{"id":1658,"date":"2010-01-18T05:18:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T10:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:52:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:52:59","slug":"fossil-fuel-past-renewable-energy-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/fossil-fuel-past-renewable-energy-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday fun: fossil fuel vintage videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sjff_01_img0539.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Written On The Wind (1956)<\/figcaption><\/figure>Energy Refuge kicks off the week in vintage mood with some fossil fuel advertising, news and film footage of yore. These videos are reminders that fossil fuel really is a thing of the past and the future belongs to renewable energy.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Texaco Gasoline (Jack Benny) advert (1950s)<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KFUEQiObfT8&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KFUEQiObfT8&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Trailer for Douglas Sirk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s iconic melodrama <em>Written On The Wind<\/em> (1956), whose set is set against the backdrop of Texan oil money and a dysfunctional family that rules the area. This feverish movie drills deep into the human psyche!<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5Hukvtuclcw&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5Hukvtuclcw&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<!--adsense#300--><\/p>\n<p>1973 BP Gas commercial &#8211; &#8220;Jack Rabbit Starts&#8221;<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yG3f-JIZUq8&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yG3f-JIZUq8&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Leslie Nielson (<em>Airplane<\/em>, <em>Naked Gun<\/em>) talks about America&#8217;s dependency on foreign oil in this 1981 Shell commercial.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lt3u6iomWH0&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lt3u6iomWH0&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Trouble starts to brew &#8230; NBC Nightly News coverage (October 1973) of OPEC&#8217;s decision to cut exports of oil to the United States along with other nations.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VCLRlVxOH-Q&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VCLRlVxOH-Q&amp;hl=pt_BR&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<!--adsense--><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/61b5e08a-0427-4b68-b8bf-746b41b8fa68\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=61b5e08a-0427-4b68-b8bf-746b41b8fa68\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" style=\"border:none;float:right\"><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/new-report-outlines-how-clean-energy-can-generate-jobs-in-the-u-s\/\" title=\"New report outlines how clean energy can generate jobs in the U.S.\">New report outlines how clean energy can generate jobs in the U.S.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/see-how-big-the-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-is\/\" title=\"See how big the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is\">See how big the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/ideas-to-green-your-home\/\" title=\"Ideas to green your home\">Ideas to green your home<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/latin-america-starts-to-migrate-to-renewable-energy\/\" title=\"Latin America starts to migrate to renewable energy\">Latin America starts to migrate to renewable energy<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/is-the-algal-biofuel-dream-about-to-come-true\/\" title=\"Is the algal biofuel dream about to come true?\">Is the algal biofuel dream about to come true?<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Refuge kicks off the week in vintage mood with some fossil fuel advertising, news and film footage of yore. These videos are reminders that fossil fuel really is a thing of the past and the future belongs to renewable energy. Related Posts:New report outlines how clean energy can generate jobs in the U.S.See how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[239,246,88,1722,245,247,248,1713,108],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-add-new-tag","tag-douglas-sirk","tag-energy","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-jack-benny","tag-nbc-nightly-news","tag-opec","tag-renewable-energy","tag-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9614,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/9614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}