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| While James Buchanan was still President (1857-1861) a man name Edwin L. Drake drilled his First Oil Well near Titusville, Pa. on Aug. 27 1859.
With-in 3 years the price of oil went from $20 dollars per barrel to 10¢ per barrel by 1861. Even though he was the first man to pull oil out of the ground, He died a broke man. |
Revelation 9
1 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
2 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.
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The King James translation of the Bible uses the slang term Slime for bitumen (which crude oil is).
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I Am The Oil Industry
I'm a hundred years oil... but I'm a youngster. I have put
the mightiest nation in the world on wheels, in the air, on the sea.
Before I was born, the world was a-slumber. Now that I exist, the world
is alive as never before. If I should die, The world would surely
slumber again, Perhaps wither, and in many ways...die.
Yes, I am might.
I oiled the tanks that fired the cannon that stopped the Hun at St.
Mihiel. I advanced with every dogface that wrested an inch of ground at
Guadal Canal and Iwo Jima. I powered the plane that dropped the bomb a
Hiroshima and I fueled the fleet that crossed the channel to Normandy.
I mixed with American blood that dried an Pork Chop Hill and barren sod
of Korea.
But I'm as humane as I am Mighty. I grease the parts of the iron lung.
I fuel the tractors that work the field that produce the bread that
feeds the hungry. I power the trucks with the beg red cross that fight
disaster. I lubricate the gear that spins the generators that light the
land and I oil the glove that catches the pitch in the World series.
I am freedom, Independence, the American way of life.
I take the savings of the people, blend them with the labor by the
people, and convert them into profits for the people.
I search for oil, and if I'm lucky, I find it...and produce it...and
transport it...and refine it...and sell it. And while profit is my
Motive, Progress is the result.
I'm hundreds of skills and thousands of products and millions of
people. I'm as democratic and law-abiding and public-spirited as
American can make me. What I do, I do for the good of the more than
3,000,000 Americans who own me, the 1,650,000 Americans who work for
me, and the 180,000,000 American customers I serve.
When People hail my merits, I must pass this credit on to the whole of
America, And when people condemn me I must ask them to reassess their
own shortcomings. for I am the people of America, with all their short
coming... With all their greatness.
I am the Oil Industry.
"REPENT"
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads, they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails, they had the power to torment people for five months. 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer). |
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