual shareholder meeting. ;D
Duke is the largest electric power holding company in the U.S.
That’s why Presente, The Other 98% and groups like the Sierra
Club, 350.0rg, Sachamama and the League of Conservation Voters
are encouraging people to sign a petition to tell the company to
end its dirty pollution. The groups charge that communities that
consists of minorities are the ones that bear the brunt of dirty
energy, though they would benefit most from the expansion of
renewable energy.
“Latino communities are sick of Duke Energy poisoning our
families and undermining our efforts to get clean energy,” said
Arturo Carmona, executive director of Presente.org.
“Times are changing, and Duke can no longer get away with
polluting our communities in secret. We demand Duke stop
destroying our climate, our health, and our neighborhoods.”
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
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Date: May 7, 2014, 10:14 pm
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Report[size=18pt] Rules Out Industry Myth That Coal Will
Alleviate Poverty in the Developing World[/size]
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Re: Fossil Fuel Propaganda Modus Operandi
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