OMAHA, Neb. -- Next month, the country’s first “terror-free” gasoline station will open in Omaha, Nebraska, the Associated Press reports. The Florida-based Terror-Free Oil Initiative is behind the gasoline station.

The group claims that U.S. dollars used to buy gasoline made from Middle East oil funds terrorism. Because of that, the group wants Americans to purchase oil products that originate from countries that do not support terrorism.

Its marketing materials note, “The purpose of the program is to cut off the flow of money that goes to terrorists and to decrease American's dependency on foreign oil.”

However, only 18 percent of U.S. imports come from the Persian Gulf, according to statistics from the American Petroleum Institute (API). And, API reports that the two largest importers of foreign oil are Canada and Mexico. 

The Terror-Free Oil station will stock fuel from oil companies that do not do business in the Middle East. The marketing materials posted on the company’s Web site do not indicate how it verifies that the oil produced, refined and distributed is not commingled with oil in the system that comes from the Middle East.

Scheduled to open February 1, the station site currently has signs asking for consumers to use non-Middle Eastern oil. The group plans to open other Terror-Free Oil stations.