CSPAN2 Booknotes February 28, 2015
And some genius said you may know this story. What is this stuff that comes out of the ground in pennsylvania and they were fined into kerosene and kerosene replaced whale oil but by the 1890s when the lightbulb came along and cities were switching rapidly to electric light the oil industry with saying what are we going to do . They have this waste product that they couldnt use that they were dumping in the river at night to get rid of it because it was useless and they had to find a place to put it. Fortunately the automobile came along just in time and save the oil industry. So they use this...