The Day The Oil Stopped Burning, Chapter 7: D.C. The World's Largest Arms Dealer

 

CHAPTER 7: D.C. The World’s largest Private Arms Dealer

 

 

"So what do we have so far"? Ron asked to the group gathered around the conference table at the EAG headquarters. Sitting at the table was, Ron, Laura, Pete Miller from the NSA, Art Dutton from the Secretary of Defense office, Doctors Chang, Watson, and Sam Markey. "I think there is some kind of major conspiracy going on that is directly related to the GECA" Laura started. "As you are all well aware there have been numerous efforts in the past to reconstitute any number of various fossil fuels for any number of various reasons. Some well meaning, some not, some large scale, some small, however none that have proven successful as far as we know. Now, all of these past efforts no matter how large the scale has never represented anything more than what we would call- rather isolated attempts ether by a rogue nation for military purposes or corporate interest for the purpose of profit. None of this being illegal, just hard to do and as such, hardly worth doing. Well, Gentlemen and Ladies, it would seem that from the pieces of evidence-that while coincidental and antidotal on their own- seen to add up to something on a much larger and substantially more sinister scale". "What the hell are you talking about here Doctor Jones" asked Pete Miller. Pete was a chief officer at the NSA and was the NSA lesion to the White House. "We don't have any such intel that I'm aware of". “Like I said" continued Dr. Jones” 

The clues are small and seemingly unrelated until you start to piece them together and develop a theory". "So this is strictly theoretical stuff we are talking about.....right? Asked Pete. "Right.... And frankly I hope it's wrong.....but at this point I don't think so". Ron jumped in at this point "Laura has just spent the past seventy two hours compiling, filtering, and piecing together every shred of information available from our own sources and co-oping with you guys (looking at Pete and Art) as well as the CIA, Turkish, and Israeli intelligence and the Chinese". Ron was absolutely correct, Laura had been piecing bits and pieces of data together and running hundreds of different programs, filters and algorithms trying to find common denominators and make sense of otherwise insignificant actions all over the world. Dr Laura Jones was quite simply the best at this sort of thing and had often assisted various Government security agencies, so when she suggested a conspiracy, it was not taken lightly. "So, let's hear your opinion" said Ron.

 

Well first, I believe that somebody has already developed a formula to reconfigure petroleum and refine it back into high grade combustible fuel. I'm talking gasoline, aviation fuel, you name it. I think that it is being scaled up and is being refined at secret locations all over the world. Second, I believe that there is an international conspiracy behind this that is much more far reaching than we can imagine. It's likely that entire developing nations are involved, and a number of international banking interests. Quite possibly a few radical religious groups and I'm guessing some higher ups in various governments and militaries of many developed countries including ours. I think that whoever this is, they have been secretly stock piling left over oil reserves, and fossil fuel powered machinery and military equipment for years. I also get the impression that they are gearing up reemployment of disserted oil extraction facilities along the east coast and central corridor of Africa".

 

In the last few years before the first visit from the eggheads, geological research had turned up vast and previously unknown reserves in the areas of Nigeria, Congo, and Somalia where there were already known reserves but the political climate and civil unrest had made further exploitation to risky. Increasing demand from the thirsty nations of Western Europe, the U.S. and China had finally overcome the risk factors and vast reserves all along the central corridor of Africa just below the equator and along the eastern coast from Somalia to South Africa. These reserves that dwarfed the Middle East reserves were just beginning to be exploited when the eggheads visit rendered them useless. The discovery of vast oil reserves in a particular country or region does not necessarily spell property for the indigenous  people as we have learned from the Middle East and other " oil rich" countries' the insuring political upheaval, the civil war and general unrest seemed to prove that this was no different. Africa, which was mostly a political mess and the tribal nature of African culture, made for a lot of competing interests for control over the new found treasure. 

 

When suddenly the new found treasure which everyone is fighting over is found to be useless the underlying animosity continues and conflict just intensifies rather than diminishes. The past sixteen years had done little to improve conditions in Africa. While desalination and irrigation had done much to alleviate wide spread famine, most attempted democratic central governments had failed to take hold and overall economic conditions had remained dismal for a majority of the population.

 

"Third, I believe that this conspiracy has malevolent intentions that are nothing short of an upset in the world’s balance of power. I also believe that the pending Global Energy Cooperation Act, which we believe every world power is in favor of, proposes a serious thorn in the side of this conspiracy, and I think that is why they are willing to take more overt action at this moment. If I'm right, they obviously would be highly motivated to see that the GECA dies a quick death, and they certainly possess the resources to eliminate any obstacle standing in the way of their objectives. In our case, that obstacle is Jack. He obviously stumbled onto something that was regarded by these guys as a serious impediment to their goals; enough to try and take him out. Doug was lucky enough to locate him just as a highly trained and equipped team of unidentified assets were about to take him and his friends out. Our guys had to fry three of them and two got away. The bottom line is that this conspiracy could easily reach way up into any of the cabinets. We could be talking about staff, advisors and even Senators and Members of Congress. We could be talking about Generals, Admirals, Assistant secretaries, and senior staff in the militaries. We could even be talking about the NSA, Department of Defense, CIA, Homeland Security, and the FBI...........any questions"?

 

"Ok this actually makes sense and your theory is plausible" said Art Dutton “but, other than your intuition, what kind of proof do you have that can help substantiate any of this"? "First of all somebody and I'm not talking amateurs here, tried to kill Jack Saffell. Now why in the world would somebody with professional assassins on the payroll want to kill an environmental lobbyist? And what has Jack been working on? Only the most significant, global changing, international cooperation treaty EVER! And what's the most important thing that this treaty will accomplish? Actually outlaw any type of CO2 emissions, and construct a mechanism to monitor and enforce it on a complete and global scale. Since every single person on earth will benefit from this treaty, and it will be the single biggest event since our first visit from the eggheads to actually save humanity from extinction, there would need to be a pretty compelling reason to try and fuck it up. And what could that reason possibly be but the usual lust for wealth and power.....on a huge scale! If this treaty goes through, and I'm right about this, someone will stand to lose gazillions". "Once again" said Art "I get it, but I'm still hearing speculation. Maybe Jack just pissed off the wrong group of people years ago, and this attempt to waist him has nothing to do with the GECA". "What else do you have" asked Ron. "I have had Fin over in Istanbul working on human migration trends over the past six years and she has come up with some things that stand with my theory that are otherwise inexplicable. Next, we have tracked fifty six different petroleum disposal sites and it looks like all have been stockpiling and shipping to hidden storage facilities in Somalia, Libya, and probably all over north, central and the west coast of Africa. A compilation of satellite data that I ran through a dozen different algorithms tends to show the same kind of thing happening with a bunch of machinery. I'm sure you guys realize that security involved in the storage, dismantling, and destruction of a whole butt load of military hardware and equipment has been sloppy at best. More like nonexistent. I don't blame then since everybody figured the stuff was unusable junk and why waist resources guarding junk, but I think we have located several storage sites and I'm guessing there are hundreds more." Plus, after comparing notes with my guys at Langley, it looks like some actions and movement by key assets could be explained by my theory".  

 

After 2016 when the eggheads granted humanity the gifts of various emissions free, renewable, energy technologies and a year later when fossil fuels became non combustible, a lot of the world's oil reserves just sat around in storage. Industry still had use for oil rather than burning it for energy and many of those uses were still viable even with the slight molecular changes made by the eggheads. Even with the making of plastics, non combustible solvents, waxes, and all the other uses of crude oil, it still only amounted to less than two percent of the total annual use. Considering that the world had ninety eight prevent more oil than it would ever need and that it tended to be otherwise nasty stuff (large oil spills were never fun) the eggheads gave humanity another gift; a chemical process to turn crude oil into a harmless benign liquid that could be absorbed into seawater or evaporated into the atmosphere. Thousands of facilities throughout the developed nations were set up to serve this purpose and the vast majority were of course privately held and operated. Everyone listening to Dr. Jones elaborate on her theory knew that if some motivated, well organized group wanted to amass billions and billions of barrels of oil and billions of tons of military machinery, it would have been relatively easy to do over the past ten years.

 

"Ok tell me about the suspicions migrations Dr. Hamerat is charting" Dr. Watson asked. "We have a recent move of over two million people into the area just north of the border of the new Turkish-Pakistani border". "So, that's not new, they have been moving south for a while since things turned sour in Russia". "No, this is different. That's why I got Fin working on it. Looks like the demographics are way younger; predominately male 17 to 25. We show the same kind of thing moving west to east in Dar for, south Sudan, Kenya, and Somalia". "So what do you think that means" asked Art. "Not sure, but that kind of movement with those demographics is usually a prelude to conflict, and if I were a conspiracy bent on shifting the balance of power and amassing vast wealth through selling weaponry, machinery and the fuel to power it. I would love to have a few large scale conflicts going on just to shake shit up and province the requisite distraction”.”Good point" said Ron. At this point Dr. Watson chinned in "we have all been feeding Laura data, and Sat. Image we studied, kind of backs this up. We don't have anything obvious and no change day to day, but if we track say, a two hundred day log, then we show possibly underground storage, refining facilities, warehouses, you name it. All in the same basic geographic locations Laura has alluded to. Oh and also west central Russia".

 

At just about the same time Art and Pete both asked "what's their objective" and "what's their plan of action". ""Start with thousands of F 35s and Abrams a1a tanks and you can get the picture. At bare minimum you become the world’s largest private arms dealer, at worse you start wars and take over small countries like dominos. I have no idea regarding potential game plans, but my opinion is that they have actually been sitting on the re-combustion formula for a while.....years maybe.... and planned to produce a mass quantity of fuel before exposing anything. Then along comes the Global Energy Cooperation Act Treaty and throws a big old humongous horsefly into their bowl of oatmeal". "You don't happen to have a reasonable strategy for proceeding on this do you" asked Pete Miller..... "And.....  What the fuck am I supposed to tell the President"? "No action plan Pete" said Ron "like Laura said, anybody could be involved......anybody! Could even be you two...or me, but then why would I have My team telling you this stuff....and I kind of doubt ether of you are involved because I've know you both for over thirty years and I trust my own intuition. But the NSA, CIA, Military, even administration staff are all suspect....... Basically the plan is for you two along with whatever key people you can trust, to come up with a plan. We found our boy, and that was our first concern. Oh, and Pete, I'll need you to cover us on that bit of handy work on Beaver Island, unless of course you want me to explain to the local authorities why guys were shooting at each other with sniper rifles and some got cooked with a shoulder launched sidewinder". “Yea", said Pete "I'll see what I can do". 

 

"I am convinced and I will defiantly implement an investigation, but if as you suggest, this thing has tentacles in our own Government, I will have to tread lightly and chose my allies carefully" said Pete. "I suggest you do the same Art. Who do you trust in the upper echelon of the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff"? "I got a few here and there that I'm pretty sure I can trust, how about you"? "Yea, same here. One thing for sure; I don't trust any of those PPPEP types or those fucking Party of Traditional American Values bastards. That bone head Santorum just about fucked over this whole country just because he was arrogant enough to believe his image of god had to be embraced by all of humanity. I still can't quite believe the hubris of a man that commands we believe in the writings of men with undeniable personal vested interest over thousands of years just because it is his Bible, and continues to desperately cling to his fable after the entire world actually witnesses a superior race of beings with undeniable proof that they created life on earth. I would not be completely surprised if some of those PTAV bastards are at the heart of this shit". "Yea, I agree that guy's a dip shit.... So Pete, how we'll do you know General Lukas"? "Meet with him twice a week, top notch guy, most pragmatic mind in there since Powell retired....why"? "I know him pretty well myself" said Art "we actually graduated West Point a year apart, and I agree with your assessment. I think I will head over to the Pentagon and have a little pow-wow with him". General Alfred Jacob Lukas was a five star general and current head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His friends knew him as A.J. and Pete, Art, and Ron all agreed that he was the least likely guy in the world to be corrupt. "The bottom line is that if A.J. is in on this shit....we are all fucked" was the way Ron had put it as they adjourned the meeting. "Art, take Sam with you when you brief AJ. He has been riding shotgun with Laura and might be able to fill in the blanks when AJ and his staff question you; if not, he can do the telepathy thing with Laura and she can connect the dots". "Good idea Ron, thanks. My assistant has already contacted his office; we are heading there right now.....Sam, you ready to roll"? Sam looked at Ron and Laura. "Go ahead, I'll connect everything we've got to your personal data frequency, usual security protocol and it’s only going to be up loaded for an hour then it will self disintegrate from the system. Let me know if you get delayed and I can reload, but SOP dictates sixty minutes maximum per shared upload. Got it"? "Yea, got it Laura, I know what to do, thanks". "Let's roll” said Art "our driver and detail are waiting".

 

Waiting in the secure parking area, right at the exit of the direct elevator to EAG offices were two vehicles; a black Suburban and a D.C. Police car escort. In the Suburban was a driver and secret service officer. In the Police car were two Washington D.C. Cops. Art and Sam jumped into the back seat and within thirty seconds they were heading south on K street toward the Pentagon. Sam suddenly felt queasy and his peripheral vision was blurry. He felt an intense heat and overwhelming dizziness. He turned to his left to see that Art was unconscious. That was the last thing he saw.