When Treehugger pointed us to this, we hoped to hell it was some crazy-viral-thing made by some oh-so-zany-ad-agency to promote soup or something. But no, the more we looked into it, the more it looked like it was for real. Three gas-chains in the US are planning to market their oil as terror-free. Terror-Free, Sinclair Oil and Flying J gas companies have teamed together to promote their gasoline as fuel that doesn’t sponsor terrorism (i.e. come from the Persian Gulf).
According to their site, only two other companies outside the group are worth buying from (Hess & Yukos) and that 43 other companies (including Shell, Esso and BP) “finance terrorism by importing oil from the Middle East” (we assume this coalition has a better legal team than the others put together).
In a poll on their site 70% of respondents (over 4,500 people) voted that they’d definitely use such a gas station if it was in their ‘hood.
The first gas station will be in Nebraska. Fox kindly reports the news for us:
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Obviously, someone will blow these up – just for the sake of irony if anything…
Now pass the Freedom Fries
January 25th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
This is very interesting. The next logical step is to charge more for Terror free oil. Smart move.
January 29th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Terror-Free Oil Refuses Financial Offer from Corporation Connected to Radical Saudi Financier
http://www.TerrorFreeOil.org – MSNBC Video
February 4th, 2007 at 3:27 pm