Karl Benz was the German mechanical engineer who designed and in 1885
built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an
internal-combustion engine.
America's first gasoline-powered automobile was the 1891 Lambert car
invented by John W. Lambert.
Oil historians in the USA give credit for the first modern commercial
oil well to Colonel Edwin L. Drake. His well reached a depth of 22m
(72-ft). It was drilled in “Oil Creek” near the town of Titusville,
slightly east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and started producing
oil on August 28,1859. There were no automobiles in those days; the
main market for petroleum was for medicine. It was called Rock Oil and
sold for about $40 a barrel, which is about the same as a barrel of oil
costs today, so it would have been worth a lot of money in 1859.
Iceland has a long tradition of subsistence whaling; whaling of one form or another has been conducted from the island since it became populated more than eleven hundred years ago
whaling has been a part of the Icelandic culture since it was settled by Scandinavians and other Nordic peoples in the 9th century. By 1915, 17,000 whales had been taken from Icelandic waters
In over 1100 years of whaling whose oil, by the way, provided oil for lamps, we haven't exausted the species.
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Anyone want to take a shot at what is going on here? Something is not right here and it is time to do something about it.
117 yrs of autos and 149 yrs of comercial oil.
Mabey we are all being duped and should be asking some different kinds of questions. I find it hard to believe that we have used up the whole global oil supply in this short time frame. Now I hope I am not the only one that is seeing something wrong here.
uhm well, ocean bottoms ?
I don't know what you mean really.
But the oil we use for most industrial purposes comes from deep in the ground.
Iceland has very few people. The few I have met (on airports) seemed grumpy, because they were not allowed to have alcohol.
What does this have to do with anything? Icelanders, even though grumpy, are few in number. Iceland is a small city, in extreme climate, and we can take advantage from their knowledge.
So I think it is a contribution, but to generalize from Iceland to, for example, Brazil or China, is not a useful thing.
No we can't fix the mineral oil problem by hunting whales
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