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Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture
A graphic novel that confronts our habits, narratives, and fantasies head-on to help
break our petroleum dependency
What if the biggest barriers to responding to climate change are not technological or governmental but, rather, cultural? In other words, what if we ourselves could help to enact change through a deeper understanding of our petroleum dependency? In a provocative graphic format that draws widely from history, critical theory, and popular culture, Gasoline Dreams explores and challenges the ways fossil fuels have shaped our identities, relationships, and our ability to imagine sustainable, equitable futures.
As our rapidly warming planet is pushed toward ecological collapse, we might often feel helpless or paralyzed by the enormity of the challenges confronting us. However, reflecting upon the cultural dimensions of our predicament helps reveal the great potential for social transformation inherent in the multiplying crises. Author and artist Simon Orpana engages with contemporary scholarship in the emergent field of Energy Humanities to confront the habits, narratives, and fantasies that support our attachment to fossil fuels. By revealing the many ways petroculture repeatedly fails to deliver on its promises of “the good life,” Gasoline Dreams calls us to the difficult work of waking up from the fantasies that inhibit us from working toward a global transition to renewable energy.
Written in an engaging graphic format that makes relevant historical, cultural, and political analyses of global warming and petrol dependency important to a wide audience, Gasoline Dreams refutes the progress narratives that depict contemporary, energy-intensive societies as the inevitable product of human history. By revealing the contingencies, coercions, and compulsions this myth disguises, the book allows us to imagine truly progressive alternatives. Rather than casting climate change as a problem for technological elites to solve, the book confronts the everyday realities that reinforce our dependence on fossil fuels, offering a space of hope and engagement from which concerned people can work to build a more sustainable future.
On the threshold of the single greatest transformation the human species has yet faced, Gasoline Dreams challenges us to start living, working, and dreaming differently to become less culturally dependent on petroleum.
break our petroleum dependency
What if the biggest barriers to responding to climate change are not technological or governmental but, rather, cultural? In other words, what if we ourselves could help to enact change through a deeper understanding of our petroleum dependency? In a provocative graphic format that draws widely from history, critical theory, and popular culture, Gasoline Dreams explores and challenges the ways fossil fuels have shaped our identities, relationships, and our ability to imagine sustainable, equitable futures.
As our rapidly warming planet is pushed toward ecological collapse, we might often feel helpless or paralyzed by the enormity of the challenges confronting us. However, reflecting upon the cultural dimensions of our predicament helps reveal the great potential for social transformation inherent in the multiplying crises. Author and artist Simon Orpana engages with contemporary scholarship in the emergent field of Energy Humanities to confront the habits, narratives, and fantasies that support our attachment to fossil fuels. By revealing the many ways petroculture repeatedly fails to deliver on its promises of “the good life,” Gasoline Dreams calls us to the difficult work of waking up from the fantasies that inhibit us from working toward a global transition to renewable energy.
Written in an engaging graphic format that makes relevant historical, cultural, and political analyses of global warming and petrol dependency important to a wide audience, Gasoline Dreams refutes the progress narratives that depict contemporary, energy-intensive societies as the inevitable product of human history. By revealing the contingencies, coercions, and compulsions this myth disguises, the book allows us to imagine truly progressive alternatives. Rather than casting climate change as a problem for technological elites to solve, the book confronts the everyday realities that reinforce our dependence on fossil fuels, offering a space of hope and engagement from which concerned people can work to build a more sustainable future.
On the threshold of the single greatest transformation the human species has yet faced, Gasoline Dreams challenges us to start living, working, and dreaming differently to become less culturally dependent on petroleum.
208 pages, Paperback
Published September 28, 2021
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July 25, 2024
So it has basically taken me three months to completely read through the featured textual themes and contents of Simon Orpana's 2021 graphic novel Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture (as well as of course to also look at the accompanying artwork).
But to be perfectly honest and clear, my long, most definitely rather frustrating and often even bordering on major personal annoyance and discomfort reading (and viewing) experience and time regarding Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture has not NOT AT ALL been because I have been finding Simon Orpana’s featured views and his takes on what he labels as our globally dangerous and often absolute, all encompassing and both socially and politically frightening dependence and reliance on gasoline, on oil, on the petroleum industry as problematic, as IN ANY MANNER unacceptable or yes as extreme or as exaggerated (I mean, one just has to look at global warming and how at present that vile war criminal and dicktator (sic) Vladimir Putin basically has in particular Western Europe by the proverbial throat so to speak and can rather do what he wants in the Ukraine due to Europe’s reliance on Russian oil and gas for us as readers to know that Simon Orpana absolutely and totally tells an inconvenient but required and essential, that Orpana is relaying the necessary truth in Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture).
As yes indeed, my majorly drawn out and often hugely frustrating reading time for Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture is ONLY, is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT because I really have had to pace myself perusal wise due to the intensely busy and constantly assaulting my less than stellar eyesight illustrations and that the physical dimensions of the presented text are so small that even with my reading glasses permanently in place I have had to both squint and sometimes use a magnifying glass in order to be able to read Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture with adequate understanding and a modicum of comfort. And indeed, that both Simon Orpana's written words and his accompanying graphic images, that they very much and quite constantly have had and continue to have the tendency to give me tension headaches and migraines due to eye strain, due to their crowdedness and due to the fact that each page of Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture is just too filled with words and often visually blurry artwork, this most definitely has been anything but pleasant (and is equally why I really cannot recommend Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture to anyone with either vision or visual contrast issues and that I personally really do think that Simon Orpana’s important messages and analyses for Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture would in my humble opinion do much better and be less of a potential visual frustration for many of us if this were actually not a graphic novel format).
But to be perfectly honest and clear, my long, most definitely rather frustrating and often even bordering on major personal annoyance and discomfort reading (and viewing) experience and time regarding Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture has not NOT AT ALL been because I have been finding Simon Orpana’s featured views and his takes on what he labels as our globally dangerous and often absolute, all encompassing and both socially and politically frightening dependence and reliance on gasoline, on oil, on the petroleum industry as problematic, as IN ANY MANNER unacceptable or yes as extreme or as exaggerated (I mean, one just has to look at global warming and how at present that vile war criminal and dicktator (sic) Vladimir Putin basically has in particular Western Europe by the proverbial throat so to speak and can rather do what he wants in the Ukraine due to Europe’s reliance on Russian oil and gas for us as readers to know that Simon Orpana absolutely and totally tells an inconvenient but required and essential, that Orpana is relaying the necessary truth in Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture).
As yes indeed, my majorly drawn out and often hugely frustrating reading time for Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture is ONLY, is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT because I really have had to pace myself perusal wise due to the intensely busy and constantly assaulting my less than stellar eyesight illustrations and that the physical dimensions of the presented text are so small that even with my reading glasses permanently in place I have had to both squint and sometimes use a magnifying glass in order to be able to read Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture with adequate understanding and a modicum of comfort. And indeed, that both Simon Orpana's written words and his accompanying graphic images, that they very much and quite constantly have had and continue to have the tendency to give me tension headaches and migraines due to eye strain, due to their crowdedness and due to the fact that each page of Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture is just too filled with words and often visually blurry artwork, this most definitely has been anything but pleasant (and is equally why I really cannot recommend Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture to anyone with either vision or visual contrast issues and that I personally really do think that Simon Orpana’s important messages and analyses for Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture would in my humble opinion do much better and be less of a potential visual frustration for many of us if this were actually not a graphic novel format).
October 17, 2025
Books that review themselves: " . . . [P]ages full of borrowed ideas and the desire for change.
This is one of those books that, while I agree with a lot of it, simply bored the hell out of me with its long-winded, droning, and preachy tirade. It's an echo chamber work, that is mostly going to be read by folks who think along the same lines and is unlikely to change the mind of those who don't if it does happen to fall in their hands.
Simon Orpana lays out how the oil industry has insinuated itself into the center of our culture in ways overt and covert, obvious and surprising. He inserts some pop culture references -- analyzing A Quiet Place, Easy Rider and Taxi Driver for the hidden messages and symbolism he sees about petroculture -- but he mostly relies on the talking-head style of documentarianism, dropping in giant text blocks of quotes from academics who have inspired and influenced his current mindset. He manages to squeeze some art in the midst of all the text, but his ink-heavy style isn't particularly striking or impressive.
What I did find interesting was that in his endnotes Orpana actually credits the photographers, artists, and filmmakers whose work formed the basis of his own illustrations, be it homage or direct photo-reference. It's a common practice with cartoonists to swipe, but giving credit where it is due is quite the rarity. I'd like to see this practice picked up by others.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents
• Foreword by Imre Szeman
• Introduction: The False Liberation of the On-Ramp
1. Petroculture
2. Big Oily Dreams
3. Attachemnt
4. Quilting Point
5. Petrotemporality
6. Scenarios
7. Excess
8. The Beach
• Afterword by Mark Simpson
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
This is one of those books that, while I agree with a lot of it, simply bored the hell out of me with its long-winded, droning, and preachy tirade. It's an echo chamber work, that is mostly going to be read by folks who think along the same lines and is unlikely to change the mind of those who don't if it does happen to fall in their hands.
Simon Orpana lays out how the oil industry has insinuated itself into the center of our culture in ways overt and covert, obvious and surprising. He inserts some pop culture references -- analyzing A Quiet Place, Easy Rider and Taxi Driver for the hidden messages and symbolism he sees about petroculture -- but he mostly relies on the talking-head style of documentarianism, dropping in giant text blocks of quotes from academics who have inspired and influenced his current mindset. He manages to squeeze some art in the midst of all the text, but his ink-heavy style isn't particularly striking or impressive.
What I did find interesting was that in his endnotes Orpana actually credits the photographers, artists, and filmmakers whose work formed the basis of his own illustrations, be it homage or direct photo-reference. It's a common practice with cartoonists to swipe, but giving credit where it is due is quite the rarity. I'd like to see this practice picked up by others.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents
• Foreword by Imre Szeman
• Introduction: The False Liberation of the On-Ramp
1. Petroculture
2. Big Oily Dreams
3. Attachemnt
4. Quilting Point
5. Petrotemporality
6. Scenarios
7. Excess
8. The Beach
• Afterword by Mark Simpson
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
October 28, 2021
I wasn't able to finish this book. I got three chapters in trying to give it a chance but found the writing to preachy and the artwork too gloomy. Which is understandable with it in part being about global warming, but the bright colorful cover made me think that this book would be a little different than the daily rhetoric about global warming I hear about. Especially when living in the Pacific Northwest I don't need to hear about how wildfires are the norm. I live that norm everyday myself.
January 15, 2022
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March 29, 2022
The contents of Gasoline Dreams are great. The book is physically hard to read. It took me months to get through it because the woodcut style of the text and graphics gave me headaches. I became reluctant to pick it up because who likes headaches?
The cover is deceptive. It is brightly colored with the text and integrated into an interesting but easy to comprehend visual. The insides, though are all in black and white with text and images fighting for space. It was tough to figure out what I had read and what I hadn’t because there was so much competing for my eye’s attention. I reread some pages several times before I understood what he was saying. After all that effort to comprehend what was on the page, I’d come back to it and realize the only information I retained was the headache I had after reading a few pages the last time.
From what I remember, his ideas are interesting and I’d love to see it as a miniseries or listen to him on a podcast. Orpana is pulling a lot of threads together, maybe too many threads, but they all look interesting. My best guess is that Orpana’s theory is that our consumption of fossil fuels (petroculture) has become a part of our (Western/North American) culture and as such it has become a part of every part of our lives – political, religious, financial, and artistic. It has become so deeply ingrained with identity that people will become violent and irrational in defense of petroculture. I don’t think he’s wrong, and I wish the information had been presented in a way that was more digestible. I don’t mean dumbed down – I mean my eyeballs screamed at the page and my brain ran away.
I received this as an advance reader copy from Fordham University Press via NetGalley. My opinions are my own.
The cover is deceptive. It is brightly colored with the text and integrated into an interesting but easy to comprehend visual. The insides, though are all in black and white with text and images fighting for space. It was tough to figure out what I had read and what I hadn’t because there was so much competing for my eye’s attention. I reread some pages several times before I understood what he was saying. After all that effort to comprehend what was on the page, I’d come back to it and realize the only information I retained was the headache I had after reading a few pages the last time.
From what I remember, his ideas are interesting and I’d love to see it as a miniseries or listen to him on a podcast. Orpana is pulling a lot of threads together, maybe too many threads, but they all look interesting. My best guess is that Orpana’s theory is that our consumption of fossil fuels (petroculture) has become a part of our (Western/North American) culture and as such it has become a part of every part of our lives – political, religious, financial, and artistic. It has become so deeply ingrained with identity that people will become violent and irrational in defense of petroculture. I don’t think he’s wrong, and I wish the information had been presented in a way that was more digestible. I don’t mean dumbed down – I mean my eyeballs screamed at the page and my brain ran away.
I received this as an advance reader copy from Fordham University Press via NetGalley. My opinions are my own.
November 21, 2022
I thought since this was a graphic novel style book that it would be very accessible, but it actually felt more like reading a graduate level text. Parts were interesting, but many parts were very dense.
March 3, 2022
Thank you to NetGalley and Fordham University Press for this eARC of Gasoline Dreams: Waking up from Petroculture by Simon Orpana in exchange for an honest review. This graphic novel is jam packed with research and direct quotes from climate scientists and activists. Orpana does an excellent job of arguing the inherent premise that American culture is completely entrenched in petroculture (i.e. the excessive use of fossil fuels and gasoline energy), even breaking down the impact of that relationship on popular culture (movies such as A Quiet Place). This is a DENSELY packed book to read. I am used to flying through graphic novels in no longer than an hour, but found it difficult to engage with this material, and it took me several sittings to complete reading. There was so much text and so many other neat tidbits within the graphics on each page that my eyes became quite distracted and overwhelmed. I also found the tone of the book to be relatively gloomy. Informative, yes. But this was not the book of hopeful solutions and proposed sustainable changes that was alluded to in the book synopsis. Overall, this is an informative book, I simply wish it was more accessible to a larger audience.
November 4, 2021
Thank you to Fordham University Press and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!
Gasoline Dreams by Simon Orpana is an innovative blend of graphic novel and academic research. Gasoline Dreams is about people's reliance on petroleum and how our culture depends on it to survive. According to the description, this book "explores and challenges the ways fossil fuels have shaped our identities, relationships, and our ability to imagine sustainable, equitable futures." This book will appeal to fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and its slightly more academic sequel, which mixed images with academic prose and concepts.
Overall, Gasoline Dreams is innovative, because its content is purely academic, but none of the pages are fully text. Instead, the author uses black and white images and graphics in the style of a traditional graphic novel to tell the "story," illustrate metaphors, and explain more difficult academic concepts. I took off 2 stars, because I found the book difficult to understand at points. Although I consider myself an educated person, there were section where I did not know what the author was talking about, and the images did not help. For example, the section on A Quiet Place and Stranger Things was difficult for me to relate to the book's topic of "petroculture." If you're intrigued by the description, or if you're a fan of academic graphic novels, you can check out this book, which is available now!
Gasoline Dreams by Simon Orpana is an innovative blend of graphic novel and academic research. Gasoline Dreams is about people's reliance on petroleum and how our culture depends on it to survive. According to the description, this book "explores and challenges the ways fossil fuels have shaped our identities, relationships, and our ability to imagine sustainable, equitable futures." This book will appeal to fans of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and its slightly more academic sequel, which mixed images with academic prose and concepts.
Overall, Gasoline Dreams is innovative, because its content is purely academic, but none of the pages are fully text. Instead, the author uses black and white images and graphics in the style of a traditional graphic novel to tell the "story," illustrate metaphors, and explain more difficult academic concepts. I took off 2 stars, because I found the book difficult to understand at points. Although I consider myself an educated person, there were section where I did not know what the author was talking about, and the images did not help. For example, the section on A Quiet Place and Stranger Things was difficult for me to relate to the book's topic of "petroculture." If you're intrigued by the description, or if you're a fan of academic graphic novels, you can check out this book, which is available now!
January 30, 2023
Orpana's reading of Kransinkis A Quiet Place was masterful. Gasoline Dreams is a truly thought-provoking incredibly effective political tool that connects societal fears surrounding personal freedom to petrol use as it imagines worlds after oil. A must read for anyone interested in the energy humanities. The artwork is as incredible as the message is powerful, we need to wake up from petroculture and imagine a more equitable future that is powered by less destructive forms of energy.
November 14, 2021
in my opinion, the writing is very cloudy and hard to read, making it frustrating and confusing to understand where to read. also the type of drawing is not my favorite, but the idea is a great one.
December 11, 2021
Good information, wrong vehicle to disseminate it.
April 28, 2022
An interesting look at how gasoline is held to be the responsible for pollution. The author writes a thought provoking article on the destroying power of gasoline in our world. He writes that our dependence on gasoline and fossil fuels is deeply entrenched part of the world’s culture in spite of its destructive properties. The information is overwhelming. He “texts” using handwriting at times. There are pages that look “xeroxed.” The drawings are descriptive. Will you agree with his argument about gasoline?
I think that it will take reader dedication to finished the “book.” It is a book that will have you thinking of it. It’s not a quick read.
Disclaimer: I received an arc of this book from the author/publisher from Netgalley. I wasn’t obligated to write a favorable review or any review at all. The thoughts are strictly my own.
I think that it will take reader dedication to finished the “book.” It is a book that will have you thinking of it. It’s not a quick read.
Disclaimer: I received an arc of this book from the author/publisher from Netgalley. I wasn’t obligated to write a favorable review or any review at all. The thoughts are strictly my own.
May 25, 2022
I find a lot of other reviews here a bit harsh against Gasoline Dreams! The argument is rousing and clear, drawing largely on cinema and pop culture as the visual roadmap to the perverse petroculture it challenges. The graphic novel, as the author mentions, is not the easiest choice for publishing theory, and yet it offers so much potential. I found the illustrations both provoking and helpful for comprehension.
Fantastic and multi-faceted coverage on petroculture and anti-petro movements and activism, great for prompting discussion and one’s own cultural imagination. Using a more consistent font or a more “old school” lettering style would have improved clarity a lot, and I feel some of the structure within chapters needs work (though the division into its particular sections was a good structural move imo)
Fantastic and multi-faceted coverage on petroculture and anti-petro movements and activism, great for prompting discussion and one’s own cultural imagination. Using a more consistent font or a more “old school” lettering style would have improved clarity a lot, and I feel some of the structure within chapters needs work (though the division into its particular sections was a good structural move imo)
February 3, 2025
This book is dense, but everybody that I know should read this.
The book is a graphic novel, the artwork being grim and gloomy, which couples with the content of the story that challenges social norms in the wake of a coming climate crisis.
It pains a prophetic picture. It was published in 2021, and many of the events it depicts/warns about, such as the defunding of education, the doubling-down on petroculture’s exploitative, unsustainable practices (drill baby drill), have been realized since Trump took power for a second time 2 weeks ago. This makes me wonder what else Orpana is correct in believing will happen.
The book also backs up all of its grand claims of the destruction of climate change with citation after citation of scholarly work and research.
The book is a graphic novel, the artwork being grim and gloomy, which couples with the content of the story that challenges social norms in the wake of a coming climate crisis.
It pains a prophetic picture. It was published in 2021, and many of the events it depicts/warns about, such as the defunding of education, the doubling-down on petroculture’s exploitative, unsustainable practices (drill baby drill), have been realized since Trump took power for a second time 2 weeks ago. This makes me wonder what else Orpana is correct in believing will happen.
The book also backs up all of its grand claims of the destruction of climate change with citation after citation of scholarly work and research.
March 26, 2022
This introduced me to a lot of concepts, like petroculture, and other ideas about how time and the way we live is all structured around oil and its a part of our way of life, identity, and consciousness. Some of it can be a little heady, which isn't the best for a graphic novel, it's a little wordy or academic sometimes, but I appreciated the sentiment overall, I'm just not sure that kind of language will be what wins over the masses. I liked that it is forward looking and imagines a future and that things can change, that kind of imaginative thinking is really helpful when the subject matter is pretty bleak.
December 18, 2023
This was the most abysmal reading experience, and not just because of the topic. Because you'd expect a topic like our dependence on petrolium to be dull or drudging, or trying to sway your heart in some way.
But the way this book is both written and formatted makes it difficult to read making it basically impossible to read easily (like I remember it physically hurting my eyes looking at this book), on top of the narrative being dragging.
But the way this book is both written and formatted makes it difficult to read making it basically impossible to read easily (like I remember it physically hurting my eyes looking at this book), on top of the narrative being dragging.
November 18, 2024
On one hand, I sort of like that this is a graphic novel. What better way to show that oil has its hand in everything by avoiding the common panels that divide the pages of graphic novel. On the other hand, I find myself wondering why this is even a graphic novel at all. There are so many long-winded sections and blurbs that almost seem to forget that illustrations can also convey the message just as well. Not too crazy about some of the politics in this one.
November 27, 2021
I don’t read a lot of graphic novels so it took me a few pages to get into they style and graphics of “Gasoline Dreams.” I found the facts interesting to read, the art work was dreary and set the mood for the topic. All in all this graphic novel was an informative and important read.
**I received an electronic ARC from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review of this book.
**I received an electronic ARC from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review of this book.
October 11, 2022
Really good, well-thought-out material in a format that was a bit hard to read. I had trouble focusing on the busy pages, but if it hadn't been in graphic form, it might have been even harder. Still, the material made up for the shortcomings of the formatting.
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March 29, 2021Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
February 2, 2023
Good content. Difficult to read due to style of print, and less accessible language. It’s a graphic novel — use less words, inspire through visuals, have more blank space.
March 30, 2024
i appreciate the concept but it just doesn’t work. this reads like a dissertation and shouldn’t have been a graphic novel, but it does have some valuable information.
August 19, 2025
I want to sit in on whatever environmental literature class is reading this
February 16, 2023
Gasoline Dreams takes readers on a journey through "petroculture," discussing how some parts of society became so reliant on fossil fuels and some of the very serious consequences of that dependence. It reads rather like a highly-illustrated college essay, bringing in a variety of sources and visual examples. There are frequent references to films and media sources that help showcase the way that petrol is deeply woven into every aspect of life.
I am of the opinion that, in many ways, this is the book we need. It is emphatic, informed and specific. However, I couldn't figure out why it was so heavily illustrated. The font style that was consistent with superhero comics, but it was difficult to read. Since a good deal of the text was written for highly educated individuals (with use of advanced vocabulary and complex themes and sentences) it felt like an awkward juxtaposition to have caricatures with illegible quotes covering the pages. I appreciate what this book is going for, but I don't think it's approachable for a wide audience. It is too advanced for any of my students.
I am of the opinion that, in many ways, this is the book we need. It is emphatic, informed and specific. However, I couldn't figure out why it was so heavily illustrated. The font style that was consistent with superhero comics, but it was difficult to read. Since a good deal of the text was written for highly educated individuals (with use of advanced vocabulary and complex themes and sentences) it felt like an awkward juxtaposition to have caricatures with illegible quotes covering the pages. I appreciate what this book is going for, but I don't think it's approachable for a wide audience. It is too advanced for any of my students.
January 4, 2023
Thanks to NetGalley and its author Simon Orpana for providing me with an advanced copy.
What if the biggest barriers to responding to climate change are not technological or governmental but, rather, cultural? In other words, what if we ourselves could help to enact change through a deeper understanding of our petroleum dependency?
Back to the question that NetGalley gave us, yes. The story of Gasoline Dreams tells us that. What is the real situation and the biggest impact onto the climate change when we are using the biggest industry to get on fire our nature. Mostly it tells us about petroleum and its results in another products who come from petroleum.
It is kinda boring at the beginning. The rest of the graphic novel was good, though.
4.0
What if the biggest barriers to responding to climate change are not technological or governmental but, rather, cultural? In other words, what if we ourselves could help to enact change through a deeper understanding of our petroleum dependency?
Back to the question that NetGalley gave us, yes. The story of Gasoline Dreams tells us that. What is the real situation and the biggest impact onto the climate change when we are using the biggest industry to get on fire our nature. Mostly it tells us about petroleum and its results in another products who come from petroleum.
It is kinda boring at the beginning. The rest of the graphic novel was good, though.
4.0
January 1, 2025
I loved this book! It’s a smart, creative introduction to the complex concept of petroculture. Blending sociocultural analysis with personal reflection, the book reveals the pervasive influence of petroculture—from car-centric urban design to the ubiquity of plastics in everyday products. It challenges readers to imagine a post-petroleum world and think about the profound changes needed to break free from fossil fuel dependence.
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