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"Navy warships blockaded Buenos Aires and threatened to blow up the oil refineries on the Rio Plata. A cruiser began shelling the docks on September 18, 1955. General Pedro Aramburu declared himself against the regime in the Northeast. General Lonardi swept into Buenos Aires itself on the 23rd, greeted by cheering crowds. Peron was finally gone, but when he left office he left, in the words of Argentine economist Raul Prebisch, a "crisis of unparalleled gravity." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Obviously, coal power plants and oil refineries are not sustainable businesses, but because it has been designed along industrial ecological lines, Kalundborg as a whole is more sustainable than it might otherwise be. Industrial ecology mitigates the bad effects of today's industry: it may well supercharge tomorrow's, as Hydrogen-producing Algae Many eco-futurists promote hydrogen as a cleaner replacement for fossil fuel. But making hydrogen currently takes a lot of energy, or requires using fossil fuel." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The doctors will never be able to tell me if environmental factors — pollution from the RESCO incinerator in nearby Saugus, the black smokestacks of the Salem oil refineries or the chemical exposures in my childhood home — contributed to my health issues. The way I see it, even the smokestacks aren't separate from the Healing Garden Mintherapy lotion and its 4.1 toxicity score — coming as it does from oil-derived petrochemicals, and ending up as it often does (plastic case and all) burning up in waste incinerators located near working-class communities like Lynn." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"American companies controlled 80 to 100 percent of Cuba's utilities, mines, cattle ranches, and oil refineries, 40 percent of the sugar industry, and 50 percent of the public railways. Fidel Castro had spent time in prison after he led an unsuccessful attack in 1953 on an army barracks in Santiago. Out of prison, he went to Mexico, met Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara, and returned in 1956 to Cuba." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) "Rockefeller started as a bookkeeper in Cleveland, became a merchant, accumulated money, and decided that, in the new industry of oil, who controlled the oil refineries controlled the industry. He bought his first oil refinery in 1862, and by 1870 set up Standard Oil Company of Ohio, made secret agreements with railroads to ship his oil with them if they gave him rebates—discounts—on their prices, and thus drove competitors out of business. One independent refiner said: "If we did not sell out. ... we would be crushed out. . . ." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) "The strikers now multiplied, joined by young boys and men from the mills and factories (Pittsburgh had 33 iron mills, 73 glass factories, 29 oil refineries, 158 coal mines). The freight trains stopped moving out of the city. The Trainman's Union had not organized this, but it moved to take hold, called a meeting, invited "all workingmen to make common cause with their brethren on the railroad." Railroad and local officials decided that the Pittsburgh militia would not kill their fellow townsmen, and urged that Philadelphia troops be called in. By now two thousand cars were idle in Pittsburgh." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"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." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"More crows have died, for example, near oil refineries or contact with MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether) than crows in areas that are less polluted.134 Other studies suggest high ozone levels are correlated with increased viral deaths in crows.134 It is known that high ozone levels can damage the brain, lungs and immune system. If these observations are validated this would have great implications in humans because it suggests that the development of West Nile encephalitis is indirectly related to toxic environmental chemical exposures, and not simply contact with an infected mosquito." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

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