America at 250: How oil & gas built the republic
July 9, 2026
(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – Less than eighty years after the Declaration of Independence announced the birth of a new nation, another declaration was being written in the hills of western Pennsylvania. It carried no signatures, sparked no rebellion, and invited no accusations of treason. Yet its consequences would prove transformative. In August 1859, Edwin
