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He's approaching the end of the run, makes his way between the barrels that are set up there.
The problem with bombs and pickle barrels is not getting the bomb inside the pickle barrel, it's knowing how to find the pickle barrel.
But I interviewed one of the women, who had been bitten on the breast by one of these dogs, and the ferocity and strength of her was incredible, and she's out right now in another resistance camp, the same resistance camp I'm part of, fighting Line 3, another pipeline project in my people's homelands, wanting 900,000 barrels of tar sands per day through the headwaters of the Mississippi to the shore of Lake Superior and through all the Treaty territories along the way.
The tar sands consume more water than any other oil process, three to five barrels of water are taken, polluted and then returned into tailings ponds, the largest toxic impoundments on the planet.
So here you are, that the cost of all this to the world is 89 million barrels of oil, give or take a few barrels, every day.
And the United States uses about 20 million barrels a day, which is about 25 percent of all the oil used everyday in the world.
When you look at the biggest user and the second largest user, we use 20 million barrels and the Chinese use 10.
How does that translate to barrels of oil equivalent?
And they claim they have 250 billion barrels of oil, which I do not believe.
I think it's probably 175 billion barrels.
Saving or displacing barrels for 25 bucks rather than buying them for over a hundred, adds up to a $4 trillion net saving counting all the hidden costs at zero.
And the most biofuel we might need, just three million barrels a day, can be made two-thirds from waste without displacing any cropland and without harming soil or climate.
On the top line, this is the BP oil spill: billions of barrels of oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico.
They mix dye in these big barrels, and they submerge the silk into the liquid up to their elbows, but the dye is toxic.
We put out the orange barrels, and people just materialized immediately into the street.
Africa produces 10 million barrels a day of oil now.
The year we lost our inhibition and moved with courageous abandon was also the year we stared down barrels, sang of cranes in skies, ducked and parried, caught gold in hijab, collected death threats, knew ourselves as patriots, said, "We're 35 now, time we settled down and found a running mate," made road maps for infant joy, shamed nothing but fear, called ourselves fat and meant, of course, impeccable.
Today, we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day.
Because of irregularities in the seafloor and the swell itself, few barrels last as long as the legendary 27-second ride off the coast of Namibia.
But they happened to be wild dogs living there, and it was right by the water, so there were swans and ducks swimming around and trees growing everywhere and bees nesting in the sugar barrels.
Still life on a rooftop, dead trees in barrels, a bench broken, dogs, excrement, sky.
Now, when you go through a similar analysis for every way we use oil, including buildings, industry, feedstocks and so on, you find that of the 28 million barrels a day the government says we will need in 2025, well, about eight of that can be removed by efficiency by then, with another seven still being saved as the vehicle stocks turn over, at an average cost of only 12 bucks a barrel, instead of 26 for buying the oil.
That is another 25 million barrels a day.
From the photosynthetic growth, it would take 500 years of that growth to produce what we use, the 30 billion barrels we use per year.
For every four barrels of oil that we consume, we only discover one.
So, three million barrels a day.
This is possibly the worst of the cockney gangster genre that has blighted the British film industry since Mockney Guy Ritchie unleashed Lock stock and two badly acted barrels.
To paraphrase Roger Ebert, this doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel, nor deserve mention in the same sentence as barrels.
The film also contains what I consider way over-the-top Trotskyite or Anarchist fantasies and wet-dreams, what with a mysterious group of young men training to fire machine guns at the bourgeoisie in between playing Scott Walker's rather fascinating music in a band which has its recording sessions in an abandoned warehouse filled with squatters and fires burning in old steel barrels.
The movie is made in a style that resembles Lock, stock and two smoking barrels, with lot's of subplots, fancy camerawork, cool music and that great tongue-in-cheek Aussie type of humor you'll find nowhere else.
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