Dropping in to bash Big Oil

Did you hear the big news about how Charlie Bolden, NASA's chief administrator, tried to eliminate a program that would create cheap, clean energy?

What happened is NASA is working on a program to dump enormous bags of trash into the ocean, with trash eating algae which would create two byproducts: fresh water ... and lipids that when harvested would create a high energy biofuel.

The plan is to harvest the lipids which would enable them to create airplane fuel.

Enough to serve the entire planet's fleet of airplanes!

So why would Charlie Bolden want to trash the program?

Good question.

But here are a few clues:

1) He is a former board member of Marathon Oil
2) He has a million bucks of Marathon stock
3) Marathon asked him to kill the project.

If you've read any of my books, you know that my characters take on Big Oil and they have theorized that Big Oil quashes any new innovations that would reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

This is the tip of the iceberg. Proof that Big Oil will do whatever they can to keep the reins of our national economy.

How about more proof? What construction projects are predominantly 'growing' our economy?

Road work, right?

How well do new roads grow our economy? Who benefits?

How about Big Oil?

Huh, you ask.

Yep, Big Oil. One of the primary ingredients of asphalt is oil.

Big Oil ... scourge of Earth.

You can read one of my short stories where the bad guy is Big Oil on my website. The story, which appeared in the anthology Missing, is available for free! Just go to www.normcowie.com and scroll to the bottom of the first page.

Norm

www.normcowie.com

Pissing me off

First, what the heck does 'pissing me off' mean? Does that mean whizzing on yourself while turning off a light switch? Not recommended, since water is a conduit and you know, you don't want to get zapped.

Anyway, I'm just popping in here to pop off about a few things. A rant blog, if you will.

First of all... it was great to hear that 40% of bottled water is TAP water! Can you say, 'duh'? Not only that, but the plastic bottle that it comes in is made with byproducts of oil!

Did you hear me? Er, read me?

Oil!

So every time you're drinking a Coca Cola's Dasani or Pepsi's Aquafina, you're drinking something that came out of a regular faucet.

Or as they say, PWS .. which means, "Public Water Source."

In other words, tap water!

And you're paying up the nose for it. You, not me. You see, I've been boycotting bottled water for a long time because plastic bottles are manufactured from oil, thus benefiting our middle eastern friends from the, um, Middle East.

And sorry, but I do enough of that when I fill up my tank.

And that pisses me off, too. Especially if I've had too much bottled water ... which I won't ... since I'm boycotting it. Anyway, if you've read my Adventures of Guy books, you know I harbor a grudge against Big Oil, and am a conspiracy theorist who wholeheartedly believes Big Oil buys up any patent that might actually endanger their monopoly on our wallets.

I mean, I joke about it, and it's fun in my books, but I really do believe there's some merit to it, and our own government won't do squat about it, because they've been bought and sold by Big Oil, too.

Read my short story in "Missing" if you want to indulge in my conspiracy theory.

So I'm pissed at the bottled water manufacturers, the bottle manufacturers and Big Oil.


How about you? Who are you pissed at?

Norm

http://www.normcowie.com

coming really, really soon, Fang Face (also available on ebook)