You Owe Your Life to Oil & Gas

How dare you criticize fossil fuels! Don’t you know you live in a society that has become utterly dependent on them?!? 

Sources & Citations

• Richard Madeley Clashes With Climate Activist In Fiery Oil Protest Debate | Good Morning Britain (ITV, 2022) 

• Leslie Nielsen for Shell 1981 TV commercial (YouTube) 

• Energy Transfer: Life Runs On Energy, Connected by Oil and Natural Gas, Energy Transfer TV Commercial (YouTube) 

• 1997 Newspaper Advertisements by ClimateFacts.org, Global Climate Coalition, trade associations and unions (ClimateFiles) 

• Epcot's 30th: Mickey and Goofy Explore The Universe of Energy (Practical WDW) 

• API: Oil Progress Week Cartoon 

• The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing (Guardian, 2021) 

• Clear Energy Alliance: Thanks, Fossil Fuels (YouTube) 

• Friday Funny: Greta Thunberg’s perfect petroleum-free world (Watts Up With That?)

Episode Credits

Hosts: Rollie Williams & Nicole Conlan 

Executive Producer: Ben Boult 

Audio Producer: Gregory Haddock 

Researchers: Canute Haroldson & James Crugnale  

Art: Jordan Doll 

Music: Tony Domenick

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