http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/08/27/150th-anniversary-of-edwin-drakes-first-oil-well-in-pennsylvania/ Commentary on Economics, Information and Human Action Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:58:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/08/27/150th-anniversary-of-edwin-drakes-first-oil-well-in-pennsylvania/#comment-9268 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:26:37 +0000 http://knowledgeproblem.com/?p=5315#comment-9268 I read Madrigal’s “oil field” claim as one of scale; the Canada and Baku sites were not what I think we would recognize as an “oil field”, while Titusville certainly became that.

]]> http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/08/27/150th-anniversary-of-edwin-drakes-first-oil-well-in-pennsylvania/#comment-9257 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:49:42 +0000 http://knowledgeproblem.com/?p=5315#comment-9257 It’s not true that this “was the world’s very first oil field.” There were producing wells in Canada and Baku before Drake’s well, and people had been consuming oil from surface seeps for centuries.

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