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This is 99% invisible I'm Roman Mars

you may not want to waste energy or burn fossil fuels but the deck is stacked against you.

Everything is designed to just use more and more fuel.

And as you'll see, Lisa Markinelli argues that designed might not be the right word, but let's just say designed for now.

My name is Lisa Marginelli, and I wrote a book called Oil on the Brain Petroleum's Long Strange trip to your tank.

First, a metaphor.

We are on a tugboat boat.

A couple months ago I was at a tugboat race and we were looking at an old tugboat from

when they used to be powered by coal and it was beautiful.

It was shaped like a canoe on the bottom.

And the house on top was rounded and aerodynamic.

Just like it is in the Popeye cartoons. It was gorgeous. It was all very streamlined to slip

through the water and through the air on top.

But there's also a newer diesel tugboat.

And the hull is relatively squareish.

I mean, it's shaped to go through the water,

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