" OIL - THE INVISIBLE TRAVELER " TRANSPORT OF OIL TO MARKET 1953 SHELL OIL CO. FILM MD10134

[@DeTrOiTXX12]

I always enjoy the oil documentaries!

[@dougvanallen2212]

Another great movie in New Jersey we have a few tank farms there’s a pump house in our town

[@quantumleap359]

This film was made in 1953. Imagine the absolutely HUGE amount of oil we have used in the last 70 years! It boggles the mind.

[@patrickrancourt4782]

Oh Yeah !!! Oil always Rule's in 2023 like in 1953 Gr8 gr8 educational clip Forever Oil !!!!!

[@paulr7547]

Great video.

[@freddypflugbeil6]

That was a nice TV room chair they put on the house front porch

[@Sennmut]

29 cents a gallon! If only!

[@65gtotrips]

Can you imagine ? I grew up in the late 60’s - mid 70’s and before the embargo it was like what 80 cents to a buck twenty five ? I didn’t look it up.

[@dubdaze68]

"Number 4 in a series". How many were there, and are they available?

[@kc4cvh]

9:08 This practice made the nation's oil supply vulnerable to attack from submarines during the war.

[@lukestrawwalker]

The man that introduced my parents to each other when they started dating was a merchant marine working on oil tankers during the war. He recounted the story that one time they were part of a four ship convoy leaving the port of Galveston bound for New York. They didn't even get out of sight of Galveston and BOOM the first tanker blew up, huge fireball, everyone killed. Then the second tanker blew up, same as the first. Then the third tanker. U-boats in the Gulf of Mexico. They basically figured their number was up and prayed and made their peace with God, waiting for their ship to blow up under them in a huge gasoline fireball. BUT the explosion never came... they kept right on sailing and got up to speed and kept going... they only thing they could figure was that the U-boat had run out of torpedoes... Early in the war they lurked offshore and looked for the outline of tankers between them and the brightly lit cities of the coastlines which would silhouette them against the coast lights at night... then they could accurately target and sink them without putting themselves at risk on the surface. During the day the submarines would submerge to avoid detection by Coast Guard or Navy ships and air patrols... It took a little time, but eventually we figured out how to protect the ships better and the number of sinkings fell way off... as Navy and Coast Guard detection and escort improved and better air patrols, they finally took a toll on the submarines and turned the tide...

[@AnaPaulinacom]

Peak-Oil: The current rate for regular Octane fuel is currently at 3.79 per gallon in my area.

[@yanikkunitsin1466]

Are you attack helicopter pilot? Why do you need octane number?

[@genefogarty5395]

The 115 octane I run in my race car is nearly 7 bucks a gallon at the track, lol.

[@manhoot]

I say oils well that ends well.

[@creepingjesus5106]

Oil drink to that!

[@lisasdfwhightechworld9946]

@@creepingjesus5106 Puns are the lowest form of humor. LOL

[@quantumleap359]

Oil vey!

[@4BRVWasaga]

​@@creepingjesus5106it was a good dad joke. You just made it great.

[@65gtotrips]

All before shale and the Canadian sands were tapped.

[@1978garfield]

Do you have the rest of this series? It says this is number 4 in a series. Thanks!

[@johnsiders7819]

Was something back in the day we were self sufficient with domestic oil production now we are swinging on opec's chain this week gas went up with the new war . Today we had no gas at some local stations people were panic buying !! our self oiling was stopped with Joes second day in office .

[@genefogarty5395]

And we have an estimated five million years worth of petroleum products underground as per the USGS. So why is it so expensive? Can you say POLITICS?

[@scratchdog2216]

Must have been great to eliminate the basement coal bin and ash in the era this film was made.

[@RCmack]

Gasoline contained lead back in 1953. Now, all gasoline is unleaded.

[@genefogarty5395]

A sort of lead, tetra ethyl lead. Not exactly safe to chug in 12 oz. portions, but not as dangerous as the element we know as lead. It provided a cushion in exhaust gases to preserve valve seats. Hardened inserts were the simple fix to that problem. Petrochemistry has come a long way as metallurgy has too.

[@edwardd9702]

Wasn't it a knock preventative so that engines could go high compression without preignition destruction.

[@genefogarty5395]

@@edwardd9702 No, we still have unleaded hi octane gasoline that does away with compression induced preignition.

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@edwardd9702 Yes it served a dual purpose... raised the octane level and produced a valve seat lubricant as it was burned and the exhaust left the cylinder... Unleaded gasoline was developed because the lead from tetraethyl lead being burned in the gasoline was found to be contaminating the environment, which isn't a good thing. We could get leaded gasoline for farm equipment up until the early-mid 90's, but it was more expensive than regular unleaded... cars and trucks quit using leaded gas by the mid-70's when it disappeared from the service stations... I'm old enough to remember as a kid in the early 70's we had "regular" (leaded), unleaded, and high-test (high octane). There was no "mid grade" like now... that came in when unleaded replaced "regular'

[@calescapee9642]

Appears to be Disney animation.

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

"So be sure to pray for salvation at your nearest Church of Oil. The only god currently paying yearly dividends on your investments. All that lead poisoning, cancer talk is a bunch of hooey! What do scientists know?"