By Tek Smith
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Black liquid exploded out of the ground towards the sky. It was oil?black gold?and it had the energy to light up homes. It had the massive force to drive the engine of the American economy, and it had the power to make a man exceedingly wealthy. John D. Rockefeller realized these things, so he extracted the oil from the earth and refined it. Then he built an infrastructure for distributing it around the country over railways and through pipelines. During his lifetim...