I just got a new and exciting e-mail from Oil Change... This peak-oil organization that thinks we should "mobilize" and "strive to separate oil and state." What loonies.
Luke and I went to a peak oil convention around this time a year ago and now we get these ridiculous e-mails from these people. We were really disappointed with the people there. Not only are they ineffective at their cause, their whole medium is speculation and "mobilizing" is only something that's said, not something that's done. Just because you have a convention and talk about it, or you have a rally and shout about it, or you write "mean" articles about the president, you're still a stupid moron who's just taking up space. When you start burning down Exxons and putting explosives in the White House, we'll talk.
Also, they keep talking about Nigeria like it's actually an issue amidst Iraq and Iran. Here's a quote from the e-mail:
"In August, we were hearing that BP’s negligence, corroded pipes, and shut-down at Prudhoe Bay would push the price of a barrel of oil past $80, and the price of a gallon of gas past $4. Now here we are, one month later, and the price of oil has declined to roughly $63/barrel, while gas is down to a national average of $2.67.
So what happened?
If you listen to the experts, traders have miraculously calmed down over the prospects of violence in the Middle East, conflict with Iran, and violence in Nigeria and Iraq. Its a little unclear why these prospects look substantively better all of a sudden. Iran casually blew through a UN-set August 31st deadline to stop nuclear work, Iraq continues to be a bloodbath, and there are ongoing worker strikes and community unrest in Nigeria."
What?! Unrest in where?! Iran, Iraq, and.... Trinidad and Tobago? Burma? Idaho? I'll have you know that OilChange's sponsor, among others, is Ken Saro-Wiwa, son of Ken Wiwa who was killed in jail in Nigeria for some reason or other. So because they have to plug "community unrest" in Nigeria for this Wiwa guy, they're going to put it on the same level as Iraq and Iran? I just think it's ludicrous. Just make a little section of every e-mail that's called "Our Obligatory Nigeria plug: Nigeria is unrestful! You got that, Wiwa? Here's your plug!" Don't mislead people into thinking Nigeria is not like almost every country in the world in that they have worker strikes and community unrest. That's happening in New Jersey, too.
I guess it's their prerogative. I'm just tired of them telling me to "continue working towards the goal of separating oil and state." What exactly am I supposed to be "doing?" Writing to my congressman? Please. We're not doing anything, ever. The actual thing they should be saying is "we're going to have to continue doing something (doesn't matter what) that takes a long time, because otherwise we're going to lose our activist jobs."
Also, if you're going to write e-mails stemming from a large organization, use apostrophes in words that are required to have them.
Luke and I went to a peak oil convention around this time a year ago and now we get these ridiculous e-mails from these people. We were really disappointed with the people there. Not only are they ineffective at their cause, their whole medium is speculation and "mobilizing" is only something that's said, not something that's done. Just because you have a convention and talk about it, or you have a rally and shout about it, or you write "mean" articles about the president, you're still a stupid moron who's just taking up space. When you start burning down Exxons and putting explosives in the White House, we'll talk.
Also, they keep talking about Nigeria like it's actually an issue amidst Iraq and Iran. Here's a quote from the e-mail:
"In August, we were hearing that BP’s negligence, corroded pipes, and shut-down at Prudhoe Bay would push the price of a barrel of oil past $80, and the price of a gallon of gas past $4. Now here we are, one month later, and the price of oil has declined to roughly $63/barrel, while gas is down to a national average of $2.67.
So what happened?
If you listen to the experts, traders have miraculously calmed down over the prospects of violence in the Middle East, conflict with Iran, and violence in Nigeria and Iraq. Its a little unclear why these prospects look substantively better all of a sudden. Iran casually blew through a UN-set August 31st deadline to stop nuclear work, Iraq continues to be a bloodbath, and there are ongoing worker strikes and community unrest in Nigeria."
What?! Unrest in where?! Iran, Iraq, and.... Trinidad and Tobago? Burma? Idaho? I'll have you know that OilChange's sponsor, among others, is Ken Saro-Wiwa, son of Ken Wiwa who was killed in jail in Nigeria for some reason or other. So because they have to plug "community unrest" in Nigeria for this Wiwa guy, they're going to put it on the same level as Iraq and Iran? I just think it's ludicrous. Just make a little section of every e-mail that's called "Our Obligatory Nigeria plug: Nigeria is unrestful! You got that, Wiwa? Here's your plug!" Don't mislead people into thinking Nigeria is not like almost every country in the world in that they have worker strikes and community unrest. That's happening in New Jersey, too.
I guess it's their prerogative. I'm just tired of them telling me to "continue working towards the goal of separating oil and state." What exactly am I supposed to be "doing?" Writing to my congressman? Please. We're not doing anything, ever. The actual thing they should be saying is "we're going to have to continue doing something (doesn't matter what) that takes a long time, because otherwise we're going to lose our activist jobs."
Also, if you're going to write e-mails stemming from a large organization, use apostrophes in words that are required to have them.
posted by Julie at 18:18
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