Terror-Free Oil Initiative
- Terror-Free Oil Initiative
The Terror-Free Oil Initiative is a group based in Coral Springs, Florida, dedicated to encouraging Americans to buy only gasoline that originated in countries that do not export or finance terrorism[cite news|publisher=Le Soleil|date=2007-01-23|title=Du pétrole sans terreur dans le Nebraska] or are otherwise unfriendly towards the United States. [cite web |url=http://www.terrorfreeoil.com/about.php | title = About TFO ] ]It educates the public by promoting those companies that acquire their crude oil supply from nations outside the Middle East and by exposing those companies that do not.[cite web| url =http://www.newsnet5.com/money/10815377/detail.html ]
title = Gas Station To Offer 'Terror-Free' Oil|publisher=newsnet5.com|date=2007-01-22] TFOI is also looking into creating a healthy debate concerning alternate methods of fuel production and consumption.
Terror-Free Oil opened the first "terror free" gas station in Omaha, Nebraska, in January 2007.
Criticism of Terror-Free Oil has included accusations of Islamophobia. [url=http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6551.shtml ]
TFO spokesman Joe Kaufman is also founder of a group called Americans Against Hate, a conservative civil rights organization and terrorism watchdog group. [ [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=1587 FrontPage Magazine ] ] Kaufman is a prominent critic of the Islamic advocacy organization Council on American-Islamic Relations.
External links
* [http://www.terrorfreeoil.com Official website]
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