Monday, March 15, 2010
Crude Ohio
During today's class, we explored the oil and gas boom here in Northwest Ohio. It is amazing to thing that just fifty years after the settlement of Bowling Green that there was a huge oil and gas boom. Many of the large Victorian style homes in Downtown Bowling Green were built with the money from the boom. The homes built on the west side of Main street were part of the boom town that resulted from the influx of the money and need for labor during the boom. What was the most intriguing fact from the documentary? Compared to other information about oil and natural gas, which you have learned, what is the same or different? Would you have liked to have been an oil or gas prospector here in the Great Black Swamp? Why or why not?
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Ohio began state in 1803's and the discover the oil in 1884 that mean the country history that really great things early time finds natural sources.
ReplyDeletebut the sadness things here the killed the natural environment .
Because of the oil and gas boom you could get really rich, so because of that I would've like to be a oil and gas prospector. But, what the people didn't know back in the days was that the oil and gas waste was very bad for the natural environment. With this information I would've tried to stop the gas and oil boom (if i had this information about affecting the natural environment and lived back in the days, I would've probably be the first greenpeace member).
ReplyDeleteThe biggest thing i've learned from this documentary was that there was a lot of gas and oil here in Bowling Green. Nowadays we consider oil as a very expensive good and back in the days the seem the couldn't get enough of it. To me it was insane that they burned all the oil that came out of the well.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to be a prospector because the competition was to high on one point. Next to that it is a dirty business, not even for your own health but also a business full of treason.
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ReplyDeleteI surprised the fact that there were lots of oil and gas in the Ohio state. After watching this documentary, I seem to know why there are many good-looking houses in Bowling Green.
ReplyDeleteIf I lived at that time, I wouldn't like to be an oil prospector. Of course, I could be rich by finding oil, but I don't want to become a slave of the money. As you know, the human doesn't know the word 'satisfaction'. Even though one person has enough money to live, he/she would struggle to make the money.(Most of people, who are rich, are doing that.) If I were an oil prospector, I'd make no scruples of doing anything to find oil. Maybe I could destroy the nature to attain my object.
that time is so hard to live because they were difficulties to find food and Clothes. but after the oil boom their life turned into new life like now.
ReplyDeleteI think having such thing could be a huge mistake at that time. Since the advantages were less than the disadvantages, it was really smart to keep a job with many problems like that.
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