**The Evolution of Oil Drilling: From Conductor Pipes to Alternative Fuels**

Drake and his crew used conductor pipes in 10-foot segments to drill into the earth, a revolutionary innovation that paved the way for modern oil drilling. The pipes prevented holes from collapsing, allowing workers to drill deeper than ever before.

On August 27th, 1859, Drake and his crew reached a depth of 69 feet, a milestone that marked the beginning of a new era in oil exploration. Despite the challenges they faced, including hecklers who showed up to disrupt their work, Drake persevered and continued to drill.

The next day, the first operator to show up on site looked down at the 69-foot crevasse and spotted a stream of crude oil bubbling up from below. "Bingo!" he exclaimed, marking the discovery of black gold.

Drake's well produced 25 barrels of oil per day, and by 1872, the entire Oil Creek area was producing an astonishing 15,900 barrels per day. The region became a thriving industrial hub, with kerosene production becoming the priority until automobile manufacturers started producing gasoline engines.

Gasoline production has been a cheap fuel source for many years, but its cost can vary greatly depending on where you live. In the United States, a gallon of gas costs around $1.85, which is equivalent to 1.85% of the daily income of an average American. However, in other countries, such as Niger and India, the cost of gasoline can be significantly higher.

The cost of producing a barrel of gasoline varies widely depending on factors such as crude oil availability, taxes, subsidies, and transportation costs. According to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the average price of gasoline around the world is around $1.15 per liter. However, this figure can range from as low as $0.35 per liter in Western Russia to over $6.00 per liter in some African countries.

Despite its benefits, including being biodegradable and having a better energy balance than traditional gasoline, ethanol has several drawbacks. For example, it corrodes steel, making it harder to ship, and is not super cost-effective.

Alternative fuels, such as diesel, biodiesel, and ethanol, have been researched and utilized for many years. Diesel engines are a viable alternative to gasoline, but they require high amounts of pressure to operate, which makes them costly to produce. Biodiesel, on the other hand, has more potential energy than diesel, but its production can also pollute more.

Ethanol is often used as an additive to gasoline, cutting it with ethanol. This has several advantages over traditional gasoline, including being biodegradable and having a better energy balance. However, ethanol can corrode steel, making it harder to ship, and is not super cost-effective.

The biggest problem with alternative fuels, however, is that they are still a solution to a much bigger problem: our reliance on fossil fuels. If we want to keep living in the world we enjoy, we need to find a way to stop polluting so much. The only true solution is to use 100% renewable energy.

In conclusion, the evolution of oil drilling has come a long way since Drake's innovative use of conductor pipes. While alternative fuels offer many benefits, they still have their drawbacks. Ultimately, our future depends on finding a cleaner, more sustainable way to power our lives.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ena stubborn railroad man in Pennsylvania spent years digging a hole as learing crowds yelled and ridiculed him he eventually dug deep enough to silence his haters and changed the course of history around the world 168 years later I'm at the gas station filling up my tank and something occurs to me why do we still use gasoline why is no other fuel source as widely used the nozzle latch clicked and my tank was full but I was full of nothing but questions why is gasoline the fuel of our society I think this is a question a lot deeper than it seems let's get something clear up top gasoline isn't the be-all end-all there are other fuel types commonly used like diesel biodiesel natural gas and Red Bull but while the margins are growing gas is still King on any given day the world uses around a hundred million barrels of gasoline that's over four billion gallons nowadays we turn crude oil into many different products like gasoline polyester and polyurethane but many years ago it was mainly processed to make kerosene for oil lamps and it's time before electric lights manufacturing the lamp fuel was big business everybody had kerosene lamps gasoline was just a byproduct of kerosene production and was used as a cleaning agent or just simply thrown away after its first patent in 1853 became the first material to be chemically extracted on a commercial scale it isn't exactly easy to get that black stuff out of the earth it's not like there's just a hose coming out of a rock an entire industry had to evolve to develop oil drilling and purification techniques process of extracting oil from the earth we know nowadays was pioneered by a railroad man hired by a kerosene company a little more than 150 years ago Pennsylvania 1858 a conductor an all-round railroad guy named Edwin Drake was hired by the Seneca oil company to investigate suspected oil reserve the potential oil represented millions of dollars in kerosene if it proved fruitful his mission was to extract oil from any reserves he found but the problem was nothing like that had ever been done before he bought a drill and a steam engine to power the drill and headed out to oil creek to start drilling they drilled through loose gravel and at around 16 feet down the hole started collapsing other workers despaired but Drake was like keep going use some iron pipes and drive him down there like they were trained jeez I think this guy is obsessed with trains and thus conductor pipes were born used in 10-foot segments the pipes prevented the hole she was collapsing and allowed workers to drill deeper than ever before at 32 feet down they hit bedrock after that drilling slowed down significantly the project started seeming more and more futile it got so stupid that at one point people would show up to heckle Drake and his crew he didn't let it get to him and nevertheless he persisted and on August 27th 1859 Drake and his crew reached a depth of 69 feet he was like nice and so they all went home and ate pretzels wise pretzels I mentioned the next day the drill operator was the first one to show up on site he looked down all 69 feet of the crevasse and sod that sweet crude oil bubbling up in the hole bingo despite how long it took Drake to accomplish his drill his innovative conductor pipe revolutionized oil drilling the segmented pipes allow the steam drill to reach levels that were previously unimaginable Drake's well produced 25 barrels of oil a day and by 1872 the whole oil Creek area was producing fifteen point nine thousand barrels a day kerosene production was the priority until automobile manufacturers started producing gasoline engines nowadays we use gas because it's still one of the cheapest fuel sources to produce a gallon of gas cost less than a gallon of milk in the US I use milk as my universal cost standard Europeans pay a pretty penny their gas with the exception of Western Russia who pays around 273 a gallon the countries that pay the least for gas are the countries that have the most access to it might be cheap but that doesn't mean that gas is a four in the US the average daily income is $170 so a gallon of gas is one point eight five percent of the daily income even though Nigerians pay 157 gallon that's 30 percent of their daily income people in India get hit the hardest they pay an average of 477 a gallon which is 77 percent of their daily average income the cost of producing a barrel of gasoline around the world is just a diverse and differs because of different factors like the availability of crude oil taxes subsidies ease of transport and production later so gas is cheap and makes the zoom zoom and a poom-poom but it's hard to deny that's changing our climate at what point do we take responsibility and faze gasoline out alternative fuels have been researched and utilized for as long as engines have been around diesel is a viable alternative gas although it is derived from crude oil of gases it has more potential energy which requires less of it to go a greater distance biodiesel is even better because it doesn't require crude oils to produce it's made by chemically reacting lipids or fats with alcohol which means that anything from coffee grounds to human flesh can be used to produce biofuels there are a couple of downsides to diesel though it pollutes more than gasoline and because diesel engines require high amounts of pressure to perform engines are costly to produce ethanol has been praised as a field that will free us from our gasoline addition pure ethanol engines don't exist outside of the racetrack so ethanol is used as an additive to gasoline cutting gas with ethanol has advantages over pure gasoline such as being biodegradable polluting less and having a better energy balance ethanol isn't perfect though for what it corrodes steel making it harder the ship and it's not super cost-effective and land that is used to grow corn or sugarcane for ethanol could be used to grow food which some people say is more important than gas the biggest problem though is that ethanol is a temporary solution to a much bigger problem if we want to keep living in the world we enjoy we're gonna have to find a way to stop polluting so much alternative fuels are great but even the best ones still pollute the only true solutions of free our selves from our gasoline addictions to use 100% renewable energy we look at the issues in the car world that affect you every week you're on real house so hit that yellow subscribe button right there while you're at it check out this episode of wheelhouse right here and check out this sick episode of up-to-speed right around here be nice see you next timea stubborn railroad man in Pennsylvania spent years digging a hole as learing crowds yelled and ridiculed him he eventually dug deep enough to silence his haters and changed the course of history around the world 168 years later I'm at the gas station filling up my tank and something occurs to me why do we still use gasoline why is no other fuel source as widely used the nozzle latch clicked and my tank was full but I was full of nothing but questions why is gasoline the fuel of our society I think this is a question a lot deeper than it seems let's get something clear up top gasoline isn't the be-all end-all there are other fuel types commonly used like diesel biodiesel natural gas and Red Bull but while the margins are growing gas is still King on any given day the world uses around a hundred million barrels of gasoline that's over four billion gallons nowadays we turn crude oil into many different products like gasoline polyester and polyurethane but many years ago it was mainly processed to make kerosene for oil lamps and it's time before electric lights manufacturing the lamp fuel was big business everybody had kerosene lamps gasoline was just a byproduct of kerosene production and was used as a cleaning agent or just simply thrown away after its first patent in 1853 became the first material to be chemically extracted on a commercial scale it isn't exactly easy to get that black stuff out of the earth it's not like there's just a hose coming out of a rock an entire industry had to evolve to develop oil drilling and purification techniques process of extracting oil from the earth we know nowadays was pioneered by a railroad man hired by a kerosene company a little more than 150 years ago Pennsylvania 1858 a conductor an all-round railroad guy named Edwin Drake was hired by the Seneca oil company to investigate suspected oil reserve the potential oil represented millions of dollars in kerosene if it proved fruitful his mission was to extract oil from any reserves he found but the problem was nothing like that had ever been done before he bought a drill and a steam engine to power the drill and headed out to oil creek to start drilling they drilled through loose gravel and at around 16 feet down the hole started collapsing other workers despaired but Drake was like keep going use some iron pipes and drive him down there like they were trained jeez I think this guy is obsessed with trains and thus conductor pipes were born used in 10-foot segments the pipes prevented the hole she was collapsing and allowed workers to drill deeper than ever before at 32 feet down they hit bedrock after that drilling slowed down significantly the project started seeming more and more futile it got so stupid that at one point people would show up to heckle Drake and his crew he didn't let it get to him and nevertheless he persisted and on August 27th 1859 Drake and his crew reached a depth of 69 feet he was like nice and so they all went home and ate pretzels wise pretzels I mentioned the next day the drill operator was the first one to show up on site he looked down all 69 feet of the crevasse and sod that sweet crude oil bubbling up in the hole bingo despite how long it took Drake to accomplish his drill his innovative conductor pipe revolutionized oil drilling the segmented pipes allow the steam drill to reach levels that were previously unimaginable Drake's well produced 25 barrels of oil a day and by 1872 the whole oil Creek area was producing fifteen point nine thousand barrels a day kerosene production was the priority until automobile manufacturers started producing gasoline engines nowadays we use gas because it's still one of the cheapest fuel sources to produce a gallon of gas cost less than a gallon of milk in the US I use milk as my universal cost standard Europeans pay a pretty penny their gas with the exception of Western Russia who pays around 273 a gallon the countries that pay the least for gas are the countries that have the most access to it might be cheap but that doesn't mean that gas is a four in the US the average daily income is $170 so a gallon of gas is one point eight five percent of the daily income even though Nigerians pay 157 gallon that's 30 percent of their daily income people in India get hit the hardest they pay an average of 477 a gallon which is 77 percent of their daily average income the cost of producing a barrel of gasoline around the world is just a diverse and differs because of different factors like the availability of crude oil taxes subsidies ease of transport and production later so gas is cheap and makes the zoom zoom and a poom-poom but it's hard to deny that's changing our climate at what point do we take responsibility and faze gasoline out alternative fuels have been researched and utilized for as long as engines have been around diesel is a viable alternative gas although it is derived from crude oil of gases it has more potential energy which requires less of it to go a greater distance biodiesel is even better because it doesn't require crude oils to produce it's made by chemically reacting lipids or fats with alcohol which means that anything from coffee grounds to human flesh can be used to produce biofuels there are a couple of downsides to diesel though it pollutes more than gasoline and because diesel engines require high amounts of pressure to perform engines are costly to produce ethanol has been praised as a field that will free us from our gasoline addition pure ethanol engines don't exist outside of the racetrack so ethanol is used as an additive to gasoline cutting gas with ethanol has advantages over pure gasoline such as being biodegradable polluting less and having a better energy balance ethanol isn't perfect though for what it corrodes steel making it harder the ship and it's not super cost-effective and land that is used to grow corn or sugarcane for ethanol could be used to grow food which some people say is more important than gas the biggest problem though is that ethanol is a temporary solution to a much bigger problem if we want to keep living in the world we enjoy we're gonna have to find a way to stop polluting so much alternative fuels are great but even the best ones still pollute the only true solutions of free our selves from our gasoline addictions to use 100% renewable energy we look at the issues in the car world that affect you every week you're on real house so hit that yellow subscribe button right there while you're at it check out this episode of wheelhouse right here and check out this sick episode of up-to-speed right around here be nice see you next time