What Are You Going to Run ‘Em On? Tomato Soup?

I thought this scene from the 1940 Gable-Tracy-Colbert movie Boom Town might change some views about what people were thinking about oil 75 years ago.

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    I don’t know the full context of the snippet but I was interested in the “some debates never change” aspect and the appeal to emotions.

    I wonder what would happen if, say, the conservationists would just come out and say “we are anti-growth” and have made the value judgment that
    the benefits to growth do not outweigh it’s cost. Could they do it without resort to apocalyptic predictions of running out or even extinction?

    I just saw an article about living in a house with the thermostat set at 45. Conservation thing. I thought to myself “ok, make your case and sell it.” Knock yourself out.

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