HISTORY OF FOIL
By Stan Cotton Founder, Foreign Oil Independence League
Following 911, and with America at heart, I gave thought about what could I do. One night I sprang out of bed like a man with a leg cramp. "Why not start an Oil Independence League."O.I.L. But oil in itself wasn't the problem. The problem is achieving independence from foreign oil. Put Foreign in front of Oil Independence League and you have F.O.I.L.
F.O.I.L could well be the vehicle to be behind a consumer push to find alternative energy resources and shut down foreign oil spigots. But how would I reach the people with sufficient conviction to rally them to fight foreign oil and high gas prices.
I knew that the original FOIL patriotic poster with the camels on the oil drums, what we needed, reactionary propaganda.
Propaganda can be good. In this case, it's Cher in "Moonstruck," slapping Nicholas Cage in the face and saying, "Snap out of it."
Foreign Oil Independence is a travesty.
It is an outrage! Look at the poster. Look at the FOIL poster series. If your outrage is directed at the silly camels on the oil drums, or the Twin Towers and not this nation's abject, short-sighted and criminal neglect of clean, renewable energy funding, then you're sillier than the politicians that won't back alternative energy issues.
The Foreign Oil Independence League (joinfoil.org) a for-profit group is looking to partner with public-spirited or individuals to push for increased use of the alternative fuel. FOIL's mission is to raise citizen awareness and subsequently fuel a true entrepreneurial enterprise that will reach every corner of this nation.
FOIL's mission is to raise the bar and fuel a true entrepreneurial enterprise that will reach the masses without being stuffy about it.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WITH COURAGE AND A FEW BUCKS TO SPARE TO PITCH IN.
We need free thinking patriotic souls.
If any event in American history could raise citizens' ire to the point of turning ploughshares into swords, it is this one.
The solution is in plain sight. Average citizens have to learn whose side politicians are on and that boosting domestic oil production brings us closer to foreign oil independence and more good paying U.S. jobs.
Shown below. The first anti-terrorist billboard in the U.S. Sept. 2002
