Posted on 02/16/2007 9:16:23 AM PST by AnnaZ
Thu Feb 15, 2:19 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The first "terror-free" gas station was inaugurated this week in Omaha, Nebraska aiming to send a message to Middle Eastern oil producers thought to sponsor terrorism. The station in the central US state greets customers with large "terror-free" signs and the pumps proudly proclaim that the oil being drawn is "terror-free premium" or "terror-free super."
Messages plastered inside the station's convenience store drive home the message that it only sells oil from Canada and the United States and supports the war on terror.
"We know that when we go to the pumps we are sending our hard-earned dollars to a part of the world that wishes to destroy us," Joe Kaufman, who is behind the "Terror-Free Oil Initiative" (TFO) which runs the station, told AFP.
The TFO logo combines the twin towers of the New York City World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington, and designations for United Airlines flight 93 and three other aircraft which were hijacked and crashed into those buildings in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
"We created this initiative to make a statement to those gasoline companies that purchase their crude oil in the Middle East, that we as Americans are sick and tired of financing our own demise," Kaufman said.
He said his grass roots movement encourages stations that sign on to TFO to purchase their oil from Sinclair Oil Corporation, which generally only buys oil from the US and Canada.
Kaufman said he is well aware he is unlikely to make the major oil companies budge on imports from other producers, but is convinced that more gas stations throughout the country will join his movement in coming months.
"We're not under any illusion that we're going to make a dent in the oil market or in the oil or gasoline business, but we're just trying to make a statement," he said. "We believe in the war on terrorism and we're doing our small part as Americans to fight that war."
I get a huge kick of buying Sinclair gas just because of their dinosaur logo. It's kinda like the picture on a can of vegetables that shows you exactly what you're buying.
What a great idea !!!!
Me, too but I haven't seen a Sinclair station is ages.
This is good. We need more, More, MORE, M O R E!
Go Huskers!
LOL.
That is some good marketing. If they did the 'Mohamed with the bomb in his turban' as a logo also it would be better. :)
Just a note, the link is dead.
No jihadists were funded in the process of making this gasoline.
This is a feel good plan, but Sinclair Oil buys oil from the Global Petroleum Commodity market too. I support the idea but it doesn't work.
Justa ping
Good marketing, but lousy economics.
Petroleum is a rather fungible commodity. It is pretty much one market. What you do buy someone else won't. What you don't buy, someone else will. So the terrorists will get their money anyway.
This is also the reason why US "energy independence" is a silly idea.
"Belief is the enemy."
John Keel
It does make people think.
LOL.
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