Oh yes, the trucks and railroads are also out of here. You'll eat local all right. For as long as it lasts.
[HT: Little Miss Godzilla]
Posted by Vanderleun at July 22, 2010 6:48 PM
A World withou Tea.
Posted by: Jewel at July 22, 2010 8:01 PMRubbish. Fuel for use in internal combustion engines can be manufactured from coal and other organic feedstocks. The Germans did it in WWII and the South Africans during Apartheid. the US has pretty near an infinite supply of coal.
Posted by: Fat Man at July 22, 2010 8:56 PMThat advert makes a point I'm sure it doesn't mean to make, and makes it very well indeed; we have much better things to do with petroleum than burning it.
Posted by: Fletcher Christian at July 23, 2010 12:17 AMCouple of odd comments. The point of the commercial was no more than to undemonize oil. Especially, by association, the stuff that is burned. It was well done.
It is perhaps ironic that Occidental was the company of a red-diaper baby, Armand Hammer.
Posted by: james wilson at July 23, 2010 7:39 AMNot just that. Armand Hammer was a Soviet agent. I thought everybody knew.
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