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The letter was forgotten as, on Aug. 29, 1859, Drake and Uncle Billy and his sons got feverishly busy pumping oil and filling wash tubs and whiskey barrels (why we speak of "barrels" of oil today) with the black liquid.
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Right now, it is the black black oil, which is filling Brown's black hole.
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Congress on Monday directed Bush to stop filling the government's emergency oil supply for six months to try to bring prices down, a move Bush has argued would have little effect.
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Steven Phillips of Exxon Mobil (a board member of Roll Back Malaria) notes that his oil firm makes the pesticide used in bed nets woven in Tanzania and its filling stations could hand them out.
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In the heyday of Russian oil discoveries and rising energy demand, Russia would rake in quite a profit, filling its government coffers with cold hard cash from its energy windfall.
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Established Japanese oil companies cannot easily coax them to do so, because they own only a fifth of the filling stations through which they sell their petrol, and operate almost none.
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