The other side of the Atlantic experienced a shortage of whale oil used for illumination.

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Once upon a time, America was the Saudi Arabia of whale oil, the fuel of its day.

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That is a fancy way of saying that Oil Creek Valley put the whale oil industry out of business.

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Whale oil was displaced by hydrocarbon production, which the United States also dominated.

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We ran out of whale oil but found petroleum.

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In thirty years, our obsessive application of this concept narrowly to fossil fuels and CO2 production will seem as misguided as a nineteenth century fixation on conserving whale oil and cleaning up horse manure in the city streets.

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Mindful markets and civil society will complete it as inexorably as innovators and capitalists got America off whale-oil lamps in the 1850s.

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But the real star of the show is the city itself with its dark, zombie-infested alleys and sewers, its whale-oil-powered steampunk technology, and its high brick walls.

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