A bit of grimly funny guerilla theater...
Via Daily Kos:
Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC)
representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen
at GO-EXPO, Canada's largest oil conference, held at Stampede Park in
Calgary, Alberta, today...
We need something like whales, but infinitely more abundant," said
"NPC rep" "Shepard Wolff" (actually Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men),
before describing the technology used to render human flesh into a
new Exxon oil product called Vivoleum. 3-D animations of the process
brought it to life.
(Apparently, efforts to get the Yes Men arrested failed, as it isn't illegal to impersonate oil company employees. Or at least it isn't in Canada.)
Sounds a bit like Soylent Green meeting The Matrix. The bit about whales is brilliant; it could be a reference not only to the possibility of whale extinction, but also a put-down of a silly but popular meme I've seen lately: "Well, we discovered that petroleum could replace whale oil, so when the petroleum's running out something else will come along." Uh... no, it doesn't work like that.
(I noticed that gasoline prices in Chicago seemed to have ticked down a few cents. Perhaps refiners have managed to catch up to demand, at least to some extent? I don't have time to research that, though.)
Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC)
representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen
at GO-EXPO, Canada's largest oil conference, held at Stampede Park in
Calgary, Alberta, today...
We need something like whales, but infinitely more abundant," said
"NPC rep" "Shepard Wolff" (actually Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men),
before describing the technology used to render human flesh into a
new Exxon oil product called Vivoleum. 3-D animations of the process
brought it to life.
(Apparently, efforts to get the Yes Men arrested failed, as it isn't illegal to impersonate oil company employees. Or at least it isn't in Canada.)
Sounds a bit like Soylent Green meeting The Matrix. The bit about whales is brilliant; it could be a reference not only to the possibility of whale extinction, but also a put-down of a silly but popular meme I've seen lately: "Well, we discovered that petroleum could replace whale oil, so when the petroleum's running out something else will come along." Uh... no, it doesn't work like that.
(I noticed that gasoline prices in Chicago seemed to have ticked down a few cents. Perhaps refiners have managed to catch up to demand, at least to some extent? I don't have time to research that, though.)