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How Exxon, Chevron and their buddies killed the world

Behind the Bastards

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Emission-Free Gasoline

Robert Dunlop, head of the American Petroleum Institute, told Congress in 1959 that electric cars were not a practical investment. He said science would allow for emission-free gasoline vehicles when they reached point of utility. The people will have to figure out how to solve environmental problems on their own, he says. "Make all the money by drilling all the oil out"

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