Terror Free Gasoline: Hit the Terrorists Where it Counts - in Their Sponsor's Wallets!

I read an article about a new gas station chain that had opened up called Terror-Free Oil.

Unfortunately, I cannot buy gas in Nebraska, living in Florida, so I thought that hope was gone. I would certainly like to have a choice of buying gas from a non-terrorist support country. I went to their web site and found a list of the oil companies that are buying from these terror states and found that there are two that are supposedly 'terror free' that I could choose from!

Then I read the fine print, argh, which apparently states that some of the oil might be coming from Algeria whose governement is radical and has ties to a splinter group of al Qaeda!

So I looked at all the other listed oil companies and their locations and none of them are in Florida. I guess I should apologize to those in areas of the USA that can not buy gas from the listed gas stations for bringing this Terror-Free Oil company to your web browsing visit. However, if there is even a chance that I can buy gas from a gas station that is not supporting terrorists than I think I will. Sunoco and Hess are on my way so I'm going to try hard to fill up only with these two, and besides Hess has free air in my area.

President Bush is talking about alternatives that can make the USA less dependent on foreign oil, albeit still at the sacrifice of injury to the environment. Producing ethanol itself produces pollution as a byproduct as it uses coal in refinement. Also, the amount of land needed, energy to produce and manpower to grow the corn is seen as a limit to this idea. Even the estimate of the net displacement of 15% seems low. By 2017 the goal of 35 billion gallons a year production will "displace about 15 percent of U.S. gasoline demand."

Then what is the solution to getting me to work and back without funding the terrorists myself? It's not going to be Ethanol completely but some form of wind powered electrical plant feeding my home power that ultimately feeds my electric car I hope.

The new movie, "Who Killed the Electric Car", has an interview with, S. David Freeman, former head of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. His comment, in the interview, concerning today's hybrid vehicles lends evidence to my predictions of electric cars.

He states that, "You have to realize that under the hood of a hybrid car is a part-electric vehicle and part parallel internal combustion engine ... so that the electric parts run until the juice runs down in the battery; then the gas engine kicks in. That kind of car which they know how to make with the plug-in feature, with just a few more batteries in it, can run at least 60 miles all electric. If you can run 60 miles on electricity in a plug-in hybrid and it's entirely feasible then for most of the people, most of your daily driving is all electric. And most of the cities are no more than 60 miles between stops. And at the stops you charge."

Sounds reasonable to me, however, what about the electrical plant, feeding my car, does it get it's power by burning 'terrorist' oil? Florida Power and Light uses a mix of 43%gas, 19%nuclear, 18%coal, 17%oil, and 3% other.

I would have to assume that they are getting their 43% of gas from the 'terrorist' oil countries, hopefully not, so that would mean that I have reduced my consumption of 'terrorist' oil by over half, that is if I buy a hybrid with a plug to plug it in. Now if the car companies would build this car, with the plug, I could buy one. Mr. Freeman adds that if a million of us demanded that we would not buy our next car until they offer us one with electric connections that might help, call me I'll do it! :-)

Florida Fred