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NPR: ‘The Sideways Effect’: How A Wine-Obsessed Film Reshaped The Industry (2017)

X (@bonchieredstate): “Every left-winger should have their eyes held open and be forced to watch this on repeat until it sinks in.” (2024)

OutKick: Hit TV Show Crushes Woke Snowflakes With Incredible Ran: WATCH (2025)

Fox News: ‘Landman’ clip goes viral smalling renewable energy: ‘There is nothing clean about this’ (2024)

The Western Journal: Scene from Billy Bob Thorton’s New Show Goes Viral as His ‘Landman’ Character Savages Green Energy (2024)

Paramount Plus: Landman | Tommy Explains Why Even Wind Turbines Depend on the Oil Industry (S1, E3) (2024)

Karl R. Haapala and Preedanood Prempreeda: Comparative life cycle assessment of 2.0 MW wind turbines (2014)

Environmental Science & Technology: Space, Time, and Size Dependencies of Greenhouse Gas Payback Times of Wind Turbines in Northwestern Europe (2019)

ScienceDaily: Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years (2024)

Yale Climate Connections: What’s the carbon footprint of a wind turbine? (2021)

ScienceDirect: Life cycle assessment of two different 2MW class wind turbines (2012)

Plastic Pollution Coalition: Fracked Gas is Now a Growing Share of the Fossil Fuels Being Turned Into Plastics (2024)

Yale Environment 360: The Plastics Pipeline: A Surge of New Production Is on the Way (2019)

SF Chronicle: Your socks are made with plastic and could be loaded with dangerous BPA (2021)

EIA: FAQ: How much oil is consumed in the United States? (Accessed 2025)

Oilprice.com: U.S. Oil Production Shattered Records Again in 2024 (2024)

EIA: United States produces more crude oil than any country, ever (2024)

PB Oil & Gas: The Well That Launched the Permian (2017)

Journal of Petroleum Technology: Shale Wells Producing More Early On, Then Declining Faster Than Ever (2023)

Stockholm Environment Institute: How subsidies aided the US shale oil and gas boom (2021)

Fox News Insider: 'That Was Me, People': Obama Takes Credit for Oil Production Boom (Uploaded 2018)

IEA: World Energy Investment 2024 (2024)

Greenpeace Unearthed: Inside Exxon’s playbook: How America’s biggest oil company continues to oppose action on climate change (2021)
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: Energy is Good for Texas (accessed 2025)

bp: Wind Energy (accessed 2025)

NY Times: Shell, the Oil Giant, Will Sell Renewable Energy to Texans (2022)

Total Energies: Wind, Solar and Hydro Power: Our Renewable Energy Activities in France at a Glance (2024)

Reuters: Exxon says its decarbonization business could outgrow oil, in multi-trillion market (2023)

Forbes: The McDonald’s Grimace Shake’s Viral (And Gruesome) TikTok Trend, Explained (2023)

OERB Homeroom: Petro Pete’s Adventure – Big Bad Dream (accessed 2025)

Open Secrets: Industry Profile: Oil & Gas (accessed 2025)

Drilled: Weaponizing False Equivalence (2018)

Guardian News: ‘I never understood wind’: Trump goes on bizarre tirade against windmills (2019)

Statista: Wind Turbines Are Not Killing Fields for Birds (2019)

Wikipedia: Stephens, Arkansas (accessed 2025)

Paramount Plus: Landman | Q&A with Billy Bob Thornton (2024)

Texas Monthly: The Permian Basin Is Booming With Oil. But at What Cost to West Texans? (2019)

Texas Monthly: Boomtown (2019/2020)

The Joe Rogan Experience: #892 - Greg Fitzsimmons (2016)

The Joe Rogan Experience: #2083 - Taylor Sheridan (2024)

California Energy Commission: 2023 Total System Electric Generation (accessed 2025)

Natural Gas Intelligence: Vistra Eyeing Natural Gas-Fueled Expansion Across Texas to Bolster ERCOT Grid (2024)

NBC News: How Zuckerberg’s fact-checking rollback could usher in a new, chaotic era for social media (2025)