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Thousands of tanks had rolled back and forth over the gravelly rock of Libya during WWII, in the titanic desert struggle between Germans and the British. And it was there that Rommel's forces chronically short of fuel, had ultimately been overwhelmed. Neither side knew that, even as their fuel gauges were falling, they were fighting at times only a hundred miles or so from one of the worlds great reserves of oil.

Americas share of the world export trade in illuminating oil fell from 78% in 1888 to 71% in 1891, while the Russian share rose from 22 % to 29 %

A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Why aren't we all like that old bird?

1881: The mysterious figure of John D. Rockefeller could no longer maintain his invisibility. In the Oil Regions, mothers would warn their children, "Rockefeller will get you if you don't mind".