Political Quotes

“I come from the Oil Valley where oil was discovered. In fact, I live 5 miles from Drake's Well where the first oil well that produced oil, ever, in the world was dug. Colonel Drake, in the middle of the 19th Century, came to Titusville, and it was sort of Drake's folly. He was going to drill for oil. They could not get the drilling rigs, and so they actually dug a well 68 feet deep. And one would wonder why they chose that valley. Because that creek was already Oil Creek that ran between Oil City and Titusville, Titusville to Oil City, because that stream always had oil on it. The gas pressure, the oil sand being only 68 feet below the surface, oil was always oozing up into springs and small streams and into Oil Creek; so it was always named Oil Creek because there was always a scum of oil on Oil Creek. That valley changed the world. It changed our whole transportation system. And here 150 years later, we still use for vehicle oil, the same kind of oil that was discovered back when Drake's oil was dug. It was the home base of all the major oil companies. Every major oil company in this country has its roots in Titusville and Oil City.”