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Standard Oil Part I

Acquired

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Kerosene Is the New Commodity

For a while, only rich people could basically get oil to burn at night. Most people would just the sun would go down, and then they'd have no light. But like whawals, whale oil, yo fri whaling industry, which isn't that where hathaway of berga hat hathaway of begsir hathaway from but kerosenes way cheaper than whale oil. And it's obviously terrible that we kill whales to harvest the whale oil, like, way cheaper, way more plentiful.

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