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===Petroleum is "cool"===
The API is the producer of a 16-minute video titled 'Fuel-less: you can't be cool without fuel', which was distributed through the [[National Science Teachers Association]]. The film starts with the line "you're not going to believe this, but everything everything I have that's really cool comes from oil!" [http://www.classroom-energy.org<ref name=apice/oil_natural_gas/fuel_less/index.html]. >
The API funds a website called '"classroom energy' [http://www.classroom-energy.org/about_us.html]", which aims to provide teachers and students with materials on '"the vital role of oil and natural gas in modern life.'"<ref name=apice>American Petroleum Institute, Classroom Energy, organizational website, 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140901120237/http://www.classroom-energy.org/index.html Archived] from the original September 1, 2014, accessed June 22, 2021.</ref>
An API memo leaked to the media in 1998 shed some light on the motivation for targeting schools: "Informing teachers/students about uncertainties in climate science will begin to erect barriers against further efforts to impose Kyoto-like measures in the future." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112400789_pf.html]