Green Films: The Oil Factor

The Oil Factor  ****/5

Free Will Productions, Gerard Ungerman, Audrey Brohy

Yes, four stars, because it offers important information we rarely see exposed!  Unfortunately for The Oil Factor, it had a seemingly small budget so it did not get the exposure it truly needed. 

This film raises many concerning issues about the intentions of our government to take control of foreign oil.  The oil is precious because our entire way of life is dependent on the oil we import into this country.  Everything we do, we eat, we, or consume is somehow directly, or indirectly tied to oil. 

I get up in the morning in a bed that has sheets shipped in from China.  I drink my orange juice from fruit that traveled all the way from Florida, in a carton that was made from petrochemicals that include oil.  I then watch the news on a television made from oil, I get dressed in clothes made from an entirely different continent, which contain dyes made from oil.  At the end of it all, I go to work in a car fueled by oil and so on.

America seems to be enslaved by an addiction to oil.  We accept it because it seems like there is nothing we can do about it.  Why do we feel entrapped?  Maybe it is because of the government's intentions to keep us addicted for profits.  The concept sounds frightening, but this film presents the information we should take a closer look at.  There are a couple of concerning topics that caught my attention:

• Halliburton is Cheney’s old company which he still has financial ties to.  Halliburton is responsible for specializing in building oil infrastructures and military bases world-wide.  The biggest contract to re-build Iraq (decisions made by Bush’s administration which includes Vice President Cheney), went to Cheney’s company, Halliburton.Sounds like favoritism.  BUT THEN Halliburton begins the rebuilding process and charges Iraq to pay us back in oil revenues.  Therefore, we get the controlled operations of Iraq’s oil.Sounds like greed.

Sounds like favoritism 

• Then, the first companies that were allowed to buy the oil after rebuilding took place was Chevron – which Condoleezza Rice was the former board member of.  Again, there seems to be calculated plan going on here, where the Bush Administration formulated these moves, and specifically chose companies that would benefit those who conducted the plan. 

Let me be clear that when I say “Bush Administration,” I mean people like Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice etc.  Bush was mostly a talking head for the people behind the invasion plan.    

• I am led to conclude that the US planned the war in Iraq to try and take privatization control of Iraq’s oil.  That is not to say that the US planned the attacks of 9/11, but it is more likely to say that the US used the attacks of 9/11 as an opportunity to invade Iraq.

• The UN denied the US the approval to invade Iraq, but without consent or international approval, the US went ahead and bombed anyway.                    

I could go on, but this is far too long for a blog entry. 

You can see the film here

For more information and the opportunity to stream the full-length film, visit this website:  www.freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmID=193