Posted On: October 14th 2026, 07:32 pm
Crude Nation: Teaching Americans to Love Oil
For today’s Live From the Archives, we’re looking at a promo booklet for Sun Oil’s 1955 “Oil Serves America” exhibit at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute!
Oil has great PR. It’s one of the linchpins of our current climate crisis. Americans and oil (all fossil fuels, really) are in a loving death spiral, and have been for decades. How did we get here?
American science museums have been useful sites for laundering public opinions about oil for decades. Oil companies make exhibits that depict their work as scientific development, and vital to American prosperity.
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