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The Chinese refined crude oil for lighting and heating around 2000 BC
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The Arabs and Persians discovered that petroleum could be mixed into greek fire a napalm of its day.
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Coal is discovered near Richmond, Virginia.
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Through his experiments, Ben Franklin discovers electricity.
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James Watts invents the steam engine which requires coal to power it.
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Samuel Morey invents an engine that runs on ethanol and turpentine.
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Oil is discovered in Northwest Pennsylvania by Edwin Drake.
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Automobiles are started to be mass produced and demand for gas increases.
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For the first time nuclear energy produced more electricity than oil in the united states.
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There was explosion and fire occurred on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil leaked from the unfinished well into the ocean for months.
