Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 These new products are said to be more cost effective and environmentally friendly than those based on petroleum, although it would be interesting to explore precisely how much petroleum it takes to grow and process commercial soybeans.
GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT
The possibilities for recycled soy seem endless. Biodegradable soy plastics may soon be recycled into animal feeds. And Nabil Said, Ph.D., Director of Research and Development at Insta-Pro, a processing technology company, reports that a "value added" product made of animal waste and soy protein has been transformed into an animal chow. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One of the reasons that we're so focused on cleaning products made with vegetables instead of petroleum is that people don't think that when they clean their homes with natural cleaners like Seventh Generation, they're actually helping to reduce our dependence upon petroleum.
Mike: It's a very good point. We really have to think about all the factors that come into play with these products. One of the main questions I'm often asked about the Seventh Generation product line is, "How do they make them so effective if the ingredients aren't these harsh chemicals? |
Stacy Malkan
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 The standard requires natural ingredients with a limited list of allowable synthetics; it rejects synthetic fragrances, dyes and petroleum products, as well as the commonly used preservative parabens. "If you don't get BDIH, don't even think about going to market in Europe" with a natural product, said Jennifer Barckley, public relations manager of Weleda North America. The Swiss-based company is the largest user of organic rose oil in the world, and the company meets its large demand for organic ingredients through fair-trade projects with farmers in several countries. |
Andreas Moritz
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 To extend the oil's shelf life, create a clear color and remove its natural scent, it is bathed in a petroleum solvent, then "degummed" or placed in hot water and swirled at a high speed to separate out various substances. To further refine the oil, it is mixed with an alkali such as lye or caustic soda; then it is agitated, heated again, bleached, hydrogenated to stabilize it and finally deodorized. To increase shelf-life further, manufacturers add preservatives and other food additives. |
Devra Davis
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 The American petroleum Institute today (as we will see in Chapter 12) takes a radically different position on benzene, actively working to fund research that it expects will overturn national standards in many countries.
In 1949 a report in Scientific American by Groff Conklin featured a graphic display of "carcinogens known to be present in human environment."27 Asbestos was described, along with solar and ionizing radiation, chromates, tar, synthetic dyes and arsenic, as causing cancer by physically damaging the body or chemically inducing malignant growth. |
Stacy Malkan
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| PAHs may be found in petrolatum, also called petroleum jelly. The contaminant 1,3-butadiene is a potential impurity in butane (also called n-butane), a propellant used in aerosol personal care products." An easier way to avoid harmful contaminants is to use Skin Deep's advanced search function to locate products that do not contain known impurities.12
Get a Whiff of This
From Britney Spears' Fantasy to JLo's Glow, the sleek bottles promise love, wealth and celebrity appeal. |
Devra Davis
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| Throughout the 1980s, for instance, the National Cancer Institute's advisory board was chaired by Armand Hammer, the Chief Executive Officer of Occidental petroleum. While he served as a senior adviser to the NCI, Hammer's firm produced more than 100 billion tons of toxic chemicals, including those that created the superfund toxic waste site at Love Canal and led to the contamination of lush Mississippi River delta towns in Calcacieu Parish. Similar conflicts continue today.
Other global firms have been leaders in the war on cancer. Industrial Chemicals Inc. is a vast corporation. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 It is also controlled by the petroleum industry, which I will get into later in another book. The bottom line here, though, is these three industries, petroleum, which is big oil, fast food, and pharmaceuticals are pretty much all working together. They all feed off one another; what's good for one is virtually good for all. So go back, read Chapter 6 again, and start doing all the things that I recommend and you will start feeling better than ever before.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL CRITICAL OF "NATURAL CURES" BOOK ARRESTED FOR CRACK COCAINE POSSESSION! |
David R. Montgomery
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 Estimates for when petroleum production will peak range from before 2020 to about 2040. Since such estimates do not include political or environmental constraints, some experts believe that the peak in world oil production is already at hand. Indeed, world demand just rose above world supply for the first time. Exactly when we run out will depend on the political evolution of the Middle East, but regardless of the details oil production is projected to drop to less than 10 percent of cutrent production by the end of the century. At present, agriculture consumes 30 percent of our oil use. |
| More ominously, the green revolution's new seeds increased third-world dependence on fertilizers and petroleum. In India agricultural output per ton of fertilizer fell by two-thirds while fertilizer use increased sixfold. In West Java a two-thirds jump in outlays for fertilizer and pesticides swallowed up profits from the resulting one-quarter increase in crop yields in the 1980s. Across Asia fertilizer use grew three to forty times faster than rice yields. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Of course, this is information that the petroleum industry doesn't want people to know. That's why most people find this to be a complete shock. They say, "What? I don't need to change my oil? I just need to clean it?" The petroleum industry wants to keep selling you more oil. Now, there are two problems with that. First, it's just basically dishonest, when in reality you don't need to change your oil; you just need to clean it. |
Mark Lynas
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 Pretty much the entire world has now been geologically surveyed, so the chances of petroleum explorers having missed a formation like Ghawar somewhere else are negligible. With current reserves being depleted without replacement by new reserves, the 'peak oil' crowd would indeed seem to be onto something. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Similarly, Clair Patterson waged a career-long campaign against the petroleum industry and other corporate and even government interests to prove that lead is toxic to humans. His unrelenting efforts finally resulted in the banning of lead from gasoline, paint, and other consumer products and to stricter standards for airborne lead levels.33 Physicist George Zweig, who in 1964 was one of the first theorists to propose the reality of quarks—which have since been verified as the most fundamental of all subatomic particles? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| One of the reasons that we're so focused on cleaning products made with vegetables instead of petroleum is that people don't think that when they clean their homes with natural cleaners like Seventh Generation, they're actually helping to reduce our dependence upon petroleum.
Mike: It's a very good point. We really have to think about all the factors that come into play with these products. One of the main questions I'm often asked about the Seventh Generation product line is, "How do they make them so effective if the ingredients aren't these harsh chemicals? |
Stacy Malkan
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| One ingredient, petroleum distillates in my Cover Girl Marathon Waterproof Mascara, is banned in the European Union.
• 17 applications of penetration enhancers, which can draw the other chemicals more deeply into my body.
• 15 doses of chemicals that persist in the body or accumulate up the food chain.
• 15 products with fragrance — an unspecified mix of chemicals likely to contain phthalates and allergens.
• Less than half the ingredients in my products have been assessed for safety.
My head is spinning. I feel like Alice who fell down the rabbit hole. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 In 2004, Ethyl Corporation restructured. Its petroleum additives operations, including those involving both MMT and the old standby tetraethyl lead, were transformed into Afton Chemical. Afton and the remaining parts of Ethyl Corporation were subsumed under the name NewMarket Corporation. The state-of-the-art Web site for Afton, with a streaming video option, is headed with the new logo "A Passion for Solutions. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 It should not be used with condoms or a diaphragm since petroleum jelly degrades latex.
Albolene is certainly cost-effective. Although it is solid in its container, a small amount applied to the skin soon liquefies and becomes slippery. One drawback, though, is the mineral oil and petrolatum base. These petroleum products will destroy latex, so they must not be used with barrier contraceptives such as condoms or a diaphragm. (The postmenopausal woman may not need to worry about contraception, but many perimenopausal women still need to be vigilant. |
David Steinman
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 BP, one of the world's major petroleum companies, achieved its carbon-neutral target eight years early, reducing emissions 10 percent worldwide below the company's 1990 levels, and all of this happened at no net cost.
DuPont, the chemical manufacturer, has reduced emissions worldwide by 45 percent and improved energy efficiency by 15 percent over 1990 levels. It now uses renewables for 10 percent of its global energy use. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Petrolatum: Also known as petroleum jelly, this mineral oil derivative is used for its emollient properties in cosmetics. It has no nutrient value for the skin and can interfere with the body's own natural moisturizing mechanism, leading to dryness and chapping. It often creates the very conditions it claims to alleviate. Manufacturers use petrolatum because it is unbelievably cheap.
Propylene glycol: Ideally this is a vegetable glycerin mixed with grain alcohol, both of which are natural. Usually it is a synthetic petrochemical mix used as a humectant. |
David Steinman
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| The company has come out with a line of Raid bug killers that uses plant chemicals from clove and other sources for their active ingredients, although it still contains some petroleum distillates. These are certainly probably safer than the usual home and garden products containing petrochemical pesticides.
Sun & Earth, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, experienced
"major gains in grocery distribution" in 2003, and Kroger recently ordered its product for 2,500 stores. Along with Safeway and Albertson's, Sun & Earth has now been brought in 7,500 new stores. |
| In terms of greenhouse gases, the corn plant produces only 62 kilograms compared with 111 kilograms for the petroleum plastics plant per a thousand bottles, according to a report in the March 28, 2005, issue of Forbes?1 Carbon-neutral efficiency engenders lower costs. Put another way, take those same thousand bottles and compare the raw materials used in producing them from either oil or corn. Since 1975, assume the real cost for oil-based raw materials has gone from under $30 to over $40 (as of spring 2005 before Katrina and Rita). |
| Willie Nelson Biodiesel
"Put a B20 biodiesel blend in your tank and hit the road again with a clean burning, renewable fuel that is grown right here in America" says the Web site for Willie Nelson Biodiesel 49 Part of the little answers that amount to one big answer to our dependency on Middle Eastern oil, Willie Nelson has lent his prestige and fame to helping American overcome its petroleum addiction.
The Biodiesel Venture GP, LLC partnership was established in December 2004. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 Aveloz is called "petroleum plant" because it produces a hydrocarbon substance very much like gasoline. This plant is being studied by Petrobas, the national petroleum company in Brazil. It is thought that the hydrocarbon produced by the plant could be used directly in existing gasoline refineries; estimates of ten to fifty barrels of oil per acre of cultivated aveloz with cost estimates of $3-10 per barrel have been postulated.1
TRIBAL In Africa, aveloz is regarded as an insect repellant. |
Peter Radetsky
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 In particular, troops were exposed to:
• petroleum. Besides the use of petroleum for fuel, petroleum (kerosene, diesel, and leaded gasoline) was used for heating, and petroleum products including diesel fuels were used to keep down sand and dust. And beginning in late February of r99r, military personnel in Kuwait and eastern Saudi Arabia were exposed to oil-well fires.
• Sand and dust. Respiratory problems were reported in almost one-third of those who served in the Gulf. Ultra-fine sand embedded in the lungs might be the reason why. Pesticides. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 In 2005, for example, the Chinese National petroleum Corporation voluntarily withdrew its bid for energy company Unocal at the request of the White House following a public outcry. Several months later, a hullabaloo erupted over government-owned Dubai World's bid to acquire the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, which held contracts to manage six U.S.-based port facilities. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| The creamy white filling is made mostly from partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and/or beef fat; polysorbate 60 is added to it, which is a gooey substance derived from corn, palm oil, and petroleum that helps replace cream and eggs at a fraction of the cost. Cellulose gum gives the filling a smooth, slippery feel. To get that vanilla flavor, they create it artificially in petrochemical plants. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 Just as refineries send trucks filled with petroleum to factories to be turned into everything from plastic to petroleum jelly, your liver sends particles containing cholesterol into your bloodstream for your cells to use.
Imagine what would happen if a refinery flooded the roads with tankers, sending out far more supply than was needed. Day after day,
Is It My Genes?
Rick was 45 when he came to our office looking for help. He was not terribly optimistic that a diet change could really help him. His father had had diabetes and heart disease, and his own cholesterol had been high for years. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| It was the effective marketing of novel agrochemical products created through technological innovations in petroleum by-products.
One does not have to delve into the archives of obscure trade journals to trace these changes. Past question-and-answet columns in JAMA reveal sufficient indications of creosote's emerging competition. |
| Butter explains, "This last bituminous substance, which is a compound of Asphaltum and petroleum, probably from its very offensive smell, has been accused of injuring the health of the labourers, and of proving an indirect cause of this disease. But again it is unfortunate for such surmises, that the victims of death had seldom worked immediately within range of its odour."
To underscore his point, Dr. Butter also inrerviewed the workers who prepared mineral tar at the dockyard, experiencing on his own the effect of its inhalation. |
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