Terror Free Oil

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:

Terror Free Oil