California farmers are desperate for water. Every year, Chevron sells back billions of gallons of recycled oil extraction wastewater to them. This water contains acetone, oil and methylene chloride, a known carcinogen, in nearly four times the amount found in a contaminated Arkansas River after the 2013 ExxonMobil tar sands pipeline failure.
Our farmers assume the water is passing health standards, but the government authorities and local water boards charged with overseeing this practice are relying on decades-old monitoring, which does not test for carcinogens or the chemicals used in modern-day oil production. (CourageCampaign.org)
Big oil companies like Chevron, Shell, BP and the Koch Bothers, etc., are aware of their environmental destruction, their disgusting pollution and their “en masse” spreading of cancer-causing agents worldwide.
Their outrageous activities are premeditated, encouraged and applauded by our political representatives, even though oil company activities are antisocial and designed to get more profit and political power for those companies, irrespective of the harm they cause to the environment and the public health and welfare.
Big oil companies want to expand their activities for their increased profit and political power. They want the freedom to exploit, pollute and kill the delicate balance of the natural environment, without anyone interfering with their activities or reminding them they are actually contributing to the death of millions of innocent people. Big oil wants more for itself at anyone’s expense; and on its orders, the Republican Congress will attempt to close the Environmental Protection Agency.
Big oil company CEOs and shareholders know their company activities are inhuman, predatory and antisocial yet they continue to spread misery, insidious suffering and death to all Earth’s peoples. The tens of thousands of well-drilling activities on land and sea have polluted our oceans and ripped apart our climate. Oil company political power has bound us to them, killed our human rights and tortured millions with the poisonous effluent they create.
Members of the public accept themselves as powerless victims of the oil companies. They live in denial and the hope that some miracle will save them and their children from the oil company pollution of their water, air and food. They hope the government will save them or that oil companies will do “the right thing” but big oil continues to expand.
Big oil knowingly, willingly and happily destroys the health and well-being of all its human victims and the planet, for its own huge profit, its overwhelming political power and its sadistic enjoyment of its own huge profit. Therefore, consider this.
Big oil companies act like psychopaths and create the same results as the killer psychopath Dennis Rader, aka BTK, but their crimes are bigger, much bigger.
Dennis Rader is the American serial killer who called himself BTK, meaning “bind, torture, kill,” illustrate his preferred method of murder. Like all psychopaths, Rader thought he was entitled to practice whatever obscene activities he wanted on his victims; terrifying them to satisfy his murderous urges to bind, torture and kill. He had a charming public persona; he was always ready to help people and, like many serial killers, he was very personable, charitable and known for his good works. He was a Cub Scout leader and was elected to be president of his local Lutheran Church Council.
In discussing Dennis Rader’s “bind, torture, kill” serial killer activities, we are also compelled to compare the murderous killing activity carried out on a much larger scale by Chevron, Shell, BP and the Koch Brothers, etc.
Big oil companies are psychopaths. They bind us with their laws, which they write. They torture us (destroying our health, economics and environment) while their pollution kills the planet. Oil company psychopaths don’t want to be exposed as serial killers; they thrive on deceit and lies, spending billions to convince us they are “just like us,” reasonable, caring, loving human beings. When all is said and done, they too “bind, torture and kill.” Like all psychopaths, big oil’s motives are hidden behind a mask of friendly human warmth just like Ted Bundy, Ariel Castro, Jeffrey Dahmer and BTK.
Appealing to big oil companies to cut production and pollution has no effect. Warnings from scientists and environmental experts have no effect. The corporate media keeps us uninformed. Politicians don’t listen to their constituents, drowning out their true feelings, burying them with their morals. They deceive themselves, ignoring the catastrophic price we all pay for companies drilling for more oil. Legislation against big-oil pollution is shelved because every politician is on big oil’s BTK payroll.
It’s all very nice to have a “civilized conversation” with big oil in our attempts to get it to stop its murderous BTK activities, but remember, like BTK, it doesn’t care about you at all. Convict it in the court of public opinion. At every public relations opportunity, let’s attach the brand name “Bind, Torture, Kill” to all big oil companies; think of them as serial killers. “Chevron, Shell, BP and Koch, Bind, Torture and Kill.”
Listen to your heart; big oil is destroying your air, food and water.