"Pump" - A good documentary how the oil industry is monopolizing automotive fuels

**oj88** · September 6th, 2015 08:00 AM

I watched this last night on Netflix, but found out just a while ago that it's also available on Youtube: Pump (2015) - USA ( Documentary ) - YouTube

It's a documentary about how the oil cartels are monopolizing crude oil as fuel. And through propaganda and legislations, kept Ethanol and Methanol mostly out of the pumping stations. It dates back to before the turn of the century with the industrialist, Rockefeller.

It also documents how Brazil went against the monopoly and won.

So if you have nothing better to do, watch it.... It's an eye-opener.

**sirkosero** · September 6th, 2015 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by oj88

I watched this last night on Netflix, but found out just a while ago that it's also available on Youtube: Pump (2015) - USA ( Documentary ) - YouTube

It's a documentary about how the oil cartels are monopolizing crude oil as fuel. And through propaganda and legislations, kept Ethanol and Methanol mostly out of the pumping stations. It dates back to before the turn of the century with the industrialist, Rockefeller.

It also documents how Brazil went against the monopoly and won.

So if you have nothing better to do, watch it.... It's an eye-opener.

nothing new there. they even have their own economic model ,Oligopoly.

oil companies work hard to lobby against alternative fuels.

**StockEngine** · September 6th, 2015 09:06 AM

Imagine US oil export ban being lifted.

Hehehe

**machine.pistol** · September 6th, 2015 09:56 AM

Sounds like what the soybean oil cartel in the U.S. did to the coconut oil industry in the Philippines in the 80s and 90s. Soybean is the primary source of cooking oil in the U.S. And U.S. prefer soybean because it can be grown in an industrial scale just like corn. They promoted the idea that coconut oil is bad for the health. Thus, demand for coconut oil plunged and therefore prices also plunged. That's what caused the closure of the Ludo and Luym plant in Cebu, then the biggest in Asia.

The problem was exacerbated when the government intensified its anti-deforestation campaign and so people shifted to coco lumber. That almost killed coconut farming.here. While it's making a resurgence, it could be too late now that our neighboring countries are deep into palm oil production.

**dr. d** · September 6th, 2015 11:11 AM

"the men who made america".
several key men who painted america as it looks like, today.
according to the series, these men might look stellar and legendary today.. but there was nothing stellar about how they conducted business then.
.. devoid of business decency and morality.. almost criminal.. but totally forward-thinking!
back then, the only way to climb out of the murk of average-ism, was to step on the living and dead bodies of their competitors.
idol!

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"the men who made america".
several key men who painted america as it looks like, today.
according to the series, these men might look stellar and legendary today.. but there was nothing stellar about how they conducted business then.
.. devoid of business decency and morality.. almost criminal.. but totally forward-thinking!
back then, the only way to climb out of the murk of average-ism, was to step on the living and dead bodies of their competitors.
idol!

**jut703** · September 6th, 2015 01:24 PM

Henry Sy will also go down the same way. The unfair practice of permanently contractual workers will be overshadowed by the achievements of SM and its subsidiaries and its contributions to the PH economy.

Paraphrasing a line from The Social Network, "You don't get to a billion pesos without making a few enemies".