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How Big Oil Shaped the American Dream

Original: The hidden history of how Big Oil invented the American Dream https:// grist.org/culture/hidden-histo ry-american-dream-

Grist reports on the history of how American oil and gas companies promoted the postwar ideal of prosperity, marketing the family car and modern gas-powered kitchen as the good life, thereby embedding fossil fuel consumption into consumer culture. Readers and commentators online are sharing the piece amid ongoing climate debates about the industry's influence on public habits and policy.

Why now: Fossil fuel companies' historical role in shaping consumer culture is drawing renewed attention as climate scrutiny of the industry grows

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• The hidden history of how Big Oil invented the American Dream https:// grist.org/culture/hidden-histo ry-american-dream-oil-gas-investigation/ From the family car to the dream kitchen, fossil fuel companies sold a vision of prosperity that depended on their own products. Grist… · MillMessenger@journa.host

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