Who Actually Controls Gas Prices?

Join groups & Contact reps:

Urban Green: https://www.urbangreencouncil.org/con...

Sierra Club: https://www.sierraclub.org/articles/2...

RMI: https://rmi.org/our-work/building-ele...

Greenlining: http://greenlining.org/publications/r...

Contact your senators: https://contactsenators.com/

Contact your representatives: https://www.house.gov/representatives...

Some reading you can do:

This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein Hot Mess by Matt Winning

Merchants of Doubt by Erik Conway & Naomi Oreskes

Overheated by Kate Aronoff

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

All We Can Save by a bunch of great writers

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Drawdown by Paul Hawken

SOURCES AND FACTS:

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin

The Energy System by Travis Bradford

Where U.S. Oil comes from: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/o...

More U.S. Oil: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.ph...

U.S. Imports:

• https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/o...

• https://www.afpm.org/sites/default/fi...

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/judeclem...

• https://www.americangeosciences.org/c...

Gasoline Standards: https://www.epa.gov/gasoline-standard...

Gasoline Profit Margins: https://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...

Crude Oil Historical Data:

• https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crud...

• https://oilandenergyonline.com/articl...

Negative Oil Prices:

• https://www.marketwatch.com/story/oil...

• https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/20/invest...

OPEC OPEC stats: https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/pres...

OPEC v USA: https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcoh...

OPEC v Russia: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/bu...

OPEC v Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Ru...

OPEC+: https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcoh...

US Oil Problems: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...

Strategic Oil Reserves: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/23/politi...

Gas Industry Capital Expenditure:

• https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/...

• https://www.reuters.com/business/ener...

• https://www.npr.org/2021/03/06/973649...

Gas Industry Revenue: https://www.statista.com/statistics/2...

Episode Credits

Written by Rollie Williams and Matt Nelsen with help from Ben Boult and Nicole Conlan

Shot by Matt Nelsen, Nicole Conlan, pickups by Jesse Wilcoxen, Mark Vigeant, and Rollie Williams

Opening Graphics by Ian MK Cessna (https://ianhasawebsite.com/)

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