Fuels America Sends Snarky Valentine to Big Oil

Jim Lane, Biofuels Digest
February 14, 2013 | 8 Comments

"We love how oil companies want to keep us dependent on a dirty, climate warming, expensive fuel in short supply. Isn't that just great?"

So goes the new theme from Fuels America, who debuted their We Love Oil! campaign this afternoon. It’s all on (hilarious) video, well worth a share — starring snarky polar bears, oil-slicked birds admiring their sheen, dumbfounded Americans wondering how awesome a future of climate change, and more climate change could really be.

Perhaps our favorite:

“I love how you grown-ups are so oil crazy. You’re going to leave us with nothing but scary weather, no clean energy and no oil left. Good thinking! I love it!”

For the small, underfunded renewable fuels movement — it appears to be the first step in a campaign to go viral with their form of asymmetric warfare.

So it’s Big Oil billions and TV ads against the little guys and their guerilla tactics. Let’s see how that progresses.

Here’s a test — tweet these:

Don’t you just LOVE oil companies?? A video Valentine for our favorite fossil #fuel folks: http://youtu.be/yr7qalUUmsk

VIDEO: We <3 U Big Oil http://youtu.be/yr7qalUUmsk #sarcasticvalentines #renewable #oil #energy

“Oil companies – I love those guys!” said no polar bear ever http://youtu.be/yr7qalUUmsk #oil #renewable #energy

This article was originally published on Biofuels Digest and was republished with permission.

8 Comments

Paul Roden
March 15, 2013

In order to stop global warming, we need to have alternatives. I have started a petition on the White House "We, the people" Website asking the US Department of Energy to conduct a study on transitioning to renewable energy by 2030 without fossil fuel or nuclear power. If this petition gets 100,000 signatures by March 22, 2013, the White House will review it and respond! The link to the petition is:http://wh.gov/vmC3 Thanks, Paul Robert Roden

Chris DiGangi
February 19, 2013

LOVE IT !!!

terry hallinan
February 19, 2013

RoyWest,

"This delusional thinking that 7 billion people can continually take from the planet every single day and never give anything back is insane."

Each and everyone gives back every day but we choose not to use it.

Sewage can be disintegrated and sterilized and utilized far more efficiently and cleanly than the Chinese night soil. Some have at least looked at it if not implemented it on a large scale.

In Denmark a pig farm has even used the stench of pig farming (ammonia) to grow tomatoes.

http://agrotech.dk/en/projects/pig-city-zero-emission-and-odour-free-pig-production

The ammonia is trapped in air filters. Ammonia is both an excellent nitrogen fertilizer and a fuel.

Best, Terry

terry hallinan
February 19, 2013

Roy West
February 19, 2013

This delusional thinking that 7 billion people can continually take from the planet every single day and never give anything back is insane. You may hate me for saying it but I can assure you that you are going to hate life 1000 times more as more and more horrors are unleashed on us. We have only a small window of time left before it shuts forever and potentially leads to the end of humanity on planet earth. As God looks down from heaven with tears in his eyes, tell him that you could care less and the only thing that matters is you. Go on......Tell him......tell him that you have lied to yourself so often that you now have begun to believe the very lies you tell yourself every single day. How else could you possible sit by and watch the plunder and destruction of planet earth so calmly. How else could you not see the damage we are doing?

ANONYMOUS
February 19, 2013

The mid-west has been ravaged with exceptional drought conditions. Corn crops have collapsed and wholesale prices are headed to record highs. If the great Mississppi River were to drop another foot it would have shut down all traffic on the river. The great lakes are at their lowest level since the ice age. Moose hunting in Minisota has been suspended indefinitly as their population crashes......it goes on and on and on and yet you still cry me, me, me, me, me, me..... A Christian Nation.....How? Our church leaders stand mute. Not a word about how we are destroying God's greatest creation. Man according to scripture was to be a steward of the plants and animals not a destroyer. Church leaders are in a quandy as to why their flock is falling so rapidly? I think that they have become irrelevent. The simply echo what you would hear on the radio or tv. They do not represent truth and justice any longer. They too have accepted the me, me, me, me mantra. It is not my job to judge but my guess is that God will have a special place in hell for the likes of these luke warm Christians.

ANONYMOUS
February 19, 2013

For the love of God people, we have nearly distroyed planet earth. God has tears in his eyes looking down on the destruction to his greatest creation. My children have no future nor do yours. We have already crossed the tipping point. Our politicians are in lock step with the fossil industry. Until the nexus between governmnt and big oil is broke, nothing meaningful will change. These men have perverted our democracy. They have desecrated Gods greatest creation and you are naive enough to think they care. I frankly am sick of the lies and deception. When you children come to you with bloated stomachs and sores on their faces crying they are hungry remember you were warned.

V. Bruce Stenswick
February 14, 2013

The messages here show a bit of a misunderstanding of the problem. If there were no consequences of burning fossil fuels, it would be fine to burn them all up. We would figure out how to thrive without fossil fuels. 70 years ago in Belgium during WWII they ran buses on ammonia. The X15 rocket plane flew on ammonia. The message that has to come through is it does not matter how LITTLE fossil fuels cost, we cannot burn them. They have to be left in the ground and we figure out a different way to do things.

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