Big Oil Wants Back in the Saddle

[McCamy Taylor]

So, the American Petroleum Institute is behind the Conservative Political Action Conference.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/19/cpac-oil-sponsor/

No surprises there. As I wrote yesterday, there is a war being waged between Big Oil and Just About Everyone Else. Our elections are the battleground on which the fossil fuel industry fights for its (God Given) right to obscene profits.

I. There Will Be Blood (and Oil)

What is it about oil men and the oil industry? Maybe they still believe in the old dream. embodied in the 1960s television show The Beverly Hillbillies that any hard working (white) man could drill a well---and become a millionaire overnight. J.D. Rockefeller, 19th century founder of Standard Oil was the standard bearer of that dream. David Rockefeller is the current scion who keeps that dream alive. And the Bush Family, which also has its hands in oil, has been his political champion in the arena for several decades. Rockefeller helped facilitate the Oil for Hostages deal that swept Reagan-Bush into power. John Hinckley Jr. who tried to assassinate Reagan, was the son of an oil man, owner of Vanderbilt Oil.

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~wbova/fn/history/bush.htm

But Big Oil is bigger---and older---than the Bush Clan.

The whole 20 year Viet Nam “war” from 1955 to 1975 was an oil scam.

http://www.brojon.org/frontpage/bj050701-3.html

You like scary stories? Then read this one, about how Laurence Rockefeller, aid to Gen. McArthur, sold weapons to Ho Chi Minh in order to help drive the French out of Southeast Asia, so that Standard Oil could get the rights to all that South China Sea oil.
That’s right. The war that killed tens of thousands of our young man---and millions of Vietnamese---was fought over some oil that already rich Americans wanted so that they could get even richer---

You know, the recent film There Will Be Blood with Daniel Day Lewis, may have been onto something. Maybe oil men really are rat bastards.

If Big Oil was just about who will profit from the earth’s need for energy, it would be bad enough. But the entire fossil fuel industry has two other strikes against it. First, their products are slowly destroying the earth. Everyone acknowledges this now---except for a handful of oil industry lackeys. The 2000 election results were predetermined the moment the Democrats nominated Al “Global Warming” Gore. There was no way that Big Oil would allow a conservationist into the White House. All the election fraud that went down in Florida and then later at the Supreme Court had just one purpose---to give Exxon and the others eight more years to squirrel away the cash.

Which brings me to the other problem with fossil fuels. Oil will run out pretty soon. And as the wells dry up, so will the source of all that blood stained money that has been used to buy presidents, fund wars and in general turn a handful of men around the world into demi-gods.

Lest you think that oil only entered politics after WWII, here is a document from 1922 about the Oil Wars that followed the Great War, written by Sylvia Pankhurst.

The great Capitalists and Generals understand this: the world contest presents itself clearly to their minds. They prepare systematically and without compunction for the strife, arranging the wars in which the lives of millions will be sacrificed with the same coolness as Cabinet Ministers manipulate a general election or their wives organise bazaars. They believe the strife inevitable, and by this fatalism, divesting themselves of all sense of responsibility, they merely take what care they can to be on the winning side.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/pankhurst-sylvia/1922/oil-war.htm

There will be blood, indeed.

I am not about to list all the atrocities that the U.S. has perpetrated against other countries in the name of oil profits for people who already had more oil than they would ever spend. If I were a more religious person, I would speculate that the devil put oil underground in order to tempt men to sin and to accelerate the coming of the End of Days.

II. Big Oil, Enemy of Democracy

If you read my journals, you know that back in July, 2009 I wrote about how Kochs Industries, the largest privately owned company in the United States, has links to both the so called Brooks Brothers Riot in Florida, 2000 (when a bunch of Republican political operatives violated federal law and crossed state lines in order to stop the lawful counting of votes) and to the Tea Parties.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/421

Big Oil wants the public to think that these anti-democratic protests are spontaneous, the very essence of the democratic process. However, they are more akin to the fascist rallies held in Germany before WWII. Speaking of fascists----

The Standard Oil group of companies, in which the Rockefeller family owned a one-quarter (and controlling) interest,1 was of critical assistance in helping Nazi Germany prepare for World War II. This assistance in military preparation came about because Germany's relatively insignificant supplies of crude petroleum were quite insufficient for modern mechanized warfare; in 1934 for instance about 85 percent of German finished petroleum products were imported. The solution adopted by Nazi Germany was to manufacture synthetic gasoline from its plentiful domestic coal supplies. It was the hydrogenation process of producing synthetic gasoline and iso-octane properties in gasoline that enabled Germany to go to war in 1940 — and this hydrogenation process was developed and financed by the Standard Oil laboratories in the United States in partnership with I.G. Farben.

http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_04.htm

Yep, yep. The biggest, nastiest war the world was ever seen was brought to you by the good folks at Standard Oil. But wait! There is more.

Remember the plot to oust FDR from office and replace him with our very own version of Il Duce ? If you do, congratulations! They did not teach you about it at school. You must have read it on your own. America would be a better place if more people read about its history.

Anyway, guess which company was part of the American Liberty League, that engineered the failed coup? You guessed it. Standard Oil.

http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/all-both.html

Is there nothing these guys will not do in their mad frenzy to acquire more money? Apparently not. That is why I warned, yesterday, that election 2012 will be a proxy war, between the Oil Industry’s handpicked candidate and President Obama. And given the way that Big Oil has behaved during previous elections, we should not expect them to play fair. They had a taste of what it was like to wield absolute power under the two oil industry Texans (Bush and Cheney) for eight years. Iraq was invaded, so that the progeny of Standard Oil could feed off someone else’s oil. Oil price gouging was not just tolerated by the Bush administration, it was facilitated—even if it meant profit losses for the manufacturing sector, travel, the retail industry. BTW, back in early 2001 I predicted that Bush’s selection would end up pitting Big Oil against Just About Everyone Else. And last year, we saw what happens when Just About Everyone Else gets pissed off at Big Oil. The nation’s many other industries did something very unusual. They united behind a Democratic candidate.

However, Big Oil has learned its lesson, and it is forming strategic alliances. It now has the health insurance industry in its pocket. It is wooing the Banksters. Everyone who wants Obama to start throwing bank executives in jail needs to remember that Bush Jr. arranged to give the industry a $700 billion slush fund and Bush’s Supreme Court has made it easier for the Banksters to use that slush fund in the next election. So, you could say that it isn’t that Obama does not want to reform the banking industry. He just dare not reform it, in the same way that a man can not point a loaded gun at his own head and pull the trigger. Them are the facts of life in Corporate Fascist America---and you do not like it, then start doing something to reform our elections process, don’t heap all the blame a few of the politicians that our system of democracy (ha!) has helped elect.

If the oil industry can line up enough other industries---and especially if they can snag the all important Corporate Media with promises of regulation roll backs the way that Rove did in 2000---they will become a force to be reckoned with. Actually, they already are a force to be reckoned with. They just don’t have a viable candidate. Ms. Oil Industry Gets What Oil Industry Wants Palin can not win. America still thinks that women in power are 1) incompetent, 2) unnatural and 3) bitches---as they showed in the 2008 primaries. They would run Gov. Rick Perry of Texas if they thought they could get away with it—but he is so closely tied to the Bush Family his name might as well be “Jeb”.

Though I do not know who the Republicans will field in 2012, I can tell you one thing with 100% confidence. Big Oil will choose the candidate and he/she will be ready, on day one, to 1) roll back measures the Obama administration has taken to prevent oil price gouging 2) to sign away all the nation’s beaches to oil companies 3) to cut funding for alternative energy programs 4) to hire a bunch of governments scientists to declare that Global Warming is bunk 5) to give Israel the green light to attack Iran, so that some more foreign oil can be “liberated” and last but most important 6) to worsen the Depression which Bush Jr. started. For, as a man who might as well have been an Oil Man (if he had not decided to follow in the path of the Rothschild Family and become a bankster and war profiteer and a creator of mega companies like GE) said

Capital must protect itself in every way...Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.
-J.P. Morgan

Divide and conquer the working class. Take away their homes (something JP Morgan knows all about). Drive them into poverty. Distract them with political theater. That is the formula of the modern corporate fascist in America. We are going to see a whole lot more of it in the months to come. And no one does it better than Big Oil.

Hmm. One phrase in that quote just caught my eye. Imperialism of capitalism. He did not mince words did he? The next time someone tells you that we are at war in Oceana in order to liberate its citizens, snap back “But J.P. Morgan said it was part of an effort by ‘the imperialism of capitalism to govern the world.’”

Oh, the horror.

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[Mari333]

2. KNR and that is what is running BOTH the goddamned occupations (wars)

in Iraq and Afghanistan.

and every person murdered , civilians or troops, is offered as cannon fodder for Big Oil corporations.

oh, how I wish the dems had their shit together.

[Raster]

3. K&R!

[CHelms]

4. Imagine my surprise...

So Big Oil is backing the Republicans and now they're creating some unholy alliance with the insurance racket and the banking racket. I suppose it's the natural outcome of the recent Supreme Court decision that allows them to use unlimited funds to bankroll candidates who will bleed America white in order for their beloved top 5% to get even richer. By 2012, I fear that no power on earth will be able to even oppose this juggernaut, much less stop it. These corporations soon will completely own the government from top to bottom. They will control every major elected office, and by extension, the legislative branch. Congress will soon be made up of people who will behave like Andy Kaufman's old Tony Clifton character.

[Demeter]

5. Obama Has Acted to Stop Price Gouging in Oil? Do Tell!

Obama has done nothing. After all, he is still alive as are his family.

[DemoTex]

8. I just gassed up at Costco ($2.36/gal) .. everyone was all smiles.

Big Oil raped us during Bu$h/Cheney, then pulled the price down to a still-obscene level to mark time until they can throw another election their way. Meanwhile, the peeps are so glad to be paying only $2.36/gal, that they will totally forget who dicked them for eight years.

Demeter is correct: Obama has done nothing. They aren't afraid of him. Why should they be? The oilmen have their Supreme Court and Congress (100% of the Repubs, and most of the Democrats). The current oil price is just PR on the part of Big Oil.

[Overseas]

6. K&R. Understanding the role of big oil has been a painful awakening.

I still want to pretend that it isn't so.

[bridgit]

7. Oh yes, and The John Birch Society too. But that has to be one of the most embarrassing...

"I wannabe a cowboy" pics of all time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s05jcrJw0as&feature=related

[Initech]

9. One nation under oil.