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early supplies of petrol and paraffin?
I know that we have crude oil and oil rigs/refineries etc for the petrochemical industry but can anyone tell me where and how we acquired products such as petol and paraffin in the early days of motoring and related industries (around the turn of the 19th/20th century etc)?
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- Anonymous10 years agoFavorite Answer
Paraffin was obtained by mining shales. I think this was then heated to evaporate and then condense the product. I guess that petrol originally came from surface crudes but would still have needed to be refined.