Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...image of environmentalists as radicals has craftily been painted by powerful special-interest groups, usually large oil and mining companies, members of which manipulate our political system to influence Congress and perpetuate the myth that they are doing good for America. Large companies such as Exxon, Mobil and Shell pour money into think tanks with positive sounding names such as Partners for Affordable Energy so that their stealth attack on Mother Nature can continue...
...Porter, Gibson really takes the suffering-for-your-art mantra to a new level, kind of like the Samaritan who lies down on the oil slick so you can walk on him to get over the puddle. With each new movie, he ups the ante, symbolically slathering more mustard on the dog so that it becomes more about how much torment he can take rather than about the movie itself. The evolution of this Method throughout his career shoves subtlety where it don't shine. Mad Max meets Martin Riggs meets Braveheart equals Porter, the con man with a heart...
...laundry room wall. A quarter full, it offers three types of condoms: Trojan lubricated with spermicide, Trojan lubricated without spermicide and LifeStyles non-lubricated. The extensive instructions include details and pictures about condom use, as well as a section of "Tips for Success," which advises that "Oil rots rubber," and condoms should not be stored in one's wallet...
Blind submission to the doctrine of finding the cheapest oil possible has led, quite directly, to the auto industry's unfortunate adherence to the traditional internal combustion engine even in an era when major auto makers are making significant progress in higher efficiency automobiles...
...energy policy has been governed largely by free market forces which have guided us in a shortsighted and amoral direction. We should decrease the amount of oil we import, and try to import from nations with agreeable governments and fair labor laws. This would encourage foreign democratization, reduce our economic dependence on volatile nations and invigorate the U.S. oil industry. Increasing gasoline taxes--currently, our prices are far below those of other industrial nations--would prod the auto industry and consumers towards the nascent inevitable revolution of efficient vehicles. It's time for the US to abandon its dirty policies...