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The Michael Berry Show

Will History Be Honest About How Oil Improved Our Quality Of Life

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

The Michael Berry Show

0:30.0

It was a book written in the late 80s called the prize

0:42.1

The guy's name was Daniel Jurgen. I could be wrong on that Y-E-R-G-I-N, something like that

0:50.4

And then they made a documentary about it Donald Sutherland did the voice and

0:58.4

And the prize is about the is about oil and

1:05.2

Oil throughout history which takes you back to

1:11.0

About the 1830s 1840s

1:14.4

There's a professor quoted frequently in there named Joe Pratt Joe Pratt was a

1:21.7

Professor at University of Houston when I was there. I looked him up

1:26.0

He's still alive which is good. It's been 30 years since the movies since I was in college the lower 30 years about 30 years and

1:35.8

He was very well respected and I liked him a lot and

1:41.0

He has quoted a lot in there about

1:46.4

Oil and where it was discovered

1:50.0

But there is a lot written and he's not the first one to make this argument

1:53.6

There there's been a number of historians to make this argument, but I don't think they'll make this in the future

1:58.0

And the argument goes that America's big win in World War II

2:05.1

Was the ability to fuel our equipment?

2:10.4

When you study wars

2:13.2

You study wars the way

2:16.9

non-scientists non-engineers describe them

2:20.3

These people were good people and they want to know why because these people love with their how to

2:28.4

Mustache that didn't even extend all the way to the sides and now are not nice and they were always angry

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