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After the Civil War, petroleum industries made continuous technological advances. Which made it societies key source of energy and lubrication. Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company in Ohio in 1870. Oil exploration grew significantly and to effort to explore for oil would expand to other states and nations over the next decade
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Charles F. Brush developed the world's first windmill that can generate electricity
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Instead of a car that ran on just ethanol, Henry Ford built a car that runs on both ethanol and gasoline.
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Due primarily to automobiles needing petroleum to run, 1950 is the first year that petroleum becomes most consumed