How And When Did Ancient People Start Using Oil?

[rangerrebew]

How And When Did Ancient People Start Using Oil?
AncientPages.com | June 28, 2018 

AncientPages.com - Our ancestors were aware of the importance of oil. The use of oil is a very ancient invention in fact. As early as 2,000 B.C, there were a number of oil sources in Babylonia and Persia that could easily be used for production.

Oil that had seeped to the surface would mostly evaporate and leave behind bitumen - the tarry component of the mixture of hydrocarbons from which it is composed. This has been used for thousands of years as a waterproofing agent, for plumbing, boat building and brick bonding.

Ancient Persians used kerosene (also called paraffin or paraffin oil) obtained from raw oil for lightning about 600 B.C.

http://www.ancientpages.com/2018/06/28/how-and-when-did-ancient-people-start-using-oil/

[Free Vulcan]

The situation was somewhat different in ancient China where oil could not be easily obtained because it was hidden deep underground. Ancient Chinese solved the problem by building oil drill towers, somewhat similar to modern oil rigs.

With help of a metal drill attached on bamboo sticks, the Chinese could penetrate the ground and obtain oil located about 243 meters below the Earth’s surface.  Oil and natural gas was used for heat and light. Bamboo pipes carried gas into home.

And the enviros would have you believe it's just a 20th century thing.