El Porto Beach boasts world-famous waves, crisp sunshine, plus some of the nicest homes in California. Just south of LA, it is a picturesque place— that is, as long as you don’t look north.

In the sea, there is an ominous, perfectly still silhouette of an oil tanker floating in the distance, belching thick smoke that fills up the skies like a mushroom cloud.

Looking North, you see the eye sore that is the Chevron Oil refinery, one of the oldest, grungiest in the USA, always churning, cogs turning. The smell is engulfing. A “shit pipe” extends from the refinery deep into the ocean, leaking rainbows of sludge into the water each day. Local surfers love the “shit pipe” because of the way it spawns sweet A-frame waves (if you can withstand the smell). But, for everyone else, this oil business is a shit stain on what otherwise would be an incredibly beautiful place.

But it’s not the oil’s fault. The oil did not enslave itself. The humans enslaved the oil. We pulled it from its home, use it for its labor, and scattered it into the water and into the atmosphere, dirtying up the world. It is time we let it go free.

If you didn’t know, oil is not a homogenous substance, in the same way that humans flowing down a busy sidewalk are not a lifeless fluid, although from a distance it sometimes looks that way. Oil is made up of tiny creatures with arms and legs, who we force into labor.

When we burn gas in our engines, every little oil creature in our gas tank is put through excruciating labor until it burns up and dies.

When we turn on our cars, we commit murder.

When we buy into the oil industrial complex, we commit genocide.

So I proclaim now: Set the oil creatures free. Stop “using oil”.

But how? After generations of oil enslavement, the culture of oil has disappeared. Modern day oil does not remember where it came from. Oils do not remember how their ancestors managed to sustain life under ground. We humans have erased their ability to sustain themselves. We have erased a petrol civilization.

So what are we to do? We cannot enslave the oil any longer for the measly cause that is ground transportations and lamps. We must set it free. But, as the destroyers of Oil civilizations, we are obligated to lend a helping hand to the Oles as they learn to fend for themselves again.

I propose we allow them to live freely in the oil tankers. I propose that, as reparations for their mortal crimes, “oil companies” such as Chevron and others, be forced to transform their oil tankers into luxury cruise ships on which humans serve the oil. I propose that we feed the oil whatever it asks for. I propose that we create schools for the oil, so that it may learn to sustain itself. I propose that we allow the oil freedom but that we also give them enough help to have a fighting chance in the free world.

It’s only sensible. It is only fair. Although not easy, it is the right thing to do.

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