Nigeria is the 6th largest supplier of oil to the United States. The U.S. people consume 500,000 barrels of oil a day from Nigeria.
When U.S. companies found oil in Nigeria, they told the Nigerian people how much better life was going to be for them with the millions of dollars flowing into their country from the sale of oil.
This was an outright lie to the Nigerian people so that oil companies could profit. What most Americans are kept in the dark about is how their consumption of oil is killing the people of Nigeria.
Oil companies have known for years what is happening in Nigeria and yet they still spend tens of millions of dollars a year buying Congressmen and having them prevent solar power development in the United States.
The video you are about to see shows how the oil trade in Nigeria has enriched politicians both in the U.S. and Nigeria, as well as the big oil companies, while bringing suffering to ordinary people.
Gangs have formed in a kind of mini-civil war for who should control the oil.American oil workers and oil executives are being favored over the people of Nigeria. The government is destroying Nigerian villages to make room for American housing.
A pastor is powerless as his church is demolished because of the oil trade. He says, "The oil boom has become the oil doom."
As the big oil companies demolish a woman's home, she clutches her children and cries, "I need help! Someone please help!"
The Limbaugh Republicans who believe that all business is benevolent and all governments bad need to go back to school and learn about the Nigerian oil trade.
The goal of business is to increase profits. If people need to lose their homes, then so be it. What is important is to increase profits. In some aspects, the big Health Insurance companies in the U.S. are a good lesson of what happens with the unchecked pursuit of profit. How many people in America, like people in Nigeria, have been killed in the pursuit of profit? How many Americans have died because their coverage was denied? How many people who work in fast food or the restaurant business work without health insurance of any kind? How many hard working adults who play by all the rules are doomed to poverty because they are being charged $800, even a $1,000 or more a month for health insurance for a relatively healthy family of three?
We now see what America has become after 8 years of Republican control in which business was allowed to reign free with little, if any, governmental oversight.
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