Once upon a time we wrote about the whale oil myth—the mythical notion that due to the free market/exchange, the discovery of petroleum directly saved the whales! This rather romantic notion simply isn’t true; not as an...
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Sarah Simonovich
The Birth of The Petroleum Industry Happend In The USA
Petroleum’s full potential was not seriously explored until the mid 19th century, but Native American’s were aware of oil seeps that oozed crude into streams in Western Pennsylvania for generations. The...
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