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00:00:01 - Beginning of Interview/ Introduction 00:00:31 - Knowledge About Energy as a Child

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Segment Synopsis: Question: Growing up, were you aware of where energy came from? Answer: When I was growing up, I lived on a farm. We heated house with oil, eventually I learned about where fossil fuels came from. There were people who were still heating with wood. Remembers some places would heat with coal, though it was less common.

Keywords: childhood; energy; farming; oil; wood stoves

00:01:24 - Parents Knowledge of Energy

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Segment Synopsis: Question: What did your parents tell you about energy? Answer: Shut the door, you’ll let all the heat out. We were conscious that we wouldn’t make 3 or 4 trips to town instead of one. Lives in the same town where he grew up, and one thing that is different now is that he drives to Madison 3 or 4 times in a day. Growing up, that would be a once in a month kind of trip. Not about conserving energy as much as it was just not spending money.

Keywords: childhood; driving; energy; oil; parents; travel

00:02:20 - What He told His Son About Energy

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Segment Synopsis: Question: And what did you tell my dad about energy? Answer: Shut the door you’ll let all the heat out. By then it was more casual to drive around more. That generation learned about energy in a way that there’s only so much out there, and if you use it up its gone.

Keywords: cost; driving; energy; energy consumption; gasoline; parents

00:03:16 - How Has Energy Changed Since You Were A Child?

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Segment Synopsis: Question: So, how have you seen the way we make and use energy change since your childhood? Answer: In my childhood, the only nuclear energy that was talked about was the atomic bombs. When I was 10 years old, that was only 15 years after the atomic bombs, there wasn’t any nuclear energy yet. I believe that most of our energy was coming from the oil fields of Texas, Oklahoma, and maybe Pennsylvania, and the coal mines of Kentucky and the west. Now energy is thought of on more of a global marketplace

Keywords: atomic energy; atomic weapons; coal mines; energy; global marketplace; oil fields

00:05:19 - 1970's Energy Embargo

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Segment Synopsis: Question: You lived through the increase in gas prices in the 70s. What do you remember about the 1970s energy embargo or why it happened? Answer: Graduated from UW Madison in 1971. Worked for a feed company, and did a ton of driving to farmers. Gas was about 25 cents a gallon at this point. Now it’s about 10x as high. In the early 70s when there was an energy crisis, there were worries that we’d be out of gas, people were lining up at gas stations to top off their tank. Never got to the point where he was staying home b/c there wasn’t gas available. In his lifetime, gas has always been too cheap. Never been a time where people didn’t go somewhere because the price was too high. Thinks that one way to get people to think about conserving fuel would be rationing.

Keywords: 1970's Energy Embargo; costs; driving; gasoline; oil; prices

00:07:11 - Knowledge About Renewable Energy

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Segment Synopsis: Question: When was the first time you heard about renewable energy? Answer: Well I don’t know if we thought of it in those terms, but when I was a kid going to a one-room country school, there were people who would, every year, cut wood to heat home and businesses. That was an ongoing, renewable source of energy. Mother used a clothesline (solar clothes dryer). Didn’t think of it as renewable energy, but it did that job.

Keywords: energy; renewable energy

00:08:53 - Thoughts on Renewable Energy

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Segment Synopsis: Question: What thoughts did you have about renewable energy when you first heard about it? Answer: Discusses the usage of nuclear power, “atomic energy” to replace petroleum in transportation, with the use of electric vehicles. Says that electric vehicles will become more efficient and widespread in grandson’s lifetime. Doesn’t believe we’re quite there yet.

Keywords: atomic energy; electric vehicles; energy; nuclear power; renewable energy

00:11:17 - First Time Hearing About Climate Change

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Segment Synopsis: Question: When was the first time you heard about climate change? Answer: Learning about climate change started slowly, at the University 50 years ago they started talking about it. Science became increasingly convincing. 15-20 years ago, most educated people were accepting the science. Always going to be deniers because the truth is inconvenient.

Keywords: climate change; energy; university

00:13:08 - Changing Thoughts on Climate Change

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Segment Synopsis: Question: How has your understanding about climate changed since you first learned about it? Answer: Global warming is a misleading term. It’s climate change, not warming. Super cold days people will say “so this is global warming, huh?” but in actuality, it’s climate change. Believes weather is changing- more rain events especially. Wetter longer in the spring, earlier in the fall. More hot spells in the fall, warmer winters.

Keywords: climate change; global warming

00:15:25 - Hopes for Future Generations

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Segment Synopsis: Question: What are your hopes for my generation and how we make and use energy? Answer: Feels guilty about handing off a world that’s in poorer shape than how he received it. The USA is going to have to rely on the rest of the world to save us- we’ve gotten used to our lifestyles.

Keywords: United States; energy; generations; guilt; lifestyle changes; politics

00:17:07 - Final Thoughts

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Segment Synopsis: Question: Anything else you’d like to say? Answer: It’s hard to understand how much things have changed. Things haven’t changed in my generation as much as some. Talks about his own great grandmothers’ lives and how different transportation was. “You’ve got your work cut out for ya”

Keywords: change; energy; generation

00:20:08 - End of Interview