Gasoline For The Soul : Analysis

When oil was first discovered it was “Discovered of the spindle top oilfield near Beaumont in January 10, 1901 marked the opening of the prosperous phase of the business in Texas.” But not long after discovering in Texas it would soon be discovered in Oklahoma in 1905. Shortly after 1910 more oil was being founded and more was coming out of Texas. By the end of the Progressive Era in 1920’s “Texas was producing 85,000,000 barrels per year with even more dramatic increase

Believe it or not, oil has been a big deal in america.Ever since the colonization up to today. The early American Colonist used oil for lamp propellant and for oiling machines. On August 28 of the year 1859, the Pennsylvania Rock Oil company, before renaming to Seneca Oil Company, first struck oil in the colonies in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The owner of the Seneca Oil company was Colonel Edwin Drake. He called himself a colonel to impress. Edwin Drake was not a real colonel. “He was called “Crazy Drake” because he wasted more than 40,000 dollars from investor’s and his own in a research, that didn’t give results until a year or more after.” Edwin Drake made it possible for the use of a drilling rig on a well successfully. The Seneca Oil produced

In Texas, there is an economic powerhouse that not only runs deep beneath fields of cotton, but also reaches miles beyond the green pastures of cattle. Its multitude of uses in daily life also far outweighs the benefits of technology. This resource, greater than any other in Texas, is oil. In 1866 the first commercial oil well was dug near Nacogdoches, Texas but unfortunately the well came up dry. Thirty years later in 1894 oil was discovered in Corsicana, Texas by accident while a water well was being dug. This was the first economically significant discovery of oil in Texas. On January 10, 1901, Texas was catapulted into the era of oil and gas with the discovery at Spindletop. The Spindletop well, located south of Beaumont produced roughly

When people hear the word oil it is commonly interpreted as gas, but the oil that we drill is not what goes into our cars. The oil that is retrieved from the ground is called crude oil, Oil in its raw natural form and when it becomes refined it is used in plastics, rubber, and gasoline. ”Gasoline is a volatile, flammable liquid obtained from the refinement of petroleum, or crude oil. It was originally discarded as a byproduct of kerosene production.” The first oil well was found and harvested in Titusville, Pennsylvania by a man named Edwin L. Drake, in 1859. The well was about 70 feet deep (How gas). It pumped between 20-40 barrels a day

Rockefeller introduced new techniques that completely reshaped the oil industry as well as how business was run. In 1859, Edwin Drake discovered oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and Rockefeller was quick to foresee a future. He was persuaded that refining oil would bring immense wealth and so he began to sell off his other interests. Around 1863, Rockefeller and several partners entered the booming oil industry by investing in a Cleveland Refinery. During the 19th century, kerosene was in high demand and during the process of refining crude oil to kerosene, there were many byproducts that many saw as waste, but thrifty Rockefeller saw it as gold. Byproducts such as petroleum jelly was sold to medical supply companies, paraffin to candlemakers, and other wastes as paving materials for roads. He kept shipping a plethora of goods, therefore, railroad companies drooled over the prospect of getting his business. Due to the immense use of railroads, Rockefeller demanded discounted rates, or rebates from them. The high cost of transporting his oil to his Cleveland refineries cost 40 cents

On August 28, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake found oil in oil creek Pennsylvania. Oil did not become popular (or a major industry) until the late 1800’s. It was still a great improvement and (in today's time) one of the most important advancements all-time It is important because most everything that is in the world requires oil in order to run properly. Oil fuel our airplanes, cars, and trucks, to heat our homes, and to make products like medicines and plastics. It pollutes our environment. It causes danger to plants and animals d spilled. When the oil spilled n the sea, it caused tremendous danger to the sea animals. Oil helps because after being distilled it causes tarry residue which helps road surfacing, and for roofing. When

Settlers used oil as an illuminant for medicine and as grease for wagons and tools. Rock oil distilled from shale became avaialable as kerosene even before the industrial revolution began. While traveling in Austria, John Austin, A new york merchant, observed an effective, cheap oil lamp and made a model that upgraded kerosene lamps. Soon the u.s rock oil industy boomed as whale oil increased in price owing to the corporation, which was created to develop oil found floating on water near titusville, Pennsylvania, was the pennsylvania rock oil company of conneticut ( later the seneca oil company). Pipelines early became a major consideration in standards drive to gain buisness and profits. Samuel syckel had built a four-mile pipeline from pithole,

During the 19th century there was a rapid growth in industrialization and change in America. “The iron and steel industry spawned new construction materials, the railroads connected the country and the discovery of oil provided a new source of fuel” (John D. Rockefeller, 2015). The discovery of an oil geyser in Spindletop was a paramount cause for the rapid growth of the oil industry. Within a year, oil became the primary fuel in America and became an integral part of the economy. “This state of things is made possible, and is obtaining, solely by and under the power and use of machinery; first in the hands of individual capitalists; then in the hands of companies; and, lastly, by corporations” (Moody, 1883). Industry leader John Rockefeller, was able to build an empire during this period of time and established his company the Standard Oil

However, in 1894 things began to change, the first discovery of oil took the leading role in impacting Texas’s economy. Numerous of oil and gas businesses were opened and transformed Texas by offering a cheaper way to power and fuel the nation. According to the

"William, Gasoline is something they used to use in the capital to fuel their motor contraptions. Some of the bigger cities still use it," Sierra explained to her son. "It's something that's useless in an outer town like ours."

The use of pipelines date back as far as 500BC in China. In those times, the pipelines were made of bamboo, used to separate the salt from the sea water. The United States did not adopt these until much later. Edwin L. Drake drilled his first commercial oil well in the United States near the city Titusville in Pennsylvania; the oil which they nicknamed “rock oil” was then used as a less expensive alternative to whale oil. It was used as lubricant and as fuel for lamps. It was not long after this that it was realized they would need a more cost effective way of transporting the oil from place to place. At the time, Teamsters were using horses and wagons to get the oil to the markets; one barrel going five miles costed more than the entire rail charged to go to New York City. For that reason, the pipeline was created.

Once farmers started getting their hands on kerosene in the 1900’s tractor manufacturers started creating tractors that ran off of kerosene to lessen the cost of fuel. It had a fuel tank that was cut in two; it had one half for kerosene and another half for regular gasoline. they used the gasoline half to start the engine on the machine and warm it up. Once it was running and warmed up the operator can switch the fuel line over to kerosene and the tractor will run off it. Even though kerosene was cheaper it was less efficient. you could cover double with a full tank of gasoline than you could with a full tank of kerosene. the reason was that kerosene did not evaporate as well as gas which caused it to burn faster thus using more fuel.

The national spotlight is dominated today with the debate over how much control should the government have in an individual’s life. With this in mind the question is asked, should the government be allowed to dictate the quality of gasoline that individuals use in their vehicles? Unbeknownst to consumers the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved the sale of E15 gasoline which contains harmfully high levels of ethanol. John Tomlin states, a “recent survey showed that a majority of consumers (95 percent) had not heard of E15 gasoline or the damage it may cause” (1). Is it ethical for the government to make this determination without notifying the public? Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ethical behavior as, “following accepted

unlike new hybrids or alternative-fuel cars more gas engines in junkyards than anything. More gasoline

This is the underground rock that petroleum is taking, from the matter of plants and animals decomposed into oil during these millions of years ago. It accumulated into pools deep underground. They considered it impossible and laughed about the situation. The drilling of the first well was in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1869, and ushered in a new world wide era; the oil age. Drakes drilling operation struck oil 70 feet below the ground. After what he did, petroleum engineering was established because the drill can go below as under 6 miles and the U.S began to rely so much on oil that they started to begin schools and education. The worldwide was devised in the United States in 1914.