Stock Market Tip: Sell Chevron, Exxon, Shell and BP - I switched my investments to Carrier, Amana, Trane Etc... As Global Temperatures Rise, People Want Air Conditioners...

They Intentionally Raised the Price of Gasoline in order to Help Republicans Win the 2022 Election... "See? The Democrats Can't Govern! Look at these Gas Prices! Elect Republicans That will Cut Taxes for the Super Rich! That'll Make America Great!" 

and The People of the USA are NOT Fooled and Are Angry! SELL Fossil Fuel Stock! Those Guys are EVIL! Obviously ExxonValdez, BP, Shell and Chevron are Destroying The Planet... 

We Must Evolve from Energy Hunter-Gatherers to Become Energy Farmers. - Quote from SchatzLab at Humboldt State University - Arcata, California 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/we-must-evolve-from-energy-hunter.html

Oil companies rake in huge profits amid consumer squeeze... https://thehill.com/policy/3709759-oil-companies-rake-in-huge-profits-amid-consumer-squeeze/

List of American Oil Companies: 

https://bizfluent.com/list-6132944-list-american-oil-companies.html

and on a Different Subject:

I am the High Tech Hero! I fixed a Ding Dong Emergency Bell for another Resident... Whenever She wants the Care Giver to go help her she pushes a button and a box in the Kitchen goes Ding Dong... Until it Just Failed... For No Reason... So.... The Equipment has NO Name on it... just the words "Made in China" - So I took a photo of the box, did a Google Search By Image, found a similar picture that lead me to an owners manual... Read the Instructions and figured out How to Reset the Machine... Simply push and hold the "Sound Selector" button for Five Seconds...

So... If You are in a Similar Situation... Remember that You Can Take a Photo and Do a Image Search by Photo... Excellent!

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"As the highs and lows disappear...

we sometimes feel a sadness and depression, a sense of having lost the richness of the romance of life. Indeed, an awakened being is not romantic, for nothing is special anymore. Every moment is all of it. No romance. Just the coming and the going. Coming and going.

The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity.

So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours."

~ Ram Dass

Going Down the Road Feeling Bad 

Javascript Drawing by gvan42

the Grateful Dead play free concert on a flatbed truck, Haight Street Fair, San Francisco 1968  photo by Jim Marshall

2001 Space Odyssey Movie Poster.

Filming the Ending of 2001 A Space Odyssey

GREENWASHING - Examples of Corporations Publishing Advertisements That Make Them Look Like They are Doing Ecological Work while they are Actually Destroying The Environment.

Many TV Advertisements SELL CONCEPTS Not Products... For Example: The CONCEPT That The Corporation ExxonValdez is a BioEngineering Pioneer and They are Ecological Saints! Just Look at Their Corporate Symbol... a TREE! 

Totally Creepy ExxonValdez TV AD

Hug It and FORGET That Their Fossil Fuels are Causing Climate Change and the Extinction of Human Life on Earth ---> It is All PROPAGANDA DESIGNED TO MAKE EVIL CORPORATIONS LOOK WONDERFUL <---

BECOME AWARE AND THEIR CORPORATE BRAINWASHING FAILS... They Count on A GULLIBLE PUBLIC That BELIEVES LIES... 

British Petroleum Shows Films of Windmills... Bayer [Monsanto] want you to FORGET That They Are the Maker of RoundUP=Cancer... They Try To Distract You... Remember... We Invented Aspirin! That's what We do!

Hot Stock Market Tip: Sell all Stock in Fossil Fuel Companies... Their Business is DOOMED! Invest in Solar, Wind and COMPANIES THAT MAKE AIR CONDITIONERS... With The entire Planet Heating UP, many People will want COOL AIR...

It’s time to rein in the fossil fuel giants before their greed chokes the planet...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/09/fossil-fuel-giants-greed-carbon-emissions

Boycott Plastic Garbage! Chicken of the Sea Tuna is Marketing "Infusions" with a Plastic Bowl, Lid and Fork. Trash that will pollute the Earth for 10,000 Years. REFUSE TO BUY PLASTIC CRAP.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/09/boycot-plastic-garbage-chicken-of-sea.html

I Oppose Small PLASTIC Containers for Single Servings of Food. Since We Already Have the Technology to Make Milk Cartons, WHY NOT use Waxed Paper for Cheese, Coffee, Yogurt and Sliced Ham? https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/i-oppose-small-plastic-containers-for.html

I keep on seeing TV advertisements for Keurig Coffee that puts ONE CUP Worth of coffee grounds in a little PLASTIC container... Ridiculous! We have been brewing coffee for Hundreds of Years without Little Plastic Cups! You buy a two pound Aluminum Can and scoop a few spoonfuls into your percolator... or your drip coffee machine... using brown paper filters... simple, easy, clean, ecological and NOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE HAVE AN INVENTION THAT CREATES MILLIONS OF LITTLE PLASTIC CUPS!

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Oil and Gas Corporations are spending millions of dollars on campaigns to fight climate regulations at the same time as touting their dedication to a low-carbon future, according to a joint analysis by the Guardian and InfluenceMap.

Their global PR campaigns on social media promote a commitment to a green, low-carbon future, but across the US in particular, specific local campaigns are obstructing tighter regulations on fossil fuel extraction.

In many cases, oil and gas companies are using direct advertising but some targeted lobbying appears to be more opaque. It is channelled through so called “community” groups – which are being funded by fossil fuel companies.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/10/fossil-fuel-firms-social-media-fightback-against-climate-action

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HEY, ECO-WARRIORS! I Loved Riding the Bus and Light Rail in San Jose and EUREKA, California. I Remember I was able to get to work on the Bus ...and... Drinking and Driving is Not Only Illegal But Actually Dangerous While Drinking and Riding the Bus is FUN...

On Halloween, I Brought My Guitar and Sang for the Party Goers on the San Jose Light Rail... BIG FUN!

More Importantly, I Rode from Almaden to the San Jose Public Library and Used the Free Computers there to Build a Website in the Late 1990s. Tripod and Yahoo Geocities... I didn't know what I was doing but the Other Patrons were Happy to Help. My Content is Still Online 23 Years Later! http://www.oocities.org/gregvan/

Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants (Polluting the World) and Distributed Using WIRES. That's WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... POWER LINES CAUSE FOREST FIRES. 

Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID...

Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives

Truly Creepy TV Advertisements... Power Past Impossible Pro Oil Propaganda... Trying to sell the idea that burning Fossil Fuels is Wonderful...

It has become obvious that Renewable Energy is our future but... all those people employed in the Fossil Fuel Industry are fighting for their lives to keep the USA purchasing increasing quantities of Oil and Gas... Their jobs depend on a steady flow of oil out of the ground into refineries and into our gas tanks... and all that plastic crap that is polluting the planet... Plastic does not "go away" ever... and we already see giant swirls of floating plastic in the oceans... The People that are employed by Exxon, Shell, BP, Halliburton and Koch have vast pools of money that they are now using to buy advertising talent to convince you and I that it is "cool" to buy gas... and plastic...

an alternative to buying corporate crap is to simply reduce the amount you travel in a car... In my youth it was fashionable to drive all over the USA following The Grateful Dead (an American Rock Band)... really... people (including me) would drive 8 hours or more to attend yet another concert... I'm not making this up... Well, now days traveling places is not really needed anymore... We can travel using the internet to see what's happening on the other side of the planet... It's all this driving around that is causing Climate Change.

Of Course, we all have to drive to work every day... Unless we live close enough to the office to ride the bus... Twice in my lifetime I was able to ride the bus to work. San Jose has great bus/light rail service and so does Eureka, California. One advantage to riding the bus is that you meet people... and become friends with them. In my case I met some women on the bus. I like women and was glad to have their friendship. We would sit in the back and chat for a half an hour every workday. VERY Pleasant...

Quit buying Plastic Crap. I'll say it again... Quit buying Plastic Crap. Just look for an alternative... One thing that is absurd is all the plastic bottles for drinking water... why not drink the water right out of the tap? The answer is that often tap water is poisonous... Well, what we need to do as a society is clean up the water that comes into our homes... really... Remember that showering in poisonous water is as bad for your health as drinking fracked water... and a coke at Taco Bell comes in a plastic cup... why not a waxed paper cup?

another alternative action  is to divest your stock market portfolio of oil and gas investments... Like we divested from tobacco companies... simply call your stockbroker and ask to switch ownership of stock from oil and gas to solar and wind... It's an investment strategy that will win in the long run.


https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/06/american-petroleum-institute-superbowl-ad-oil-power-past-impossible American Petroleum Institute Launches Pro-Oil Ad Campaign... In this latest case, the real question is why API decided to begin lobbying the public directly, rather than using its money and clout to influence politicians who actually create the laws and some of the regulations governing the oil and gas industry. The answer to that question is likely simple: The oil and gas industries are already maximizing the benefits they are receiving from elected leaders, and are now focusing on gaining public approval.

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Elizabeth Warren Would make a GREAT Secretary of the Treasury... If she doesn't win the 2020 Election, Sanders should appoint her. She has Great Ideas. Kamala Harris for Attorney General. Cory Booker at HUD... Every Democratic Candidate Ought to Get a Cabinet Post. WHAT IF WE ALL WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren/democrat-warren-confronts-2020-electability-question-head-on-in-ohio-idUSKCN1SH0DH


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It may be GREENWASHING but ExxonValdez Might actually discover something worthwhile... GO! https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/10/nrel-exxonmobil-team-up-for-renewable-energy-research/
the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado has teamed up with ExxonMobil to “pursue new breakthroughs in low-emission energy technologies,” according to the Denver Post. By the terms of the agreement, ExxonMobil will invest $100 million over the next decade in the NREL’s research programs.

Trump's EPA Ruling in Favor of Corporate Pollution and Against People's Health...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/climate/epa-asbestos-rule-scientists.html
E.P.A. Leaders Disregarded Agency’s Experts in Issuing Asbestos Rule, Memos Show...

Andrew Wheeler, the E.P.A. administrator, said when the rule was issued that it would significantly strengthen public health protections. But in the memos, dated Aug. 10, more than a dozen of E.P.A.’s own experts urged the agency to ban asbestos outright, as do most other industrialized nations.

A Quote from - Richard Brautigan
“Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.
1.Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.
2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.
3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.
4.” [YES, ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS LEFT BLANK INTENTIONALLY]
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7970.Richard_Brautigan

THE EVIDENCE IS STRONG: AIR POLLUTION SEEMS TO CAUSE DEMENTIA.
https://www.wired.com/story/air-pollution-dementia/
As I reported in Mother Jones, the research implicating air pollution as one factor that can contribute to dementia was alarming, consistent, and, ultimately, “suggestive.” Since then scientists have published a wave of studies that reveal that air pollution is much worse for us than we had previously imagined.

Elie Mystal and Symone Sanders OUGHT TO Form a Rap Music Group... They Could Do Their "Angry Yadda-Yadda" with a Beat and Sell a Gazillion Recordings! Is she Sarah Huckleberry Sander's Sister or Colonel Sander's Daughter?

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/10/epa-air-chief-3238271
A secretive utility industry coalition formerly represented by a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency is dissolving amid investigations into whether its members received special treatment from the Trump administration.

The Utility Air Regulatory Group has been under scrutiny from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which was seeking information on the relationship between power companies, EPA air chief Bill Wehrum and the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth, which represented the group.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE: I Stopped advertising for Amazon on my Blog... They simply did not pay enough to make the Associates Program worth my time and SPACE ON MY BLOG... I always put a Link to buy my favorite books whenever I wrote a Review... I still write Book Reviews because I want The IDEAS written about to be published worldwide... and the Authors benefit from free advertising... and maybe that will encourage them to write more books... C-SPAN has Interviews with authors every weekend and It's interesting... and Pirate TV also has Authors... "HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE" by Andrew Keen sounds GREAT...

In the "Ender's Game" series of Books by Andrew Scott Card, Ender and his sister become BLOGGERS and Debate Ideas in Public... and cause Galactic Peace thru the publication of worthy concepts... I'm inspired by that book... I'm a Blogger Promoting Whirred Peas by Publishing My Own Words of Wisdom... and Finding Wise Words online and Pirating Them... Did you ever read "The Monkeywrench Gang" by Ed Abbey? It's Wonderful... The Hero, George Washington Hayduke is based on TED Danson of the TV Show "Cheers." 

There Will Always Be Another Last Chance Sale... Quotations of Gregory Vanderlaan

My Brother has "High Frequency Rolloff" Deafness. It Make it Difficult to Hear Women and Children Talk. He Says: "What a Blessing!"

WHO COULD POSSIBLY BENEFIT BY MORE HOMELESS AMERICAN CITIZEN CHILDREN? Proposed Rule Could Evict 55,000 Children From Subsidized Housing
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/10/722173775/proposed-rule-could-evict-55-000-children-from-subsidized-housing
Tens of thousands of poor children — all of them American citizens or legal residents — could lose their housing under a new rule proposed Friday by the Trump administration.

The rule is intended to prevent people who are in the country illegally from receiving federal housing aid, which the administration argues should go to help only legal residents or citizens.

But the proposal targets 25,000 families that now receive such aid because they are of "mixed" status, which means that at least one member of the family is undocumented while the others are citizens or legal residents. These families now pay higher rents to account for their mixed status.


Rap Artist Indicted for Obama 2012 Campaign Donations... How Could It Possibly Matter all these Years Later? This is "OLD NEWS" Just like the Jewish Carpenter who Rose from the Dead 2000 years ago... That's REALLY OLD NEWS... Just Like Trump being the #BillionDollarLoser... That's OLD NEWS... Wait! I Understand why old news matters... We Could LEARN FROM HISTORY! We Ought to Investigate ALL FOREIGN CAMPAIGN DONATIONS! Like the NRA/Russia 30 Million to Trump Scandal... Malaysian businessman Jho Low also charged alongside Pras Michel...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-rap-artist-indicted-for-obama-2012-campaign-donations-11557522077
Former Fugees rapper Pras Michel was indicted on charges of funneling millions of dollars in foreign money to then President Obama’s 2012 re-election effort, amid widening fallout of the multibillion-dollar fraud scandal at a Malaysian government fund.

Hot Stock Market Tip: Sell all Stock in Fossil Fuel Companies... Their Business is DOOMED! Invest in Solar, Wind and COMPANIES THAT MAKE AIR CONDITIONERS... With The entire Planet Heating UP, many People will want COOL AIR...

It’s time to rein in the fossil fuel giants before their greed chokes the planet...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/09/fossil-fuel-giants-greed-carbon-emissions

Totally Creepy ExxonValdez TV AD

Oil and gas companies are spending millions of dollars on campaigns to fight climate regulations at the same time as touting their dedication to a low-carbon future, according to a joint analysis by the Guardian and InfluenceMap.

Their global PR campaigns on social media promote a commitment to a green, low-carbon future, but across the US in particular, specific local campaigns are obstructing tighter regulations on fossil fuel extraction.

In many cases, oil and gas companies are using direct advertising but some targeted lobbying appears to be more opaque. It is channelled through so called “community” groups – which are being funded by fossil fuel companies.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/10/fossil-fuel-firms-social-media-fightback-against-climate-action

Why are ExxonValdez and BP [British Petroleum] advertising on Television? Do they hope ads will cause increased sales? It all seems like Propaganda to convince the public that they are NOT EVIL.

What is this organization called Power Past Impossible? They say Climate Change is Wonderful!  Warm Sunny Days in Alaska All Year 'Round!

Those ExxonValdez ads just really creep me out... They constantly show Trees and Meadows and the Park... and Biology research into alternative slime based fuel... BioWillie!

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/IW6P/exxon-mobil-carbon-capture

American Petroleum Institute Launches Pro-Oil Ad Campaign During Super Bowl

https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/06/american-petroleum-institute-superbowl-ad-oil-power-past-impossible

What is fossil fuel divestment?

https://gofossilfree.org/divestment/what-is-fossil-fuel-divestment/

Divestment is the opposite of an investment – it simply means getting rid of stocks, bonds, or investment funds that are unethical or morally ambiguous.

When you invest your money, you might buy stocks, bonds, or other investments that generate income for you. Universities (and colleges in the US), religious organizations, retirement funds, and other institutions put billions in these same kinds of investments to generate income to help them run. Fossil fuel investments are a risk for both investors and the planet, so we’re calling on institutions to divest from these companies.

Divestment is also to end to fossil fuel sponsorship. Fossil fuels companies cultivate sponsorship relationships to help create a ‘social licence to operate’. This contributes to the veneer of legitimacy that enables them to keep expanding operations at a time of climate crisis and to stifle the demands for justice of those communities who live on the frontline of their destructive, polluting operations.

We are an international network of campaigns and campaigners working toward freeing communities from fossil fuels. While each campaign is independently run and may bring different emphases and asks depending on their local context, the majority of campaigns are asking institutions to:

• Immediately freeze any new investment in fossil fuel companies;
• Divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within 5 years
• End their fossil fuels sponsorship

Great Book: "Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill" by Riki Ott... 28th Amendment - Remove Money From Politics

https://www.amazon.com/Not-One-Drop-Betrayal-Courage/dp/1933392584

Betrayed by oilmen’s promises in the 1970s, the people of Prince William Sound, Alaska, awaken on March 14, 1989, to the nation’s largest oil spill. Not One Drop is an extraordinary tale of ordinary lives ripped apart by disaster and of community healing through building relationships of trust. This story offers critical lessons for a society traumatized by political divides and facing the looming catastrophe of global climate change.

Author Riki Ott, a rare combination of commercial salmon “fisherm’am” and PhD marine biologist, describes firsthand the impacts of oil companies’ broken promises when the Exxon Valdez spills most of its cargo and despoils thousands of miles of shore.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-ropeik/the-28th-amendment-a-new_b_12235494.html

The idea of a 28th amendment to the constitution, to limit the influence of money in politics and return at least a little more control of the federal government to the people, is as popular in the U.S. as our national government is unpopular.