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We can blame so much of the horribleness of the world, on this one thing, at this one time. Almost all the bad shit we think of today started here. In 1859.
The Drake Well is a 69.5-foot-deep (21.2 m) oil well in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, the success of which sparked the first oil boom in the United States.
Was that in Oil City, PA?
Nope
in Cherrytree Township, Venango Country, PA.
@corlin I agree… and I traded in my 11-year-old hybrid for an #EV. 40 years of experience in the environmental consulting business gave me a ringside seat to view the legacy of petroleum contamination. #EVsRock