Maddow writes, ‘’He created and husbanded the exemplar of the industry, Standard Oil, and along the way he helped to popularize the idea of America as the testing ground where the extravagant possibilities and the outsized benefits of free-market capitalism have been proven.’’ Rockefeller’s corporation Standard Oil shipped a million barrels of refined oil in a year, and by 1875, it had taken control of every major refining center in the country. The man who laid the foundation for the oil business as we know it today was John D. However, the United States pioneered the industry by inventing its trade tools, financing, administration, ethic, and reach. Nearly 100 countries from six continents are in the oil and gas business, many of them being in it for a century or more. Today’s drillers pull an average of over 90 million barrels of oil worldwide every day. The first commercially viable gas-powered engine, and the ensuing addiction, were still a few generations away,’’ Maddow comments.

‘’The inhabitants of our planet weren’t exactly starving for more in 1859, or at least didn’t yet know they were. Soon after this discovery, drillers pulled around 2042 gallon barrels of crude oil from the ground on a good day. Oil and gas.’’ She traces the beginnings of the oil and gas industry back to 1859 when the drill operators found ‘’rock oil’’ at a depth of 68 and a half feet. Maddow believes that the same driving force of the above-mentioned events is, ‘’The most powerful, and the least-well-governed major industry in the history of mankind. Get ready to find out more! Beginnings of the oil and gas industry Although it might seem odd at first, there is a thread connecting these events, and in ‘’Blowout,’’ Rachel Maddow discovers what they have in common. Some people might not associate 2010 with earthquakes in Oklahoma, but with Michael Jackson's $1 million memorabilia auction.

Do you remember a big jump in the number of earthquakes in 2010 in Oklahoma? The ground was shaking then almost with the same intensity as in 1969 when scientists detonated a nuclear bomb to launch Project Rulison in Colorado.

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