Kerosene

I had my first tiff with Pete when I had been there nearly a fortnight.

Kerosene had given out.

The oil man had omitted to call as usual, and Mrs. Searle, the housekeeper, only made me aware of the deficiency at suppertime.

After the meal, I ordered Peter to hitch up and drive down to the village to get it.

And that's exactly what Rockefeller did.

Kerosene went from about 58 cents a gallon to about 8 cents over the life of Standard Oil.

That's an enormous material improvement for ordinary households.

Revisionists point to that and say, you call that robbery? Edward Atkinson calculated Vanderbilt made 14 cents profit per barrel of flour shipped while saving consumers $2.75.

The falling prices were real.

$0.14 profit per barrel of flour.

Kerosene from $0.58 to $0.08.

The material improvement was real.

I had my first tiff with Pete when I had been there nearly a fortnight.

Kerosene had given out.

The oil man had omitted to call as usual, and Mrs. Searle, the housekeeper, only made me aware of the deficiency at supper time.

After the meal, I ordered Peter to hitch up and drive down to the village to get it.

At the time, electricity was seen as unstable, dangerous, and there was a big pushback.

Kerosene had become popular around that time, and before that, we used well oil and lard to power light in our homes.

So the idea that electricity was a major issue is just surprising.

But electricity in our power grid system is relatively new.

It started with lamps.

Kerosene, that was the product.

That was the entire industry.

You drilled a hole in Pennsylvania so somebody in Ohio could... read after dinner.

Number one, we got a new number one song on Billboard Rock, and it's the first time an all-Mexican and all-woman band hit it with the warning.

Kerosene hitting number one.

Those are some talented sisters.

Dude, this was so cool.

You see, this is where we're going to disagree.

Kerosene is the word, sorry.

Kerosene.

That's on the Wesley Ward.

He's just bought loads of that.