A Short History of Oil: 1700-1870 // Whale Oil, Kerosene, Drake Well & Rockefeller Documentary

[@theot4077]

Titusville is the KEY WORD in this video. From this moment on 'COMMERCIAL WHALING' fell to near zero. Crude petrol, and all products there-of saved many whale species 'FROM EXTINCTION'.

[@pikiwiki]

Succinct, articulate and informative. Thank you

[@shjo2778]

They make Rockefeller look like the oil genius

[@ArnoldClarke]

Also, prohibition was to stop ethanol being used as fuel for heating homes and powering cars.

[@shyamsundardhungana2599]

its good to watch...

[@itachiofthesharingan67]

Chinese were making kerosene through the extraction and purification of petroleum , during the Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

[@shjo2778]

Jesus Christ 😅 so white peopl were the ones ass backwards and behind ?

[@RufalinoRufus]

Thanks

[@woody3590]

Very interesting,amazing did not know a Canadian invented Kerosine! Thanks for posting

[@itachiofthesharingan67]

Chinese were making kerosene through the extraction and purification of petroleum

[@surendersingal2192]

Thank you sir, on how oil concept came in from birds , Oceans n fishes.

[@mustaffa1611]

oil does not come from fossils if thats what you are asking or implying.

[@CHAITHANYAkitta]

NICE

[@malcolmwhite6588]

Say this fast with a welsh accent! -“Whale oil beef hooked”!

[@user-yq8li2sn7q]

Eulachon, not Salmon. Your Alaskan Fisherman thanks you.