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We all complain about the high price of oil: businessmen worry about the rising cost of petroleum-based raw materials, and politicians fret about the geo-political situations in oil rich countries and the rest of us pay through the nose whenever we fill up at the pump (yes, it has come down a bit, but only after such a huge run-up).But what do we really know about oil? Do you know where petroleum came from? (hint: not dinosaurs). Or that during the early days of Standard Oil, gasoline was so useless that it was dumped in rivers?

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/06/10-things-you-di... 

The U.S. Congress is considering legislation that would require 70 million barrels of crude oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to be released to the open market in an effort to drive down gas prices.

http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/080724-llm-oil-... 

Very few have heard of it, however the company makes a lot of stuff we take for granted.

http://www.rtvanderbilt.com/ 

Very few have heard of it, however the company makes a lot of stuff we take for granted.

http://www.rtvanderbilt.com/