BLOOD 4 OIL

 	In 1973, JM Chevalier, in his book “The new Petrol Game” pointed 2000 as 
	the year that the world oil reserves would end. The world would have, then,
 	to prepare itself, to be less dependent of this matter. This announcement 
	of the end of petrol not only did not happen, as oil is still the first matter
 	and motive of world conflict. The world still goes round the control of the 
	oil graves, price of the oil barrel, etc. 

 	The benefits that can be taken from oil is so important and petrol is a matter 
	in such a way vital for the industrial economies that the history of petrol 
	is intimately connected to the political and economical domination of the great
 	powers and the movements of national independency. The appropriation of petrol 
	by the industrialized countries is frequently accompanied by a political action.
 	The great powers aim to place and keep on the producer countries regimes that 
	are tolerant, to whom they give credit and weapons in exchange of their passivity.
  	(JMC) 

 	We could, very recently, observe another of these manoeuvres … 

 	Of the several military operations mentioned  (operations realized by the USA ),
 	the one I think is the most serious one is  Iraq ’s. Once more it has nothing 
	to do with international terrorism. The politic in relation to  Iraq is also a 
	kind of continuation, but it can change. You may considerer this to be an 
	opportunity to re-establish control over  Iraq , which is extremely important.
 	Iraq has the second biggest oil reserves in the world, many of them under 
	explored or not even being explored (Iraqe –Noam Chomsky) 

 	France and Russia had, until the beginning of the war, the control of the 
	iraquian oil … let us remember the position of these countries in relation to
 	this supposed war against terrorism … 

 	What other stories tells petrol? - That I remind you that is an industry of 
	multiple products, for example gasoline, that are part of our everyday life. 

 	BLOOD 4 OIL makes a journey, intuitive and visual to the world of petrol and its 
	influence in our worlds. 

Salão Olímpico - Porto - 2004

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