161 years of oil, and we’re still digging
August 27th marks the 161st anniversary of the first oil well strike in the United States. Let’s examine a brief history of black-gold.
4 min readSep 1, 2020
If we never struck oil in the 19th century, where would be? Perhaps we’d be riding our horses to work. On the other hand, perhaps we would be running planes on water by now and taking day trips to the Moon.
