主题：石油为什么叫做石油？ -- 倥偬飞人

今天看到这篇玩意，才知道石油可能是这么叫出来的：美国当年的移民鸡二先生挖盐挖出了副产品，起了个名字叫Rock Oil，那时候没有汽车啥的，所以刚开始是当药卖的，万灵丹牌石油,鸡二先生就此成为美国石油工业之父！，这什么什么之父，来得也太容易了点！

为了扇起物以稀为贵的购买冲动，鸡二还成为最早提出石油危机的人。。。

Colonel Edwin Drake is popularly credited as founding the American petroleum industry. But this is not the case.

It's true that Drake drill the first oil well near Titusville, PA back in 1859. But it was Samuel Kier, inventor and businessman, who is really the grandfather of the American oil industry.

Kier -- a Scotch-Irish immigrant -- owned several salt wells around Livermore and nearby Saltsburg, PA. Kier also held interests in several coal mines, a brickyard, and a pottery factory but it was his salt business that really put food on the table.

In the early 1800s, Kier's salt business was booming. But by the 1840s, after years of mining, a crisis was looming as Kier's salt wells were becoming fouled with petroleum.

At first, Kier simply dumped the then useless oil into a nearby Canal. But after an oil slick caught fire, he was forced to stop. He then decided to look for some way to profit from this otherwise worthless byproduct.

With no formal training in science or chemistry, he began experimenting with several distillates of the crude oil. And in 1848 Kier developed a substance called Rock Oil (a "snake oil" type tonic whose key ingredient was the petroleum from his salt wells) and began selling the liquid as a ‘cure for everything' making him the first person to market petroleum.

Now the really interesting part to this story is this... In an 1855 advertisement for the Rock Oil, Kier prophetically urged customers to buy soon before "this wonderful product is depleted from Nature's laboratory."

Unbeknownst to Kier, these words would be echoed throughout history seemingly as the first hydrocarbon depletion warning.

而且预言，"此物后必大行于世界"

世界石油之父，应该非沈老莫属！

鄜、延境内有石油，旧说“高奴县出脂水”，即此也。生于水际，沙石与泉水相杂，

惘惘而出，土人以雉尾甃之，用采入缶中。颇似淳漆，然之如麻，但烟甚浓，所沾幄幕

皆黑。余疑其烟可用，试扫其煤以为墨，黑光如漆，松墨不及也，遂大为之，其识文为

“延川石液”者是也。此物后必大行于世，自余始为之。盖石油至多，生于地中无穷，

不若松木有时而竭。今齐、鲁间松林尽矣，渐至太行、京西、江南，松山大半皆童矣。

造煤人盖知石烟之利也。石炭烟亦大，墨人衣。余戏为《延州诗》云：“二郎山下雪纷

纷，旋卓穹庐学塞人。化尽素衣冬未老，石烟多似洛阳尘。”

坎坎伐檀兮，置之河之干兮，河水清且涟猗……

应该说发明了河水运原木， 发现了经济树种，提出了河边休闲公园概念。

你看 硕鼠硕鼠 无食我黍 势将去汝 适彼乐土

连对大老鼠都如此客气 不但舍不得打

甚至主动退避让出生存空间

对待其他动物或者是人还能差的了吗

这样的社会不和谐 谁能和谐？

他还是

第一个推行品牌标识CI计划的人：

第一个看多石油工业的分析师：

他要是给高盛打工，那分红。。。啧啧

"然之如麻，但烟甚浓，所沾幄幕皆黑。"

真实的原因是老鼠太大，人不跑就被当了口粮鸟