One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Smallest Oil Refiner

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/worlds-smallest-oil-refinery-wyoming

by CapitalistCartr • 5 years ago

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jeffrallen• 5 years ago

I am constantly amazed by the weird and wonderful things I see on Atlas Obscura. Thank you!

jdhn• 5 years ago

What a great read. I love seeing these little weird slices of Americana being preserved for future generations.

Robotbeat• 5 years ago

This is super cool. Yeah, fossil oil tech belongs in a museum, not the cornerstone of our civilization.

zweifuss• 5 years ago

The refineries of Abu Kadir are also very small (German documentary): https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/104498-000-A/syrien-warum-schu... French version: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/030273-834-A/arte-reportage/

benzofuran• 5 years ago

I actually just drove by that last week - there's a fun plaque out front but as of today it's very junky up there (seems adjacent property owner is allowing their yard to become junkyardish).

It was a cool little slice of history to see!

kryz• 5 years ago

This was even more interesting to read given the context of the Standard Oil episode of the Acquired podcast recently

One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Smallest Oil Refiner

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