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The fossil fuel industry says footballs couldn't exist without oil. It's a lie designed to prevent us from imagining a more sustainable world.

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A football disappears from a player’s hand in an Energy Transfer commercial promoting oil and gas. (Source: Screenshot/YouTube).

Last week, The Daily Show highlighted an oil and gas commercial that implied footballs could not exist without fossil fuels.

The ad from pipeline giant Energy Transfer shows a player teeing up a football for a kick, only for the…

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