Caution Weirdoes in commands
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When President Donald #Trump announced plans to slap a 10 percent #tariff on oil and gas imports from Canada, he shined an uncomfortable spotlight on a little-known fact about American households.

Millions of them rely on #Canadianoil to keep warm.

While the idea of a tank full of heating oil firing up the furnace may sound quaint to some, it’s how nearly five million U.S. households heated their home in 2023, according to the United States Energy Information Administration.

About 80 percent of them are in the Northeast. In New Hampshire, more than 40 percent of residents use home heating oil, and it Maine it’s more than half.

Much of that oil comes, not from Texas or Oklahoma, but from Canada. As a result, the National Energy Assistance Directors Association the cost of oil-based heating would increase by $117 to $1,576 on average if Trump’s tariffs take effect.

https://www.europesays.com/1880271/

Season 3 Episode 8: Propaganda and Petroturfing with Dr Jordan Kinder

What is petroturfing? What is an energy imaginary? If, as Thomas King says, we are all stories, how can we make sense of which stories are leading us to an understanding of things as they are, rather than misrepresenting reality or persuading us to take a biased view? And what can we do when we learn to critically interpret the world around us? What are some concrete actions we can take as regular folks if we decide that we want to push back against this narrative of “ethical oil” and intervene in the reactionary oil culture war?

Dr Jordan Kinder has spent the last decade of his life thinking about these questions, specifically in the context of the Canadian oil industry and Alberta. The result? His new book Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil, which covers these topics and more, forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press in spring 2024. Join Ariel and Jordan to learn about the many competing narratives about (and even by!) Canadian oil and gas—including but not limited to being labelled dirty oil, ethical oil, one of the world’s leading polluters, an underdog industry under attack, a Canadian success story, the ball and chain around Canada’s neck as it tries to avert climate catastrophe, and the list goes on…

https://youtu.be/_2X-AY5DRV8?si=tV8liBgRi3KLsX8-

#Episode #Season3 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #Oil #CanadianOil #AlbertaOil #Petroculture #Petroturfing #OilAndGas #OilSands #ClimateChange #Pollution #Advertising #Propaganda

"3.6: Propaganda and Petroturfing with Dr Jordan Kinder" PATREON EARLY RELEASE

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Public release next Monday. Until then... what do y'all think "petroturfing" is?

(Hint is in the tags)

#solarpunk #podcast #podcasting #petrocultures #petroturfing #astroturfing #CanadianOil #EthicalOil #EnergyImaginary #JordanKinder