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The internal combustion engine changed a lot more than just

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[horse pulling a carriage with a 10mph speed limit sign] speed limits oil power changed how we grow food how we travel how we go to war and

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even the temperature of the planet itself badly well that's a lot to cover

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so we'll spare you the jokes from jump right like i said should have [man jumping into a barrel]

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thought that through you might need to rinse off your before we start okay now

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we're going to figuratively jump right in with transportation the automobile [earth spinning around]

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era changed plenty of things beyond getting from point A to point B factory [a man standing inside a train]

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production and labor also changed because we needed to produce cheap cars

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quickly by 1927 the best car factories could turn out a finished car every 24 [cars falling from a factory out onto the road]

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seconds which for references is how long it takes us to cook our sausage breakfast

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sandwiches both equally impressive uses of time road building also boomed and [builders surfacing a road]

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transformed the landscape and because of new roads and cars houses could be

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farther away from cities thus the suburbs sub urban areas and presumably

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terrifying soccer moms were born as for food well restaurants started catering to [a soccer mom screaming at another woman]

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people on the go with the invention of the drive-thru yep without cars there

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might be no fast food imagine a world where KFC's chizza had never been born oh

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for those who missed that brief questionable moment in time that's pizza [a chicken feeding on a KFC's chizza]

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with a fried chicken crust yeah actually we gladly imagine a world without that

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boundaries exist for a reason there colonel oil and the ICE also did a number on

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agriculture in the 20th century agriculture all over the world

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experienced a huge boom part of that boom was fueled by new gasoline powered [agricultural landmarks shown with a boom]

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farm tools like tractors combines harvesters bailers and threshers work

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that used to take 30 guys all day to finish could now be done by one man in a [30 workers in a field running away from a tractor]

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couple of hours in 1800 it took 55 hours to seed harvest and process a single

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acre of farmland in 1925 it took 5 hours and more corn equals more doritos more

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doritos equals more doritos locos tacos which is vastly superior to the [a man eating lots of dorito's]

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horrifying chizza and of course we can't get the ICE's huge effect on warfare well [men dressed in army gear pointing guns at each other]

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the energy density of oil and the small size of the ICE gave industrialized

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nations all sorts of new weapon trucks tanks airplanes you know the works [truck, tanks and airplane images]

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combine that with factory produced weapons like machine guns and bombs and [woman in the process of creating a weapon]

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we've got a recipe for millions of deaths ah humanity you never disappoint us

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there's the ICE's effect on the environment well every ICE runs on [a polar bear running away from an office of the ICE]

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some kind of petroleum and burning millions of barrels of oil every day has

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a few major side effects uh-huh it's not just our fly sense of style that's [a man dressed stylishly and lots of fans]

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the making it hot in here burning all that carbon into the atmosphere is

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gradually raising the planets average temperature leading to all sorts of [a selection of different weather]

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extreme weather and we can't forget about oil spills which are never pretty

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in our efforts to pump oil out of the deepest darkest recesses of the planet

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we have to ship it across entire continents and oceans and even with the [oil tanker accidentially hitting an iceberg and spilling oil into the sea]

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best of intentions accidents happen unlike spilt milk spilt oil is in fact

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something to cry about and news flash there isn't unlimited oil so eventually

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alternative fuels will be necessary petroleum is made of tiny fossilized

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critters and the only way to get more oil is to wait several million years for [a person in a laboratory looking at a critter under a microscope]

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more plankton to fossilize put that into perspective it's about the same

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amount of time that we wait at the DMV and you know no one can wait that long [frustrated people cuing in line at the DMV]

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