There is still no alternative to oil
(MI) The Detroit News - What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? Paris, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy and center of finance? Or perhaps Titusville, Pa.
Oil seeping from the ground there was collected for medicinal purposes — until Edwin Drake drilled and 150 years ago found the basis of our world, 69 feet below the surface of Pennsylvania, which oil historian Daniel Yergin calls “the Saudi Arabia of 19th-century oil.” More
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POSTED: Monday, November 23rd, 2009
