doodah wrote:
3. OIL (PETROLEUM) - the most poisonous substance on this planet. Everything made from petroleum is either poisonous or harmful in some way to Native Earth Life: pesticides, paint, glue, plastics, oils, lubricants, "petro-chemicals," solvents, household poisons, toothpaste, ad infinitum.
4. OIL (PETROLEUM) is used to make, either directly, or indirectly in some process, almost every item we can buy in the stores.
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Thought I'd share my own use of oil as an addition to the above list of possible uses which most have not considered.
I'm a visual artist who paints with used motor oil. Which amounts to my own personal conversion of petroleum, in its industrial waste state, into a tool for visual thought and experience.
http://www.davidmacaluso.com
yours,
d.