The History Of The Pennsylvania Oil Boom And Petroleum Industry

I am aware that it is probably close to their shared border. But, how in the hell, with the american military in that country, spy satellites watching Iran troop movements, the Iraqis and/or Kurds in the region protecting their assets, do Iranian troops make such a daring and apparantly successful move into territory?

Somebody was asleep on the Iraqi side. The Iranians have a history of quick surprise grabs. A while ago they grabbed a British ship in the Gulf.

i heard that oil makes it grow faster.. i’m not talking hair oil either. i heard olive oil, but would canola oil or vegetable oil work?

Olive oil is the best ! It just takes time for your hair to grow faster . You cant just get anything right off and your hair will grow longer in like a week . I use some oil from Doo Grow . You can get it from Sallys .

This latest news wire says it all. "Iranian security forces seized oil well in southern Iraq, two senior Iraqi government officials say; Iran denies it."

I agree with you, lets boycott Iraq.lol.

I am trying to make Brownies out of box, but I need to use butter…
the box calls for 2/3 cup of vegetable oil, but i am adding a stick of butter.
can i use the butter as a substitute? or will the fat content make the brownies bad?
and if i am able to substitute, is there a ratio of where butter and vegetable oil equal?

Yes, butter is delicious and I have been known to substitute it on purpose!

Melt the butter first, and remember that 1 stick = 1/2 cup of butter…so do the math and figure out what 2/3 cup of butter equals.

A helpful trick is to remember that butter sticks are divided into 8 tablespoons…and there are 16 tablespoons in a cup, so you would need a little over 10 tablespoons to make up 2/3 cup of butter.

Good job on using the butter. It will make your brownies taste much more home-made!

They say you should change your oil every 3,000 miles. What if it takes you almost six months to drive 3,000 miles. Should you change your oil based on an experation date? Does engine oil go bad in six months?

Engine oil has NO expiration date. What you have to consider is HOW much you drive and WHAT grade of oil you use.

The general rule states: "3 months or every 3,000 miles". This is not really the common case anymore if you are using a higher grade synthetic or synthetic-blend oil. There are still certain money/profit-hungry businesses that like to feed off that old belief……….yet, progress in technology is prevailing and synthetics are winning.

Check out some websites for AMSOIL and REDLINE. Do some online comparisons of oils. The "Instant Oil Change" places are FOS if they are telling you that you need to change your FULL SYNTHETIC oil every 3 months.

Let’s look at the facts. Nothing else. No rhetoric. The British colonize Palestine and neighboring Middle East territories in the late-1800’s/early-to-mid-1900’s. Small amounts of Jewish Zionists from Europeh move there in between 1903 and 1948. After WWII, many Jews felt unwelcomed and hated in Europe (especially Germany). Even though the Soviets ironically opposed the bourgeois passing their agenda, the Soviets saw Jews as a disproportionate bourgeois they’d gladly get rid of. The primary winners of WWII (U.S., U.K) knew oil would be a big commodity post-WWII (baby boom, high way construction) so it’d be important to have an ally in the Middle East. Britain knew the days in colonialism were numbered and it’d be too costly extensively maintaining military presence internationally. So why not turn it over to an a new ally? This was all while not recognizing that the indigenous population (the Palestinians) weren’t regarded for. Wouldn’t this be similar to the English pushing aside the Native Americans in colonial America? Wouldn’t it be like the bank telling you to move out of your house while a guy a couple blocks down could have it for free? Am I wrong about any of the facts I’ve stated?

The ironic thing is most Israeli Jews would admit and willingly tell you everything I just did. It is just a matter of greedy politicians trying to protect their own interests. Most people in the world acknowledge this the same. People in America simply don’t recognize the contradictions and are brainwashed by their media and corrupt elite who structure their education system to keep it that way.
Wasn’t the U.N. the same organization that declared Zionism a form of racism for like two decades? You’re going to have to do better than that professor. Saying an organization says something is useless. The U.N. told the U.S. not to invade Iraq. What good did that do? Please answer directly yourself. You didn’t answer the issue regarding the Palestinians. Tell you what. If you tell me that it was ethical for the Europeans to take the Native Americans lands, at least I’ll know where you stand. Otherwise, you seem hypocritical.
How exactly were the Jewish people indigenous to there 3,000 years ago? Most Israeli’s descend from Ashkenazi Jews who are indigenous to the Rhineland of Germany. And other parts of Europe. Migration always leads to intermingling with various indigenous populations too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85jSgzs9-nU&feature=related

Gino – Please watch this video or similar ones on Youtube.
Gino’s mom – I’d disagree. Jews have lived amongst all peoples for centuries and continue to do so. There is nothing supporting why they’d need a state. Hypothetically, even if they did, why should it come at the mercy of another people? Don’t you think the descendants of Holocaust surviving European Jews know themselves the horrors of being mistreated? Israeli Jews know these contradictions. They’re forced to live it every day because of their greedy politicians.
Why couldn’t have they stayed in Europe? I could see the logic of saying why in the late-1940’s you may have not wanted to. Who would have predicted more stability? Perhaps Europeans (mainly the British wanted Jews out of Europe bad enough they’d willingly deprive of their developing humane standards? If they felt that strongly, they should have just provided them a lowly populated European plot of land. I understand the Immigration Act of 1924 was still existent in the U.S. through 1965 which would have blockaded Jewish European immigration. Some argue that it was an Anti-Semitic policy. Some Jews would have saw becoming American as losing their Jewishness and a dipping of culture by migrating to the intellectually barren (I’m American telling you that).
By the way, you’re English is quite good for a Belgian.
The Palestinians wouldn’t argue that the indigenous Jews have a right to be there. They existed in harmony for centuries. You can’t bring in someone who is only the descendants of someone in theory and not even connected to them and say they are the same though. It’d be like a bunch of Americans moving to England to say telling Britons to get out. And that’d only be in theory as their colonial descendant rather than literal one.
Honestly, I don’t think it is justifiable nor ethical for any Israeli presence to be there. A Palestinian state should be fully established while Jews having the voluntary option of remaining there. As the Jewish Rabbi mentioning in that Youtube video, whites weren’t being killed in South Africa once Apartheid ended. There should be some U.N. military presence there to oversee what is going on in the beginning. If Israeli Jews don’t want to remain, they should leave. Perhaps neutral territories like Jerusalem should be designated as world property under the U.N. or similar to that of the Vatican State except ”religiousless” to serve all religions.
”Those Jews converted what was the sinkhole of the Ottoman empire in desirable real estate.”

This is a bias belief that you’ve probably received from western propaganda. While all Israeli real estate wasn’t and still may not be valuable, there are certain places (ex. Jerusalem) that are considered religiously sacred that is worth a lot. I understand Israeli’s helped make it more tourist friendly. Regardless, it wasn’t for European Jews, nor the Americans, English or French to decide how a people who’ve lived in a place for a long time to operate.
”I understand the Palestinians want a piece of land to call their own. But those same Palestinians should realize that this can only be achieved through negotiations, and not by force of arms. Even in the unlikely case they would win, you end up with another set of terrorists who want their land back.”

You’re jumping to square two without fully dealing with square one. I’m asking you what ethical explanation is there for Israel to exist as a state? There isn’t. And until this is confronted, the next steps are useless. As I’ve mentioned, the Jewish people are always politically divided and have various opinions. The current state Israel is operating in will not be what it is in one or two generations. And it won’t be due to American or international groups telling them what to do. A younger generation will create a more ethical code.
”Love it or hate it, the Jews did come from Judea, Palestine, Israel – whatever you call it.”

Josh – You’re not answering the question in a relevant manner. I am asking the ethics of it. Ashkenazi Jews (the predominant Israeli Jewish population) are not the indigenous descendants of people of that region. They’re indigenous to the European continent. Ashkenazi Jews were the ones who created the Zionist movement and the U.S. and U.K. were the ones who made it possible.

Even if they were the descendants of such, which they aren’t, it wouldn’t justify oppressing a people who’ve been living there far longer and more recently based on their own religious book. With that being said, most Jews don’t actually quote the Torah as their logical decision making in life. Many Israeli Jews are Atheist and Agnostic. And unlike Americans who go into a fit about this, the Jewish people (including Ashkenazis) are a culture and ethnicity and define themselves as such.
”Before the Balfour declaration, they were offered Uganda. Imagine what would have happened if they had accepted that offer….”

If it were a part of Uganda where few people lived, perhaps it wouldn’t be so bad. That obviously wouldn’t have been economically desirable for Jews nor Europeans. Nor would have it been fair to Ugandans either. For that matter too, Uganda is one of the smaller African countries. That would have been a mess just like this. If the Europeans believed the Jews should have a state, they should have secluded land for them in Europe. In all reality though, the European Jews didn’t need their own state as they never had one. If they didn’t feel comfortable in Europe, they could have moved abroad.
Any argument you make pass directly confronting the ethics of a European population migrating en masse to modern day Israeli land and kicking aside the Palestinians is not a valuable one in this question. I don’t want to hear the rhetoric of what may or may not have occurred in Arab nationalism. Who’d think that modernly developed European countries during the early-to-mid twentieth century would exterminate 2/3 of their Jewish population? Arabs and Jews have lived in harmony for centuries and would have continued to if it weren’t for American and British greed, and delusional biased Zionists.
The Angels – So you’re argument is the Palestinian people aren’t worth regarding for because they trace origin to a word you claim couldn’t be pronounced in Arabic? This is assuming you even speak a degree of Arabic. With all due respect, that is a crappy base of an argument. The difference between that of Israel and Palestine as opposed to Syria and Lebanon is that the indigenous populations of Syria and Lebanon still exist without European colonial presence of telling them what to do. Israeli in it’s own respect is a European colonizer – even if not directly from one European nation, because it a country with descendants from and operates on western political philosophy.
I’d give you that the Palestinian identity became more developed due to chaos. It doesn’t change the fact they were the people live there before and hundreds of thousands of years though. I don’t see how claiming Ashkenazi Jews – indigenous European Jews, have relevance to that. Like I said, it was just a matter of needing a home to go to. They didn’t provide it for themselves. The British and Americans used and gave into selfish Zionists because of their own economic benefit.
Any argument you make pass directly confronting the ethics of a European population migrating en masse to modern day Israeli land and kicking aside the Palestinians is not a valuable one in this question. I don’t want to hear the rhetoric of what may or may not have occurred in Arab nationalism. Who’d think that modernly developed European countries during the early-to-mid twentieth century would exterminate 2/3 of their Jewish population? Arabs and Jews have lived in harmony for centuries and would have continued to if it weren’t for American and British greed, and delusional biased Zionists.
What gives them the right to have a state in a place where they didn’t? Was the Ottoman Empire exactly there state? Did Anti-Semitism not occur under their rule? Why do you just assume Arabs would have went all out on Jews? They have nothing about the Jewish religion nor the Jewish people outside of politicking. Whether or not you have logic regarding politics, Palestinians attacking Israelis is an act of politicking. Basic history could show you Christians have had it out for Jews and Muslims. This is why I said no rhetoric.
SJC – I can honestly tell you are the laziest or slowest person who’ve answered on here. Either you didn’t read anything I wrote. Or the others for that matter. Or you simply are spewing out pro-Zionist garbage that you can think of for 2 points. I asked for ethical. You’re going on about the aftermath. That is rhetorical, political and irrelevant to the structure of the question which I explicitly asked for you not to do in the first few sentences. You’re going on about what the Palestinians have done (even without recognizing inhumane Israel acts too). When something occurs, both sides will fight. That isn’t what I’m disputing. What I’m disputing is the root and origin of the creation of the state of Israel. The majority of Israeli Jews would tell you everything I just told you and probably in greater detail. I see it is easier to talk to a bunch of barren Americans who couldn’t tell the difference between their hand and foot though.
You know what is really sad? And I mean really sad? There were people on here who answered like 2-3 sentences that required absolutely no intelligence that got lots of thumbs up. Probably the crowd that spends a little too much on Yahoo. Honestly, what ever your political view is, I respect. This wasn’t supposed to be a political discussion. I explicitly said that. But intellectual capacity on here was rather low. A few of you gave really good responses. But when you got one girl directly saying they’re too lazy to answer a question even while I said not to if that is what you’re going to do, that is embarrassing. It actually shows her to quite possibly have a mental disability. If she does, than I guess I can’t blame her.

What is funny though is that any pro-Zionist message even if short and vague seemed to get many thumbs up. And any anti-Zionist or even neutral post seemed to get lots of thumbs down. A predominantly American and intellectually barren crowd at it’s finest, huh?

certainly it was not ethical .there is nothing ethical in occupation
MR warren with all my respect teaching Geography and History of his own
any reliable source will show that Palestinians were the native inhabitants of the land, who have always been there. Any close look to Palestine’s history or geography will reveal that there were hundreds of Palestinian cities and villages that date back to thousands of years, many even to dates before Jewish existence.

As for references, I will provide only two here. The first one is from an Jewish site (often referred to by pro-Israelis). It clearly shows that for hundreds of years, the population of Palestine had less than 10% Jewish component. It only started to exceed this percentage after the Balfour declaration in 1917, when Britain opened the door for massive Jewish immigration to Palestine. You will also notice that the Arab population in the part of Palestine that is now called Israel drops from 70% in 1946 to only 17.9% in 1948. This sharp drop was a direct result of a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign by Zionists to empty the land from the Palestinians. In international law this is called a crime against humanity.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou…

The second reference is from Wikipedia showing population of Palestine from 1922 to 1945. The data here agrees closely with that in the above site. It shows that Jewish annual population growth rate during that period was 8.6%, which can be this high only through massive immigration. On the other hand the Arab population growth rate during the same period was only 2.6%, which was only from natural causes (by birth).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_m…
The UN divided the mandate between the Palestinian Jews and Palestinian Arabs. The Jewish part became the State of Israel. and the Palestinian Arabs where is their part .they have no stat till now and the reason is obvious….. it is Israel

The US government could create its own refineries and sell it to us at a discount. This would ease the pressure on the American public until oil alternatives are up and running.

I do.

For decades, politicians, corporate leaders and the media have subjected the world’s people to the self-serving claim that the capitalist market is the most rational means of allocating society’s resources. What is now being revealed is the basic conflict between the needs of a modern mass society and anarchy of the profit system.

At the heart of the crisis is the breakdown of the global economic system. For decades, politicians, corporate leaders and the media have subjected the world’s people to the self-serving claim that the capitalist market is the most rational means of allocating society’s resources. What is now being revealed is the basic conflict between the needs of a modern mass society and the anarchy of the profit system.

It is impossible to ascertain any truthful estimates of remaining global supplies, because the oil producing countries and energy conglomerates have vested interests in concealing their “business secrets” from the people. Entrenched corporate and political opposition has also largely squelched large-scale development of environmentally safe and sustainable alternatives, although the technology has existed, in some cases, for decades.

Supposed solutions produced within the framework of the capitalist system have only worsened the crisis. The development of bio-fuels is a case in point. Even if one were to accept the widely disputed claims that bio-fuels are a means of reducing carbon emissions, their production has only led to a massive increase in the price of corn and other crops, wreaking havoc throughout the world. The entire project has been tied to the interests of agri-business monopolies, such as ADM and Cargill, which have an overriding concern, not in ending global warming, but boosting their bottom lines.

The rational use of remaining petroleum resources and the development of genuine alternatives require an unprecedented level of international cooperation and the marshalling of the world’s technological, material and human resources. This is not possible as long as capitalism divides the globe into competing nation states, each vying for advantage over the other.

The mad scramble to control the world’s remaining oil supplies has led to a violent struggle, in which the bloody US invasion and occupation of Iraq is but one episode. All of the major powers—from the US, to China, Europe, and Japan—are vying for control of the Middle East, the Caspian region, the Arctic and Antarctica and even the sea-beds of the world’s oceans. The struggle for resources is once again threatening the world with the eruption of a new round of imperialist wars, which could threaten the very survival of humanity.

Apparently the big oil companies and power generators (like Shell, BP and the Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation) are very much in favour of cap and trade. Do you think this they’re genuine in their concern for the environment, or is it something else?

Follow the money…………. Cap and trade will artificially raise energy costs and these companies are in the energy business. More revenue for providing the same of product = ever increasing profit. All brought to you by your government. You think they are looking out for you? Cap and trade will also make tons of money for the investment banks.

I’ve recently has to drive a 1976 pontiac ventura and I just wanted to know what type of oil is best for it.

10w30 is overall the best kind of oil to but in just about any kind of car. Unless your running it in the winter, then 5w30 would be the best route to go. But that kind of car shouldnt see the winter air.

I’m in pennsylvania and obviously 15 and I want to get a job at self owned garage would they hire me to do odd jobs like sweep up clean up oil ect. would I be able to work here and do stuff like sweep and what not or do I have to be 16-18

My freind age 15 works at a auto garage, his job is light repair and moving the cars/trucks + some cleaning, but thats in Canada.