From our friends at Set America Free:

150 years of oil. What's next?

"One hundred and fifty years ago last Thursday, in the sleepy lumber town of Titusville, Pennsylvania, 'Colonel' Edwin Drake was persistently hammering a pipe into the ground in search of a replacement for depleting whale oil as a fuel for lamps. At a depth of 69 feet below ground he finally struck oil, and the world changed forever." Oil has been both a blessing and a curse for humanity. On its 150th birthday, at the same time as we remember how much of our modern society was enabled by oil, we should also consider the risks associated with its virtual monopoly over transportation fuel.

Click to read Gal Luft's Houston Chronicle essay <http://srv.ezinedirector.net/?n=3146493&s=84873415> on this important anniversary.