The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.

Those kids are risking life and limb when they go inside that old abandoned house: it might collapse on their heads.

Are you going to stay up all night? I daresay that I am.

He continued: So I am standing up with the community and the villagers of Surrey to say 'No'.