April 23, 2022
Thank God for Petroleum
Dana Mathewson
Half the products we buy -- excluding food -- are petroleum-based. You couldn't build a modern computer without plastics. Or a modern car. Or a TV.
Tim adds:
Even food uses oil sometimes Dana. Some of the best preservatives we used to use to keep food fresh was made from petroleum biproducts. I think they've gotten rid of that, which is why bread is now stale all the time straight from the supermarket.
Oil was truly God's gift to humanity - and we have thrown it back in His face.
There is BHA and BHT, both petroleum based products used to maintain food freshness. Also THBQ. And most food coloring is petroleum based.
Our old friend, the late Alan Caruba, used to write about these a lot. He analyzed the health patterns and saw they were safe and effective, but a left-wing campaign was launched against them years ago and while they haven't won yet they have managed to minimize the use of these products. That's why so many things lack freshness these days.
Pop Tarts, Pringles (well, you probably guessed that), Kraft macaroni and cheese, M & M's, Cheerios, are just a few of the foods that use petroleum-based preservatives to make them delicious.
Many health nazis try to claim this is the cause of autism, or HDAD, or other modern problems, but there is no evidence of that fact.
We eat all manner of Earth-based stuff. Petroleum is completely natural and comes out of the Earth - something the hippie Back To The Earth types claim to want. It is not a synthetic material devised in a lab (like many other preservatives). Attacks on it are merely a part of the war on petroleum being waged by the morons.
Before we had such preservatives we ran the risk of food spoiling and our getting sick from it.
Bear in mind, too, that these same people resist irradiating food (which kills the germs), and also resist using DNA to create foods resistant to rot.
Why, it's as if they don't want us to have safe food at all! I think that is the case; they want a lower population and safe, long lasting food does not comport with that.
Nor does oil, the lifeblood of our economy.
Also, how are we going to package food without petroleum based products? Go back to glass? Most glass has plastic in it these days.
Decades ago my friend and I would drive over to Illinois to liquor store where we could get "bar bottles" which were solid glass. They tasted so much better - but you had to watch the chips on the lip when you drank them! They had to be returned. Another friend's brother in law ran the Jacksonville bottling plant for Anheuser Bush and he told us that the throwaway bottles had considerable plastic in them. Yes, there was glass, but plastic was added to increase their strength and make them cheaper to boot.
So petroleum is responsible for our entire civilization and we should be on our knees thanking God for it!
Half the products we buy -- excluding food -- are petroleum-based. You couldn't build a modern computer without plastics. Or a modern car. Or a TV.
Tim adds:
Even food uses oil sometimes Dana. Some of the best preservatives we used to use to keep food fresh was made from petroleum biproducts. I think they've gotten rid of that, which is why bread is now stale all the time straight from the supermarket.
Oil was truly God's gift to humanity - and we have thrown it back in His face.
There is BHA and BHT, both petroleum based products used to maintain food freshness. Also THBQ. And most food coloring is petroleum based.
Our old friend, the late Alan Caruba, used to write about these a lot. He analyzed the health patterns and saw they were safe and effective, but a left-wing campaign was launched against them years ago and while they haven't won yet they have managed to minimize the use of these products. That's why so many things lack freshness these days.
Pop Tarts, Pringles (well, you probably guessed that), Kraft macaroni and cheese, M & M's, Cheerios, are just a few of the foods that use petroleum-based preservatives to make them delicious.
Many health nazis try to claim this is the cause of autism, or HDAD, or other modern problems, but there is no evidence of that fact.
We eat all manner of Earth-based stuff. Petroleum is completely natural and comes out of the Earth - something the hippie Back To The Earth types claim to want. It is not a synthetic material devised in a lab (like many other preservatives). Attacks on it are merely a part of the war on petroleum being waged by the morons.
Before we had such preservatives we ran the risk of food spoiling and our getting sick from it.
Bear in mind, too, that these same people resist irradiating food (which kills the germs), and also resist using DNA to create foods resistant to rot.
Why, it's as if they don't want us to have safe food at all! I think that is the case; they want a lower population and safe, long lasting food does not comport with that.
Nor does oil, the lifeblood of our economy.
Also, how are we going to package food without petroleum based products? Go back to glass? Most glass has plastic in it these days.
Decades ago my friend and I would drive over to Illinois to liquor store where we could get "bar bottles" which were solid glass. They tasted so much better - but you had to watch the chips on the lip when you drank them! They had to be returned. Another friend's brother in law ran the Jacksonville bottling plant for Anheuser Bush and he told us that the throwaway bottles had considerable plastic in them. Yes, there was glass, but plastic was added to increase their strength and make them cheaper to boot.
So petroleum is responsible for our entire civilization and we should be on our knees thanking God for it!
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Quite frankly, I think we could do without Pringles... 
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 23, 2022 08:59 PM (GIKgf)
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I like Pringles. They are much like eating cardboard, granted, but they last forever.
Oh, and they make terrific fire starters if you are ever lost in the woods with a can of them.
Oh, and they make terrific fire starters if you are ever lost in the woods with a can of them.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 24, 2022 09:35 AM (FX7rB)
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OK, I'll give you firestarters. But doesn't that make you suspicious of them, right there?
We much prefer Kettle-Cooked potato chips, especially Lay's. And there's a corn-chip scoop for dip from Trader Joe's that beats the rest of them all to heck.
We much prefer Kettle-Cooked potato chips, especially Lay's. And there's a corn-chip scoop for dip from Trader Joe's that beats the rest of them all to heck.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 24, 2022 02:19 PM (GIKgf)
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But of course they should give us pause; they are completely artificial. But then conrn chips are no better; they make great fire starters too.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 25, 2022 08:37 AM (B2AB/)
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Just think of every corn chip you eat as a victory against adulterating our gasoline with alcohol.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 26, 2022 06:52 AM (GIKgf)
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Hear hear!
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 26, 2022 08:38 AM (z8pmC)
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