{"id":9364,"date":"2010-05-03T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=9364"},"modified":"2010-05-03T07:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:30:38","slug":"oil-giant-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/05\/03\/oil-giant-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil, Giant Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MIXBlBrTx-k&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MIXBlBrTx-k&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n-999yoMghI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n-999yoMghI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/burtynsky_chittagong11.jpg\" alt=\"burtynsky_chittagong1\" title=\"burtynsky_chittagong1\" width=\"499\" height=\"384\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/burtynsky_chittagong11.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/burtynsky_chittagong11-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><br \/>\nSee great photos by Edward Burtynsky here.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballardian.com\/edward-burtynsky-oil-a-ballardian-interpretation\">Edward Burtynsky: Oil \u2013 A Ballardian Interpretation<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His photographs of quarries, factories, mining pits, and railcuts are extraordinary for their depiction of mankind\u2019s organization of the land for resource-extraction and profit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/2006\/12\/27\/oil\/\">Crude: The Story of Oil<\/a>, Sonia Shah 2004<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This 175 page book is a condensed look at <strong>oil, its history and future<\/strong>. It is packed with fact and detail and doesn\u2019t miss much.<br \/>\nUnholy Trinity (Big Oil Big Auto Big Tire), the Presidents, and the American Consumer<br \/>\nOil, Auto, and Tire have for more than a century marketed ever larger, more expensive, gas guzzling, unsafe, products to a willing American public. In 1930 they banded together to take over and eliminate electric streetcars from American cities. Once in control, they removed the rails to be sure streetcars would never return. In 1947 GM, Standard, and Firestone were convicted of collusion to remove streetcars and fined $10,000 collectively.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/12\/27\/crude-oil\/\">Crude Oil<\/a> (previous post)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See great photos by Edward Burtynsky here. Edward Burtynsky: Oil \u2013 A Ballardian Interpretation His photographs of quarries, factories, mining pits, and railcuts are extraordinary for their depiction of mankind\u2019s organization of the land for resource-extraction and profit. Crude: The Story of Oil, Sonia Shah 2004 This 175 page book is a condensed look at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/05\/03\/oil-giant-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oil, Giant Problem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-photography","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}