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As time progressed, the United State’s dependency for foreign oil has tremendously grown and is showing no sign of ceasing anytime soon. You may even say that America is addicted to oil. Our thirst
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U.S. Oil Dependency By Demarcus Pringle Saginaw Career Complex 2102 Weiss Street Saginaw, Michigan 48602 (989) 399-6150 Five Pages Mrs. Cheri Wilson, Advisor Historical Review The first successful oil well was built by James Miller Williams in North America on a deposit located near the present-day towns of Oil Springs and Petrolia. The Tripp brothers first recognized the beds in 1851. After failing to develop their find, Williams jumped on the chance to purchase the wells. In his first two years, Williams pumped fifteen hundred m³ of crude oil. He then began the first integrated oil company; exploring, drilling and refining the oil into finished products. "The Canada Oil Company," he decided to call it. These fields supplied ninety percent of the oil consumed in Canada and Petrolia for the next fifty years. By the turn of the century, it began to slow down. As the Petrolia oil rush hit a plateau and came to...
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