Granholm Laughing at High Gas Prices Makes Sense in Light of This Music Video She Made a Cameo In
Leah Barkoukis
Posted: Nov 17, 2021 8:00 AM
A 2018 music video about the end of gasoline and fossil fuels that recently resurfaced shows Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm making a cameo.
Discussing how the end of gas-powered vehicles has gone from a pipe dream to a serious goal in a short amount of time, NPR cited advocacy group Coltura and their previous efforts to draw attention to the issue, such as through music videos.
[J]ust a few years ago, its main tools in that fight were things like break-up-themed music videos...
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GASOLINE, GASOLINE (THE WORLD'S AFLAME)")
UNIDENTIFIED SINGER #1: (Singing) We had a good run, but now we're done.
DOMONOSKE: ...And performance art.
MATTHEW METZ: We did what's called the Ghosts of Gasoline - actors that were dressed up in their white bodysuits with hoses and nozzles.
DOMONOSKE: Matthew Metz is the co-executive director of Coltura, and he says art like this got people talking. But when Coltura tried to propose actual laws to end the sale of gas cars, people laughed.
They're not laughing anymore. Coltura helps write legislation now. […]
DOMONOSKE: ...It featured a cameo from a woman with a blonde bob, enthusiastically lip-syncing along about the urgent need to give up gasoline. That was Jennifer Granholm, better known today as the secretary of energy.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GASOLINE, GASOLINE (THE WORLD'S AFLAME)")
UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing) Gasoline, gasoline, I got a new dream. Gasoline, gasoline, I'm going green. (NPR)
Granholm appears around the 1:20 and 2:07 marks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09txc4YaT3M&ab_channel=Colturamore
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2021/11/17/energy-secretary--gas-music-video-n2599208
