Oil Boom

 Oil was discovered in Texas by the Hamel brothers. Oil has a big impact on the way we live life today. A short term impact is that it made cars possible. If there was no oil then we wouldn't be able to drive around the way we do today. Henry Ford invented an assemble line to make it easier to create cars. In the assembly line each person had a job and they did the same thing all day. The long term impact oil had on the us is that it makes the us Mobil in ways they never were before, now we use oil for almost everything  because its a natural resource and its cheap.

 Did you know oil is used to make these products too?
- Dresses
- Cd players
- Purses
- Shoes
- Paint

A Map of where there are a lot of oil reserves in the US

Back then when they drilled oil they would first start off by drilling a starter hole, they drill a surface hole to pre-set depth. Then once the meet the pre-set depth they start placing casing pipes in the hole to prevent it from collapsing on itself. lastly they pump mud down a casing pipe to build the hole deeper.

oil is drilled now pretty much the same way it was before 

in 1913 Ford invented the assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile.it made the process of building a car go from more than 12 hours to 2 hours and 30 minutes. In this line each person had a specific job and did that one job the whole time.

Oil consumption in the US

U.S imports in 2007