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So, when did people begin to use oil? Well, we know that people used oil about four thousand years ago in the Middle East. They used it on the outside of boats and ships. This was to make them waterproof. They also used it when they were building. They put it between the building stones. They found the oil in small pools. There was also oil along river banks. It simply seeped from below the ground to the surface and collected there in pools. At about the same time, people in Egypt and Japan used oil to light their homes. They also used oil as medicine to treat several illnesses. And we also know that bitumen was used on the early streets of Baghdad. Bitumen is a black, almost solid form of oil... ... People drilled oil thousands of years ago in China. The interesting thing is that they didn't want oil. They wanted salt. The oil wasn't important so they threw it away. But in the middle of the nineteenth century, people realized how important oil could be. They found they could distil oil to produce kerosene which they burned in oil lamps to light their homes. This happened in several different countries - in America, Russia, and Romania.

People didn't use oil as a fuel for transport for many years. That changed when the automobile - the car - was invented. When they distilled oil to make kerosene for lamp oil, they also produced petrol, or gasoline, and this became a very important product. The car was the real start of the oil industry. Today, oil is used for lots of things - fuel for cars, lorries, aircraft, heating and cooling of buildings, and it's also used in many industrial processes. For example, it's used to make plastics, medicine, fibres, and detergents...