oil rush
Black gold stampede
A period of frenzied migration and speculation following the discovery of petroleum in a region, modeled on gold rush.
Oil rushes brought rapid development to places like Pennsylvania in the 1860s and Texas in the early 1900s, transforming rural areas into boomtowns almost overnight: The Spindletop oil rush made fortunes and ghost towns in equal measure.
- petroleumNatural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- gusherOil well that erupts
- drilling rigWell-boring machinery platform
- boomLoud deep sound
- boom and bustRecurring economic extremes
wildcatter · derrick · black gold · fossil fuel · prospector · strike it rich · bonanza · boomtown · drilling · speculation · fortune · Texas · strike · crude · liquid gold · barrel · refinery · pipeline
- petroleumcrude, petroleum, oilfields, kerosene, diesel fuel
- oil industrypetroleum, crude, drilling, drilling rig, refineries
oil rushdecarbonization
Eliminating fossil fuel emissions
clean energy transition · energy conservation · oil embargo · carbon neutrality
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