AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
2min chapter
Can we stop oil?
The Inquiry
The History of Oil in the Modern Era
The world is consuming 100 million barrels of oil a day. That's about 10 times what it consumed in 1950. The birth of the commercial production of oil was marked over a century and a half ago, with the discovery of reserves in eastern Pennsylvania in the 1860s. For the first 50 or 60 years of the oil industry from the mid-19th century up to the beginning of the 20th century, most of the world's oil was produced and indeed consumed within the United States.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode