The hidden history of how Big Oil invented the American Dream

Grist ·
Good News United States

What does going on a date have to do with fossil fuels? Everything, according to the petroleum industry.  One advertisement from the pipeline company Energy Transfer follows two people getting ready for a date, the man primping with hair gel, the woman applying lipstick, before meeting at a bar. “That connection was brought to you by petroleum products,” the narrator says. “But what if we lived…

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