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3 questions about oil please help (economics)?

In which 3 states in the usa is oil found?

What was oil first used for and by whom?

In north america where was the oil industry born and in what year?


oil is found in more than three states...texas, oklahoma, and louisiana produce a lot

in NA, oil was first discovered in Pennsylvania in 1859(I think) by accident

Drinks industry must resist David Cameron's meddling on prices

George Osborne spoke, rightly, about the need for consistency if businesses are to thrive in the UK. The Chancellor said he was heartily tired of policymakers constantly moving the business goal posts. Sadly, the goal-post movers still appear to be in the ascendency.

Minimum pricing is anti-competitive, risks breaching single-market rules laid down to allow the UK to thrive in a globalised world and will not achieve what it proposes, namely a reduction in harmful drinking.

When it comes to drink, the market is price inelastic. That is, everyday consumers of alcohol – i.e. not those problem drinkers the Government is supposedly targeting with these plans – are sensitive to cost.

That maintains market discipline, as companies are loathe to put up prices to increase profit levels for fear of losing sales and market share. Minimum pricing would distort this, exaggerating market success of certain beverages and the market failure of others.

Panel on the power of two major oil and gas companies

Robert Dudley (born in 1955) has been Group Chief Executive of BP plc since October 2010. Prior to this appointment and in the wake of the Gulf of ...

The Born Again Car

CA stated that 2% of all cars sold would be zero emissions in 1998, 5% by 2001, and 10% of all cars sold in CA by 2003 had to meet zero emissions standards. Various models of Baker electric cars were being manufactured for sale up to 1915 along with many other electric vehicle models by other carmakers. s tractor that pushed the evolution of the car and truck toward internal combustion engines and away from the blossoming electric industry. s when California law makers mandated that cars sold in CA would have to meet new standards of zero emissions....

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Capital requirements of the oil and gas industry are staggering. ... Many of these problems are born of the unusual nature of the resource that the industry ...

The birth of big business in the United States, 1860-1914, commercial, extractive, and industrial enterprise
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The birth of big business in the United States, 1860-1914, commercial, extractive, and industrial enterprise

A pump was added, and the modern oil industry was born. News of Drake's success set off a wave of drilling by men chasing sudden wealth. The year was 1859, ...

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Has 35 years in petroleum industry, is former president of Shell Research & Development and vice-president of manufacturing for Shell Oil Co. Born and ...

Fossil fuels, oil companies, and indigenous peoples, strategies of multinational oil companies, states, and ethnic minorities : impact on environment, livelihoods, and cultural change
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Fossil fuels, oil companies, and indigenous peoples, strategies of multinational oil companies, states, and ethnic minorities : impact on environment, livelihoods, and cultural change

The second drawback of the ANCSA is that those born after 1971 shall be excluded ... there is a complete dependence on the revenue from the oil industry, ...

Families of Southeastern Georgia
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Families of Southeastern Georgia

Mary Carolyn, born on August 14, 1942; a student at Savannah High School. Mr. Floyd married, second, ... His career in the oil industry began in 1921. ...

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Inflation on certain foodstuffs has risen by a third since 2010
Inflation on certain foodstuffs has risen by a third since 2010 The idea was to end dependence on foreign oil, but the effect has been to push up prices since there is now less land to grow human and animal foodstuff. Financial speculation in New York hasn't helped prices either. In 2007, prices of wheat rose by 80

Middle East revolutions and the fate of the petrodollar
The petrodollar meant that oil had to be bought and sold in US currency, forcing countries to buy dollars in order to purchase the energy demanded for agriculture, transportation, industry — really, every facet of modern life.

A Monkey-Wrenching Environmentalist Goes on Trial in Utah
For their part, the oil and gas industry is pushing hard to convict DeChristopher. "We're a nation of laws," Kathleen Sgamma of the Western Energy Alliance told NPR. "There's a democratic process in place if you don't like what's happening.

Western ND looks at regional water pipeline
By TREVOR BORN AP , The Associated Press - BISMARCK, ND North Dakota's booming oil industry requires huge amounts of water for drilling, a need the state could use to bring clean drinking water to rural towns, backers of a proposed water pipeline

Wednesday Open Thread: Oil Edition
We need oil production and oil refineries NOW. BREAK GROUND – NOW. BUT – Obama is so invested in the "Green/Red Movement" and placating the Enviromental Extremists that he will sacrifice his presidency, and much more importantly OUR ECONOMIC future by