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Petroleum Products (partial list)

A partial list of products made from Petroleum (144 of 6000 items)

One 42-gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline. The rest (over half) is used to make things like:

Solvents	Diesel fuel	Motor Oil	Bearing Grease
Ink	Floor Wax	Ballpoint Pens	Football Cleats
Upholstery	Sweaters	Boats	Insecticides
Bicycle Tires	Sports Car Bodies	Nail Polish	Fishing lures
Dresses	Tires	Golf Bags	Perfumes
Cassettes	Dishwasher parts	Tool Boxes	Shoe Polish
Motorcycle Helmet	Caulking	Petroleum Jelly	Transparent Tape
CD Player	Faucet Washers	Antiseptics	Clothesline
Curtains	Food Preservatives	Basketballs	Soap
Vitamin Capsules	Antihistamines	Purses	Shoes
Dashboards	Cortisone	Deodorant	Footballs
Putty	Dyes	Panty Hose	Refrigerant
Percolators	Life Jackets	Rubbing Alcohol	Linings
Skis	TV Cabinets	Shag Rugs	Electrician's Tape
Tool Racks	Car Battery Cases	Epoxy	Paint
Mops	Slacks	Insect Repellent	Oil Filters
Umbrellas	Yarn	Fertilizers	Hair Coloring
Roofing	Toilet Seats	Fishing Rods	Lipstick
Denture Adhesive	Linoleum	Ice Cube Trays	Synthetic Rubber
Speakers	Plastic Wood	Electric Blankets	Glycerin
Tennis Rackets	Rubber Cement	Fishing Boots	Dice
Nylon Rope	Candles	Trash Bags	House Paint
Water Pipes	Hand Lotion	Roller Skates	Surf Boards
Shampoo	Wheels	Paint Rollers	Shower Curtains
Guitar Strings	Luggage	Aspirin	Safety Glasses
Antifreeze	Football Helmets	Awnings	Eyeglasses
Clothes	Toothbrushes	Ice Chests	Footballs
Combs	CD's & DVD's	Paint Brushes	Detergents
Vaporizers	Balloons	Sun Glasses	Tents
Heart Valves	Crayons	Parachutes	Telephones
Enamel	Pillows	Dishes	Cameras
Anesthetics	Artificial Turf	Artificial limbs	Bandages
Dentures	Model Cars	Folding Doors	Hair Curlers
Cold cream	Movie film	Soft Contact lenses	Drinking Cups
Fan Belts	Car Enamel	Shaving Cream	Ammonia
Refrigerators	Golf Balls	Toothpaste	Gasoline

Americans consume petroleum products at a rate of three-and-a-half gallons of oil and more than 
250 cubic feet of natural gas per day each! But, as shown here petroleum is not just used for fuel.

 

 

 

SOS Abita

Abita beer has brewed a new beer to support the Gulf Coast charities.

From their website: SOS.ABITA.COM:

SOS – A Charitable Fund that will assist with the rescue and restoration of the environment, industry and individuals fighting to survive this disastrous oil spill.

The fund has pledged that 100% of all money raised will go to charity. In addition, the Louisiana Seafood Marketing Board will play an important role in advising where the money can do the most good. An advisory committee is being established as the donation process and grant procedures are finalized.




The centerpiece of the fundraising effort is a new charitable beer created by Abita. The brew is called SOS – A Charitable Pilsner.



This Abita Beer is a message in a bottle...a distress signal for the troubled waters of our Gulf Coast.



For every bottle sold Abita will donate 75¢ to the rescue and restoration of the environment, industry and individuals fighting to survive this disastrous oil spill. This unfiltered Weizen Pils is made with Pilsner and Wheat malts. It is hopped and dry hopped with Sterling and German Perle hops. It has a brilliant gold color, a sweet malt flavor, and a pleasant bitterness and aroma.

In addition, related retail merchandise (hat, tee shirt, lapel pin, decal and car magnet) will be sold and 100% of the net proceeds will also go to the SOS Fund.

Available at Rouses, I heard on the radio this morning that there is a limited amount of this beer, so buy early.

The website is very unique. Check it out here.


I've ordered a baseball cap!!!

The Chauvins

'No way' for BP to make shrimpers whole?
Family used to crises fears it's too much
BY CHRIS JOYNER
GANNETT NEWS SERVICE

CHAUVIN, La. -- Kim and David Chauvin are old hands at crisis management.


In 2005, Hurricane Rita swamped their home, which doubles as their family shrimping business, Mariah Jade Seafood. Hurricane Gustav was a direct hit in 2008.
Each time, Kim, David and the kids got to work, fixed what the storms broke and moved on. "You get loans and do what you have to do," Kim Chauvin said.
This disaster is different.

Since the April 20 BP oil spill, the Chauvins spend their days working the phones instead of trawling southeast Louisiana's shrimp-rich water.
Kim Chauvin lobbies state and federal officials for more action, using her pull with the state seafood association to keep up the pressure.

Her husband is constantly in touch with BP, making sure the family's three shrimp boats remain part of BP's Vessels of Opportunity program, which hires privately owned boats to help contain the spill.

"We live on the phone lately," David Chauvin said. "I'm starting to answer the phone, 'Crisis hot line.' "

Every member of the family is involved in the family business. Sons David, 21, and Dustin, 20, work on the family's shrimp boats along with their 14-year-old sister, Mariah.

The Chauvins knew the severity of the spill before most Americans. A few days after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers, a BP contractor visited David Chauvin to ask for his help in arranging for a couple of dozen shrimp boats to help fight the growing disaster.

David Chauvin can still remember the contractor's warning: "It's going to be bad."
That turned out to be an understatement.

On a typical summer day, Mariah Jade Seafood brings in 100,000 pounds of shrimp for processing. Recently, that haul has dropped to 13,000 pounds for an entire week.

Kim and David Chauvin were high school sweethearts who married at 18.
David Chauvin, a fifth-generation shrimper, is the hands-on manager at Mariah Jade, working the boats with his children. Kim Chauvin keeps the books and relentlessly lobbies for the company and the Louisiana shrimping industry.

Mariah Jade was poised for a big year, but the Chauvins expect to lose $1.6 million in gross sales in May because of the oil spill. The family has received some compensation from BP, but Kim Chauvin scoffs at the idea the company will make anyone whole, as it has promised.

"I've seen people who gross $3 million get a $75,000 check," she said. "There is no way this oil company can make this community whole."

Kim Chauvin said all they want is to go back to work.

"This was not the fishing community's fault," she said.

Ex BP Cleanup Person speaks out

Former BP oil spill clean up worker Kellie Fellows discusses her experiences working on a beach cleanup team cleaning up oil from BP's Gulf oil disaster.

The hidden L.A. oil rigs

I find it funny that so many people from California don't want drilling off their coast, but I wonder if they know their city has oil fields all over the place!!



H/T Huffington Post

Thanks, Jimmy Buffet

from deepwaterhorizonresponse.com

GULF SHORES, Ala. – Today, Alabama Unified Command’s efforts to recover wildlife along the Gulf Coast were enhanced with the donation of a special boat from singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett.

The popular entertainer has donated a boat to help recover oil-soaked wildlife. The boat, built by Dragonfly Boatworks in Vero Beach, Fla., was designed specifically to navigate the shallow waters and marshes of the Gulf Coast to retrieve injured wildlife.

The boat will play an important role in the efforts of Alabama Unified Command to ensure that local wildlife are rescued and transported to rehabilitation centers.
The vessel was given to the Friends of the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, a non-profit organization that supports Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is located in coastal Alabama and is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

“Alabama Unified Command is excited to be working with the local community to do all we can to address the needs of wildlife affected by the oil spill,” said Pete Benjamin, a Fish and Wildlife employee with Mobile Wildlife Operations. “This new asset will improve our efforts to rescue wildlife and ensure that animals are cared for and rehabilitated.”

“We are going to ensure the boat is provided to the wildlife recovery teams, which will patrol the shallow areas around Bon Secour and Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuges along with other sensitive places,” said Ralph Gilges, President of the Friends of Bon Secour NWR.



Shallow Water Attention Terminal (S.W.A.T.) boats are built on a flat hull and operate in waters as shallow as 8-10 inches. This particular boat was designed by Mark Castlow and Jimbo Meador, co-owners of Dragonfly Boatworks, who recognized the need for a boat with the ability to operate in shallow waters and marshy areas.

“The folks from Dragonfly Boatworks are thrilled to help: I’m excited we have a relationship with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and that the boat will be used for what it was intended,” said co-owner Jimbo Meador.

Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge Manager Jereme Phillips lauded the duo.
“Castlow and Meador recognized a need, identified a solution, and made it happen with the help of Jimmy Buffett,” said Phillips. “Friends of Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, our refuge support group, closed the loop to facilitate the donation by accepting the boat on behalf of the Refuge. We are immensely grateful to Mr. Buffett for his gift and concern for our treasured wildlife.”

The Dragonfly co-owners have been working nonstop for weeks to modify a popular design for shallow-draft fishing boats, literally turning them into mobile triage wards for oiled wildlife. Designed specifically with wildlife rescue in mind, it has a canopy to protect workers and birds from the sun and a table to make it easier to examine wildlife. The boat also has a misting system to provide further cooling and is equipped with Wi-Fi and video cameras to enable remote viewing of the rescue operations.

The boat is scheduled to begin wildlife recovery operations during the week of July 19.
Greg Vergari, wildlife recovery operations coordinator, will be selecting a two-person crew trained for the safe recovery of injured wildlife. The crew will follow standard wildlife rescue protocol, which quickly transports recovered animals to nearby treatment centers.

“The S.W.A.T boat will be added to the fleet of 14 wildlife recovery boats, and it will work initially around our local national wildlife refuges,” stated Vergari. “The crew can inspect habitat conditions for oil contamination while they search for injured wildlife.”

Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge is one of Alabama's best-kept secrets and protects a variety of habitats. For more information on Bon Secour, log on to: http://www.fws.gov/bonsecour/.

History of the Oil Industry in Gulf Coast

Great history of the oil industry in Louisiana from nola dot com.

Here's a graphic showing the jobs lost due to Obama's moratorium. Click on the graphic for a larger version.

Interview with Kindra Arneson

Kindra Arnesen, outspoken critic of BP from Venice, Louisiana and advocate for the fishermen of the Gulf Coast and their families, indeed for all families in trouble from the oil catastrophe in the Gulf, was interviewed live on Hard Tail News of Freedomizer Radio by regular host "Doc" on July 15th. The topics include the new cap, BP coverups and double-crosses, toxic rain, oil plumes and hurricane impacts on the oil disaster.

Here is her hour interview with Doc in five parts



Click here to hear the interview

Help for pets of Fishermen/Seafood Workers

Louisiana SPCA is ready to help fisher people and those that work in the Seafood business.

The Louisiana SPCA is offering free food, free spay/neutering,free microchipping, free vacinations and bloodwork. All you need to provide is proof that you work in the industry (license, pay stub). Go to the link above for details for your area.

Oil Spill Day 88 Numbers

July 16, 2010 from deepwaterhorizon.com

Approximately 43,800 personnel are currently responding to protect the shoreline and wildlife and cleanup vital coastlines.

More than 6,900 vessels are currently responding on site, including skimmers, tugs, barges, and recovery vessels to assist in containment and cleanup efforts—in addition to dozens of aircraft, remotely operated vehicles, and multiple mobile offshore drilling units.

More than 3.32 million feet of containment boom and 7 million feet of sorbent boom have been deployed to contain the spill—and approximately 856,000 feet of containment boom and 2.74 million feet of sorbent boom are available.

More than 33.3 million gallons of an oil-water mix have been recovered.

Approximately 1.84 million gallons of total dispersant have been applied—1.07 million on the surface and 771,000 sub-sea. Approximately 541,000 gallons are available.

387 controlled burns have been conducted, efficiently removing a total of more than 10.98 million gallons of oil from the open water in an effort to protect shoreline and wildlife. Because calculations on the volume of oil burned can take more than 48 hours, the reported total volume may not reflect the most recent controlled burns.

17 staging areas are in place to protect sensitive shorelines.

Approximately 587 miles of Gulf Coast shoreline is currently oiled—approximately 336 miles in Louisiana, 112 miles in Mississippi, 68 miles in Alabama, and 71 miles in Florida. These numbers reflect a daily snapshot of shoreline currently experiencing impacts from oil so that planning and field operations can more quickly respond to new impacts; they do not include cumulative impacts to date, or shoreline that has already been cleared.

Approximately 83,927 square miles of Gulf of Mexico federal waters remain closed to fishing in order to balance economic and public health concerns. More than 65 percent remains open. Details can be found at http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/.

To date, the administration has leveraged assets and skills from numerous foreign countries and international organizations as part of this historic, all-hands-on-deck response, including Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Russia, Spain, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization, the European Union's Monitoring and Information Centre, and the European Maritime Safety Agency.