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It seems like a simple and direct question. Look in a dictionary and you will find a very specific definition. That definition really doesn't answer the question at all. Ask a chemist, and you will get a very technical answer. Again, the answer would leave most of us wondering. An automobile mechanic would probably give you a very simple and direct answer, telling you it is something you put in the engine of your car. Ask a politician, and there is no telling the kind of answer you might get. Depending on who you ask, the answer will almost always be different. Oil is something, or many things, to all of us. However, I believe oil is much more than any of us fully understand. Oil is the food which allows the world live. Unfortunately, it is also something the world is dangerously dependent on for survival.
As a child, oil was the black gooey stuff that came out of the ground, as well as the dirty fluid my father drained from his car. I can vividly remember the opening to the television show, The Beverly Hillbillies. Jed, the father of the hillbilly family, was out one day hunting for food with his rifle. Missing his target, the bullet entered the ground. Then, the song goes something like this, "And up through the ground came a bubblin' crude. Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea!" The visual in my head was of my mother's china tea cups filled with the dirty fluid drained from my father's car. Somehow, this stuff made Jed a millionaire. Oil can make, even the biggest Texas hillbilly, a Beverly Hills millionaire. Why would my father throw it away?
As I grew a little older, into my early teen years, I moved past my Beverly Hillbilly understanding of oil. I viewed oil as the stuff my father purchased for his car, in quart size bottles, from the auto parts store. Alternatively, I suspect my sister's understanding of oil related to the bottle of gold colored liquid my mother purchased at the grocery store. However, when I started driving, I realized...
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