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  1. So we need to talk about the #Petroleum #Dollar. We've discovered that not only is oil and the petroleum bad for the #environment, but it's underpinning of #US #imperialism - and now also US #fascism.

    The fact that the #PetroleumIndustry has been doing #PsyOps and privatized #propaganda since the 70s should be apparent.

    But now the new new talking point is that being against #renewables is basically wanting to remain a #VassalState under the US.

    The #USD is a chain that binds #Europe.

  2. «Trump in April asked an assemblage of oil and gas company CEOs at Mar-a-Lago to raise $1 billion for his campaign, and promised them that he would reverse some of President Biden’s environmental regulations if he is elected. Several of the large donors during the first quarter whose donations were disclosed in the filing come from the oil and gas industry.»
    #QuidProQuo #TrumpLegalBills #billionaires #PetroleumIndustry #OilAndGas
    readsludge.com/2024/07/16/trum

  3. The CPC, completely predictably, are stoking hatred of their opponents with flat-out lies, flagrant bullshit, and inflammatory language. There is zero truth in this CPC petition. Don't be taken in like the Alberta NDP leadership contenders have been.

    nationalobserver.com/2024/03/0
    #cdnpoli #abpoli #PetroleumIndustry #Advertising #TruthInAdvertising #Lies #Bullshit #CPC

  4. “‘In 2023, we returned more cash to shareholders and produced more oil and natural gas than any year in the company's history,’ Chevron chief executive Mike Wirth boasted.”
    ……
    “Global Witness strategy lead Alice Harrison said…‘They're now choosing to reward their shareholders instead of investing in clean energy in a brazen wealth transfer from energy consumers to Big Oil shareholders.’”
    #PetroleumIndustry #ClimateCrisis #Profits

    commondreams.org/news/exxon-ch

  5. “‘COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure,’ former U.S. Vice President Al Gore tweeted in response to the release. ‘The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared. It is “Of the Petrostates, by the Petrostates, and for the Petrostates.”’”
    #COP28 #PetroleumIndustry
    commondreams.org/news/cop28-dr

  6. Grist: "The Hidden Cost of Gasoline." The signature sweet smell of gasoline is benzene, an infamous carcinogen, strongly linked to acute myeloid leukemia [AML]. Leaks from underground tanks + piping contain lead, benzene, and the suspected carcinogen methyl tertiary-butyl ether. 'Ten gallons of gasoline can contaminate 12 million gallons of groundwater — a significant risk, given that groundwater is the source of drinking water for nearly half of all Americans.' Some 60,000 contaminated sites under gas stations await cleanup, according to the EPA. "One of the largest spills was in Brooklyn, where a 17 million-gallon pool of oil gradually collected beneath a Mobil gas station — a larger spill than the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989." The actual number of gas stations has been in decine for decades, dut to mediocre profits, rising land values + more fuel-efficient cars. "A 2019 analysis from Boston Consulting Group found that between 25 and 80 percent of gas stations nationwide could be unprofitable in 12 years — and that analysis was conducted before a slate of new policies, including federal tax credits, were passed to promote electric vehicles." The menace of leaking gas stations went public in 1983, 'when a 60 Minutes segment warned Americans that underground storage tanks were a “time bomb” in their neighborhoods.' Unsurprisingly, the petroleum industry has known about this since at least the 1960s. 'In 1961, advertisements in the trade magazine National Petroleum News acknowledged that “rusty, leaky storage tanks” were a problem.' The big oil majors have been proactive, essentially pushing almost all of this liability on individual station owners. And, often ultimately on to all of us as taxpapers. Hence the watchword: Big Oil Knew.   #petroleumindustry  #gasoline  #contamination

  7. Therapists see surge in eco-anxiety as smoke fills skies.
    "The climate crisis is a main talking point in the weekly therapy sessions. The more people experience the crisis first-hand, the more they realize they need to have support to talk about it...The fires have triggered a sense of fear, rage and despair, which is a completely healthy response to what we’re witnessing on Earth.”
    theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j

    Never Forget: They Knew
    "As fossil fuel executives join the rest of us currently choking on the ash of old growth forests being consumed in the apocalyptic conflagrations directly linked to their actions, we must never forget: THEY KNEW."
    dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/8/
    #OneHealth #FossilFuels #PetroleumIndustry #Fires #Bushfires #Smoke #Pollution #Forests #Biodiversity #EcoAnxiety #ClimateCrisis