Life Without Oil, In Fact, Would Be

The Use Of Refined Petroleum As Fuel, Which Began In The 1850s, Freed Hundreds Of Millions Of People From The Toil Of Centuries, Gave Hundreds Of Millions More A Life Of Ease And Plenty, And, By Allowing Great Cities To Feed Themselves From Every Corner Of The World, Multiplied The Population Of The Earth Fivefold.

A Century Ago, Petroleum - What We Call Oil - Was Just An Obscure Commodity; Today It Is Almost As Vital To Human Existence As Water.

In Rising Financial Markets, The World Is Forever New. The Bull Or Optimist Has No Eyes For Past Or Present, But Only For The Future, Where Streams Of Revenue Play In His Imagination.

Because Bankers Measure Their Self-worth In Money, And Pay Themselves A Lot Of It, They Think They're Fine Fellows And Don't Need To Explain Themselves.

When William The Conqueror Commissioned A Great Survey Of His English Realm At Gloucester In 1085, The Result Was A Work So Thorough, Fair, Dispassionate, And Wide-ranging That It Seemed To The Succeeding Generations To Have Come From Another World.