James Howard Kunstler
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 Diesel fuel is just another product of the oil refineries, after all, and would be subject to the same market instabilities as gasoline supplies. As we know from history, railroad engines can also run on coal. They would produce more carbon dioxide and particulate pollution than engines run on diesel, but the number of engines running at any one time would be minuscule compared, say, to the number of cars on the road at any moment in 2004. Electric motors have fewer moving parts than diesel or steam engines and are less subject to breakdown or explosion than coal-fired steam engines. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 That is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline."
We may have been wrong. It's not just that millions of people have used this product successfully for decades. This tablet of aspirin (325 milligrams), bicarbonate of soda (1,916 milligrams), and citric acid (1,000 milligrams) is converted into sodium citrate when it fizzes in a glass of water. This antacid seems to provide fast and effective relief of "acid indigestion, upset stomach, and heartburn. |
James Howard Kunstler
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| This applies in particular to all schemes promoting ethanol (alcohol derived from plants) as an "environmentally friendly" additive to gasoline. The amount of petroleum and natural gas needed to produce the corn to make the ethanol would more than cancel out any benefit from using a supposedly non-fossil fuel.
In fact, we will surely have to resort to one particular form of "biomass" use in the future, but not in any way resembling the fantasies proposed by the corporate and environmentalist tech-meisters. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Sources of lead exposure include lead-based paints, ceramic glazes, lead crystal dishes and glassware, leaded gasoline, lead-acid batteries used in automobiles, tobacco, liver, water, some domestic and imported wines, canned fruit (the lead from lead-soldered cans leaches out and is absorbed by fruits), garden vegetables (if grown in lead-contaminated soil), bone meal, and insecticides. Even such innocuous-seeming items as vinyl mini-blinds and porcelain-glazed sinks and bathtubs have been implicated in lead exposure. |
| RFG accounts for some 30 percent of gasoline sold in the United States, and MTBE is now added to over 80 percent of RFG fuel.
According to a disturbing report aired on the CBS television program 60 Minutes on January 16, 2000, this measure to improve air quality has, ironically, given Americans yet another reason to be concerned about the safety of their drinking water supply. MTBE has been seeping into all our water supplies, both surface and underground, at an alarming rate. It has been found in storm water in 592 samples collected in sixteen cities between 1991 and 1995. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So you'll save money every month in terms of gasoline alone. And as fuel costs continue to rise in our uncertain global economy, this could save you even more in the years ahead. Longer term, you may even consider switching to a hybrid vehicle, although hybrids are today not well justified in terms of cost savings alone. (There are other reasons to own a hybrid, however...)
The second thing to consider is the value of your life and safety, since new cars have much better safety features. |
Peter Rost
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 Exposure to Criminal Proceedings
It was time to pour more gasoline on the smoldering ashes of my career. Ronald Chapman probably had no idea that Pharmacia had delivered his e-mails to Wyeth's attorney, who was in turn obligated to turn them over to me. But I was happy to inform him of this. So I wrote him to say that I had reviewed his correspondence with Pharmacia's general counsel. I emphasized to Ronald that my situation was a simple employment matter, and his main concern should be his exposure to criminal and civil proceedings related to the endocrine care franchise. |
Gary Null
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 The car, of course—and gasoline. gasoline vaporizes. The afterburn fumes caused by inefficient burning of gasoline are mostly carbon dioxide, which has no odor and is invisible. Breathing these fumes results in headache, dizziness, and mood swings. (Think of people stuck in traffic jams, breathing the afterburn of all the cars around them for hours at a time.) When you park a hot car in the garage and close the door behind it, the hot oil in the engine is volatile and gets into the air. Park the car outside and wait for it to cool off before you bring it into the garage. |
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
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 Remember the analogy of serotonin to gasoline?—how we need enough "fuel" for the car (our body) to run, but not so much gasoline to flood the engine? Well, think of tryptophan as the fossil fuel from which gasoline is made.
After we eat tryptophan, in pill or the proper food form, and it crosses our blood-brain barrier (see "Protein" section, page 107), serotonin is produced. The result: we feel great!
Here's a list of the foods highest in tryptophan. Are any of these foods those that you commonly crave? |
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
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 In other words, hospitals are treated more leniently than gasoline stations, and a large excavation that you might see on a street corner is probably the former site of a leaky gasoline tank rather than a hospital.
A Tucson lumber supplier has a hole in his yard that could swallow a nine-story building. The dirt and crushed rock from that hole are being fed through an incinerator, to remove the minuscule traces of petroleum products that allegedly leaked from a gasoline tank about six years ago. The former owner of the site is bankrupt, and one man is dead. |
Melody Petersen
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 Americans spent $213.7 billion on prescription drugs in 2004, according to Table 2.4.5U, but this amount does not include drugs used in hospitals and other such facilities.
5 Americans spend more on medicines than do all the people of Japan: According to statistics from IMS Health's "Retail Drug Monitor: 12 months to Feb. 2005." Available at imshealth.com.
5 65 percent of the nation now takes: "Outpatient Prescription Drug Expenses in the U.S. Community Population, 2003," Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Chartbook No. 16. Available at meps.ahrq.gov.
5 build their laboratories on . . . |
Alex Steffen
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 Maybe that was true a few centuries ago, but today breast milk usually contains a whole host of toxins, including contaminants found in things like paint thinner, fungicides, and gasoline. The chemicals of industrial production that lurk everywhere make their way into our babies' bodies with every gulp.
Fear tactics aren't necessarily the best motivation for change, but the ingredients in common household cleaners are downright frightening. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Schroeder, mastermind scientist (who removed lead from gasoline and paints in the 1970's) whose research showed theincrediblemineral-enhancingpropertiesoflndium. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Explosion technology is how we combust gasoline to drive our cars. We explode atoms to create atomic energy. This is certainly wasteful and dangerous, as well as inefficient, because we lose most of the chemical energy stored in the fuel in this conversion process. Most of this energy is lost through friction resistance, which creates a whole lot of heat. Implosion technology is different because it is based on vortex energy - the same vortex energy described in other parts of this book - and on reversing the flow of the vortex. |
KC Craichy
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 The most abundant chemical in both perfume departments and body shops was toluene (a component of gasoline), which is a teratogen (a chemical that can damage the developing fetus).15 Below are some of the physiological effects of some of these chemicals:
¦ Toluene—An EPA study found that 100 percent of the perfumes examined in the study contained toluene, a known mutagen and sensitizer that can easily accumulate in the body. Toluene not only triggers asthma attacks, it is known to produce asthma in previously healthy people. |
| Pesticides, soil depletion, radiation, mercury from dental amalgam fillings, cadmium from cigarettes and secondhand smoke, chemicals from the air, and lead from old mines, gasoline, tap water, and lead-based paints are just a few of the toxins we are exposed to on a daily basis. The primary heavy metal contaminants are lead, mercury, cadmium, aluminum, and arsenic.
The free-radical damage that results from heavy metal pollution has been linked to many diseases, including heart attacks, stroke, ll!ll!!ll!ll!l!ll[|l!!!!JII!ill!!! |
Joseph E. Mario
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| This superior oil can also provide all lubricants and gasoline fuel that Americans use and bum each year domestically (not mentioning exports); and paints made with it dry quickly (like with Linseed oil). If 6% of American land was devoted to (Hemp) biomass cultivation, the nation would be energy independent and wealthy.
Hemp was brought to Jamestown, America, in 1611 and cultivated for fiber; introduced into New England in 1629, Hemp (marihuana) soon became a national crop. In 1640 the State of Connecticut ordered every family to plant Hemp. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The six hour charging time is typical for electric vehicles. The power is supplied through your household current, so the electricity could be generated by coal, solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear sources, depending on what your electric utility company uses. Off-board charging can be accomplished with a special charger in as little as 10 minutes, and a company called GreenIt is planning the construction of rapid-charging stations for electric cars.
Phoenix Motors is generating a lot of interest from consumers, and may start selling vehicles to the general public in the next two years. |
Joseph E. Mario
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| Commercial antioxidant (not fit for human consumption): To protect gasoline from oxidating to gums with BHT, 1/2 pound to 1100 gallons, or l/4tsp.pergallon stores well over two years. |
| Benzene A lightweight industrial solvent, component in gasoline, seeping into the groundwater from underground gas tanks; affects the blood and Immunity, destroys bone marrow for leukemia. Take Vitamins to counter.
Butylated Hydroxy Anisole/BHA A preservative used in food; causes allergies.
Butylated Hydroxy Toluene/BHT An antioxidant used in foods; in animal tests, affected offspring with Brain changes and damage, and abnormal behavior. Banned for use in food in England. |
| MTBE leakage from underground gasoline tanks contaminated 8 out of 10 water wells shut down in Santa Monica, California for 100 years. PESTICIDES and HERBICIDES 268 pesticide 'tolerances' have been established out of about 500 pesticides in common use. American farmers spread 1.5 billion pounds oftoxins each year, but only 1 % of food shipments are ever tested for residue. Average pesticide intake is 100 meg. per day inthediet(.l ppm). |
| Ethylene DiBromide (EDB) A highly toxic and controlled carcinogenic pesticide used in leaded gasoline until banned by the EPA in 1983, a heavy liquid with chloroform odor converts to gas at over 40A F, reported mixed and dispersed in JP-8 jet fuel exhaust visible as long or intersecting white clouds over the American heartlands in 1997-1998 for population control; tested in Cape Cod cranberry ponds, Maryland and Pennsylvania. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There's no doubt in my mind that within a few years, mercury fillings will be banned and they will join the ranks of lead paint, asbestos insulation, leaded gasoline and radiation pills. They will go into the historical annals of bad medicine, and some day future generations will think we were absolutely crazy to be putting mercury in people's mouths.
More poison from dentists: fluoride
That's not the end of the toxicity in the world of dentistry, we also have dentists pushing for, get this, the dripping of a highly toxic chemical waste product into the water supply... |
Alex Steffen
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| A cup of Tanzanian coffee, some Brazilian orange juice, and you're off to work in your Japanese car—assembled in Kentucky, powered by gasoline from Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Russia. Good morning!
In our increasingly globalized age, you're likely to handle objects imported from several dozen different nations before you even eat breakfast. Advances in transportation and communications technology have made it possible for businesses to source raw materials and products from nearly anywhere in the world and ship them out to consumers around the globe. |
Mike Adams
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 One hundred percent of all explosives and one hundred percent of all synthetic gasoline came from the factories of
IG Farben. Whenever the German
Wehrmacht conquered another country,
IG Farben followed, systematically taking over the industries of those countries. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 In the not-too-distant past, leaded gasoline presented the greatest source of lead exposure. In 1968 alone, 500 million pounds of this metal were released into the atmosphere. Once federal guidelines were established in the 1970s, lead levels began to fall—by an astronomical 78 percent during the period from 1976 to 1991.
Other common sources of lead include soil, cans, paint, plaster, pipes, solder, newsprint, ceramic glaze, some herbal products, and even enclosed shooting ranges. Of particular concern today are herbal sources of lead contamination. |
Carlo Petrini
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 Those who do eat often do not enjoy it, but simply put gasoline into an engine. Those who do enjoy it often do not care about anything else: about the farmers and the earth, about nature and the good things it can offer us.
Few people know about the food they eat and derive enjoyment from that knowledge, a source of pleasure which unites all the people who share it.
I am a gastronome, and if that makes you smile, I assure you that it is not easy to be one. It is a complex matter, for gastronomy, though a Cinderella in the world of knowledge, is in fact a true science, which can open eyes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Using credit cards and other forms of debt to buy clothing, gasoline and Wal-Mart doodads is hardly a sign of economic prosperity; it's more an indication that the population still thinks the cheap money party will last forever.
Besides, most of the money people are spending is coming right out of their price-inflated homes in the form of home equity loans. Consumers think their homes are giant ATMs they can live in, and they mistakenly believe that housing prices will continue to rise forever. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 How will you live without electricity, heat or gasoline? Without a bountiful supply of food delivered to your local grocery store every single day? How will life be without all the stuff you buy at Wal-Mart, Kmart and other convenience stores? How will you wash your clothes? How will you keep yourself bathed? How will you keep yourself and your family fed? How will you protect your household and your community?
Lulled into a false sense of security
These are important questions, and again, most people are not even thinking about them because they think it can't happen here. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Whitless and his mechanic know the simple truth of the situation, that his new car needed to be given pure, unadulterated gasoline and oil that was appropriate for its particular needs. (Sound a little like any natural health food enthusiasts you might know?)
Hopefully, by now you are beginning to see the parallels between this parable and what is currently going on with regard to our bodies. We have, in this country and increasingly in many other developed countries, come to a place of denial about the role food plays in our health and what the real needs of our bodies are. |
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