A closer look
Asphalt roads completely dominate the modern landscape but are technically just massive rivers of highly refined sludge scraped directly from the bottom of oil barrels. When petroleum companies finish extracting all the expensive gasoline and jet fuel from crude oil, they simply mix the leftover toxic black goo with crushed rocks and cheerfully pave over our beautiful natural ecosystems. We actively romanticize the classic American road trip while driving straight down a thousand-mile strip of repurposed industrial waste that actively melts and destroys our tires during hot summer afternoons. It is the ultimate capitalist recycling program, taking the most useless and environmentally hazardous byproduct of the fossil fuel industry and aggressively convincing local governments to pay billions of dollars to smear it everywhere. So enjoy the smooth ride on the interstate, comfortably knowing you are cruising securely on top of millions of tons of hardened toxic syrup
