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Hey #EnergyTwitter – Tulsa is in the news for many reasons. The 1921 race massacre, Trump’s rally last month, and the recent Supreme Court ruling. But Tulsa and Oklahoma are important to the history of energy and have been featured in Hollywood films. [A Thread]
If you want to read a fascinating book about how Native Americans in Oklahoma were murdered for their oil, then read “Killers of the Flower Moon”

amazon.com/Killers-Flower…
The Osage Murders overlapped with the birth of the FBI. The book is in development for a movie directed by Martin Scorsese @scorsesemartin and starring Leonardo Di Caprio @LeoDiCaprio and Robert De Niro

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The movie “August: Osage County” with Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts also briefly features oil in the backdrop of scenes filmed in Oklahoma. I wrote about it here:
energyatthemovies.com/oscars-around-…
The movie Oklahoma Crude had some of the biggest stars of the day – George C. Scott, Jack Palance & Faye Dunaway – it was released in 1973 just a few months before the Arab Oil Embargo. This movie skips race relations, but does focus on women’s rights.

imdb.com/title/tt007047…
But Tulsa and oil was already featured on the silver screen in the movie Tulsa in 1949.

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The movie Tulsa was remarkable for its time. It had a diverse cast, highlights a female CEO of an oil company & had strong environmental themes decades before it was common. Check out 14:30 & beyond of my TV Special “Energy at the Movies” @PBS @austinpbs pbs.org/video/klru-pre…
Tula’s opening scene is classic. It has cringeworthy reference to Oklahoma as “Redmans Land” & indirectly mocks the tribes for not realizing there was oil beneath the ground. It also strongly makes the case that oil is the lifeblood of the world.

Chill Wills narrates this opening scene. He had 130 acting credits, including classic oil movies Giant (w/ Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor & James Dean, 1956), Boom Town (w/ Clark Gable & Spencer Tracy, 1940) & The Wheeler Dealers (w/ James Garner, 1963).

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If you like this kind of discussion, I made a TV special for PBS a few years ago called “Energy at the Movies” @energymovies energyatthemovies.com – hoping to make a sequel in the not-too-distant future. [END]
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Remember in 2016 when Trump made coal miners 1 of 2 campaign causes along w/ building a wall along the border?

Those were 2 sides of the same racist coin: Of the 300+ industry classifications in the USA coal mining is the single whitest. BY FAR. [THREAD]

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A key Trump slogan was “Trump Digs Coal”. Many news articles justified it as part of a broader play for “working class voters”. Sometimes they would color their wording to clarify “white working class voters.”

But is coal really that white? Answer: yes.
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The assumption was that he was looking for $$ from coal mine owners. But is that really it? The coal industry only supported his campaign with $223,000 in donations, which is a drop in the bucket for a multi-hundred million dollar presidential campaign.

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A few thoughts on lessons learned from early in the COVID-19 pandemic [THREAD] :

1) We need universal broadband. Sending people to work from home, homeschool, etc. is only possible if everyone has reliable, high-speed access to the internet.

2) We should listen to scientists..
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Hey #EnergyTwitter!

Many of you are in the throes of preparing to teach your energy courses online or homeschooling. Well, it turns out I’ve spent much of the last 7 years creating a variety of online energy literacy resources, the vast preponderance of which is FREE. [THREAD]
The primary collection of online educational content I created is Energy101. We made it for a MOOC that had 40k+ students globally. It covers energy basics, fuels, sectors, & cross-cutting topics. Here are 30 video lectures; they are dated, but FREE: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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