Pressure cooked dead zooplankton
and algae was initially sold to Americans
as medicinal snake oil. Several hundred
thousand bottles were consumed before
it’s energy usage proved more marketable.
Meanwhile in the town of Baku, Azerbijan,
North of Iran, villagers could dig a hole
in the ground, dropp in a live coal and start a fire.
Historically, trillions and trillions of gallons
of this lucrative pond scum has bubbled
up to the surface worldwide, naturally consumed
by hungry bacteria. One hundred fifty billion
is now spent annually to locate the remaining
desolate pools. America’s pipelines,161,000 miles
of arteries, half the distance to the moon await.

Cheryl Lynn Moyer Peele

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