Posts from — August 2009

The U.S. consumer buys a lot of oil from Nigeria. How much? Over 500,000 barrels per day. Nigeria is the 6th largest supplier of oil to the U.S.

When U.S. oil exploration companies found oil in Nigeria, in order to get the approval from the Nigerian government to drill, U.S. oil companies lied to the Nigerian government telling them that the money flowing into the country was going to be good for the Nigerian people.

This was an outright lie to the Nigerian people so that oil companies could profit. What most Americans are kept in the dark about is how their consumption of oil is killing the people of Nigeria.

The oil trade has been killing Nigerians for years now. In the meantime, the oil companies have no remorse, in fact, they are buying the votes in Congress to delay or slow solar power development and our independence from oil once and for all.

The video below shows how the oil trade has benefited oil companies and politicians in the U.S. and Nigeria while killing ordinary Nigerians.

Gangs have formed in a kind of mini-civil war for who should control the oil.

The Nigerian government is demolishing average Nigerian homes and churches to make room for luxury housing for rich oil executives and their American workers.

A pastor is powerless as his church is demolished because of the oil trade. He says, "The oil boom has become the oil doom."

A woman who has just had her home demolished, in the name of oil, clutches her young children and begs, "I need help. I need help."

The Rush Limbaugh Republicans who believe "all business is good, in fact it's downright heavenly" need to educate themselves on the oil trade.

How many people in Nigeria have been killed in the name of oil? This is what happens in a post Republican control era where 8 years of Republicanism and small government have led to a devaluing of human life. It is much like the debate in America on Health Care where Health Insurance companies have denied coverage and charged extortion like monopoly fees forcing some 50 million Americans to be without insurance. These bible thumping Republicans have lost their way. The bible says that money and the pursuit thereof is the root of ALL evil. Yet somehow, this part of the bible is ignored by these Republican zealots.

We now see what America has become after 8 years of Republican control in which business was allowed to reign free with little, if any, governmental oversight.

The U.S. consumer buys a lot of oil from Nigeria. How much? Over 500,000 barrels per day. Nigeria is the 6th largest supplier of oil to the U.S.

Oil companies in the U.S. promised that the flow of money into Nigeria was going to make life a lot better for the people.

U.S. oil companies could careless about the Nigerian people. They did not care about the welfare of the Nigerian people anymore than U.S. Insurance companies care about the welfare of their members. All that the U.S. oil companies wanted to do was to take the oil as quickly as possible. What most U.S. citizens do not know is that their consumption of oil and gas is killing the average Nigerian.

Worse, big oil executives have known what is happening to Nigeria because of the oil trade for years now, but still they continue to use their Washington lobbyists to delay solar power development.

In the video below, you will learn more about the Nigerian oil trade and its impact on average Nigerian people.

Nigerians are killing each other for who should have the right to sell oil to America.

American oil workers and oil executives are being favored over the people of Nigeria. The government is destroying Nigerian villages to make room for American housing.

A pastor who has had his church demolished in the name of the oil trade laments, "The oil boom has turned into the oil doom."

As the big oil companies demolish a woman's home, she clutches her children and cries, "I need help! Someone please help!"

The Rush Limbaugh Republicans who believe "all business is good, in fact it's downright heavenly" need to educate themselves on the oil trade.

The goal of business is to increase profits. If people need to lose their homes, then so be it. What is important is to increase profits. In some aspects, the big Health Insurance companies in the U.S. are a good lesson of what happens with the unchecked pursuit of profit. How many people in America, like people in Nigeria, have been killed in the pursuit of profit? How many Americans have died because their coverage was denied? How many people who work in fast food or the restaurant business work without health insurance of any kind? How many hard working adults who play by all the rules are doomed to poverty because they are being charged $800, even a $1,000 or more a month for health insurance for a relatively healthy family of three?

We now see what America has become after 8 years of Republican control in which business was allowed to reign free with little, if any, governmental oversight.