![]() ![]() 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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