Oil helped shape far more than the American economy.In this episode, Dr. Matthew Huber explains how petroleum transformed American life itself… influencing the rise of suburbia, the structure of cities, consumer culture, geopolitics, and even the way many Americans came to think about freedom, individualism, and public life.Why did the United States become so dependent on automobiles? How did oil companies influence urban development and public transportation? And how did America’s relationship with oil evolve from the age of Standard Oil and the 7 Sisters… to the oil shocks of the 1970s, the Reagan years, the Gulf War, and now the war with Iran?This is a conversation about oil… and the modern American condition.🚩About My 215th Guest Scholars:Dr. Matthew Huber is a professor in the Dept. of Geography and Environment at Syracuse University. His areas of expertise are political economy, energy and capitalism, climate politics and resource geography. He has published extensively on these topics, including the following books:"Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet", and "Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital", which we discuss in this interview. 🚩Related Interviews: —Dr. Jacqueline Weaver: History of Petroleum 🚩Celebrating America - Our New Series: Analyzing American Revolution🚩Adel Aalihost & producer☑️Where to find my program:Home:https://historybehindnews.com Spotify:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Spotify Apple:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Apple YouTube:▶️https://bit.ly/HbN-YT-Sub Adel on Facebook and X.com🚩Support My Program: Click here and join our other supporters of the History Behind News podcast. Thank you. 🎵 attribution, links and license for thetheme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/...
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