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Gasoline

by Utility Project

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Wankel 02:34
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La Rueda 01:54
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Henry Ford 03:17
With Thomas Edison you were obsessed you convinced his son to capture his dying breath And you swore that you lived before that you were a soldier in the civil war I saw Calvin peein' on your name on the back of a pickup truck again you modernized the assembly line and turned out cars in record time I saw Calvin peein' on your name on the back of a pickup truck again Happy Birthday Henry Ford it's the 30th of July once more Happy Birthday Henry Ford even though you're dead doesn't mean you're ignored Every car I've ever owned it was a Ford, it's all I've known Happy Birthday Henry Ford it's the 30th of July once more Happy Birthday Henry Ford Labor unions you abhorred so you hired some goons, eh, Mr. Ford? when you were ten you knew then you would be an engineer you lived on a farm in Dearborn Michigan that year you saw a thresher that was made to propel itself you took it apart and you rebuilt it all by yourself
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Intrepid 03:27
We drove a teal Intrepid resolute fearlessness on the Interstate connecting two or more states to go see Incubus an evil spirit that lies on you in your sleep in Indianapolis a city in central Indiana a show that was Interesting holding our attention we became Intoxicated abnormal state of poisoning we decided to spend the night the time from dusk to dawn in the morning we awoke to cease sleeping to find a problem with our car a vehicle moving on wheels we stopped at a gas station a business providing gasoline and found some things insane a deranged state of the mind an ancient toothbrush a brush for cleaning the teeth jesus is coming t-shirts collarless short sleeved undershirts and an evil troll coloring book a book in which to color with a curse for us inside the part within I'm driving down the interstate I'm driving down the interstate going 30 miles an hour going 30 miles an hour A cop he pulls me over a cop he pulls me over says now you girls be careful you almost to Terre Haute a semi tries to pass me pass me on the shoulder now the world is spinnin now my world is spinnin somebody picks me up somebody picks me up now we're sittin at Bob Evans yeah we're sittin at Bob Evans the car is all smashed up the car is all smashed up I just want my daddy I just want my momma
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Yeah they found him in a river and he was dead suicide? foul play? no one will ever say the rules of the universe unravel do you believe in time travel? put him on a bus full of hippies from Sebastopol and smell the egg rolls when the pedal hits the floor Rudolf can tweak the motor he'll clean the fuel pump and the carburetor he's our bud, he's the man finally someone who understands A hundred years ago he saw the need for bio fuels now he's back and he's pissed give him a chance and the tools put him on the hill to testify before his peers there's a blast and then a flash and then dear Rudolf disapears
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Poseyville 02:59
I live in Poseyville in a house upon the hill there's an oil well out back it never stops does not slack nodding up and down a sea of corn surrounds in the evening all is still all except the well it never stops does not slack that oil well out back nodding up and down it sounds like a turkey that's being choked it squeals and it cries with every downstroke all that I want is a moment of peace but I'm at the mercy of this screaming beast I can't stand to be in my own home the screams and the cries won't leave me alone I'm here in Poseyville in a house upon the hill I'm under attack by that oil well out back hands upon my ears but there's something loud and clear fingernails on chalkboards the wails of dying horse nothing can compare with the sound I hear it happens every day It'll never go away I guess I could move yeah I think I'll just move
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Alle aufgepasst, heute ist der fuenfte August es ist Zeit sich an die historische Fahrt zu erinnern. Es scheint als waeren Berta Benz und ihre beiden Soehne die ersten gewesen die 100 Kilometer gefahren sind. Berta musste an Apotheken stehenbleiben um Benzin in den kleinen Mengen zu kaufen die man brauchte um Laeuse vom Kopf zu kriegen Berta schreckte einige Leute entlang der Strecke Pforzheim ist nicht weit von Mannheim aber es erscheint ziemlich weit wenn man es noch nie mit dem Auto gefahren ist. die noch nie eine derartige Kutsche gesehen hatten. Die Huegel waren ein Problem und glaubt es nur, wir verdanken Bertha den niedrigen Gang in unseren Autos. [Attention everyone today is August fifth it is time to recreate that historic trip it seems that Berta Benz along with her two sons to drive sixty miles they were the very first ones Berta had to stop at pharmacies for gasoline only there in small amounts for lice upon the scalp Berta startled some folks along the way Phorzheim isn't far from Mannheim but it seems pretty far until you've travelled it by car never had they seen a carriage travel this way the hills were a problem and now listen here its thanks to Berta that your car has a low gear]
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Hey John, your dad said "Get ridda those maggots out in the garage they're crawlin' on the trash I don't care how, just get 'em gone" open up the gas pour it on the bags then we strike a match and oh, what happens next? maggots flyin' on fire metamorphosize before our eyes maggots turnin' into flies lookin' like the 4th of July airborne they ignite on their kamikaze flights I know that it isn't right but oh, what a beautiful sight maggots flyin' on fire at least they got to fly before they said goodbye
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Rockefeller 02:59
Middle man, say your prayers Stockholders, collect your shares Charities, get in line Nevermind, I'm startin' mine I know he knows he's just as good as he was bad I know you know he's just as good as he was bad Yellow Fever, say goodbye Hookworms, you're gonna die Send me to the warlocks or send me to the witches but there's only one man who scares me outta my britches you can say that I'm chicken, you can call me yeller just don't make me compete with JD Rockefeller Competition? I have none Life is a game and I've just won
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Gas Can 03:01
I grew up across street from you you'd come over every day to play except for one day something happened in your garage I watched the ambulance drive away I didn't see you do it but you you blew up your face you dropped a lit match in a gas can when I finally saw you, you'd changed you had a scab for a face you looked like a man who just got back from vietnam I didn't see you do it but you when I asked you how you did it you said something funny to me and I'll never forget it you said that you ate too many mashed potatoes then you smiled and said I'll see you later I didn't see you do it but you
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Boneshaker 02:22
Dad pats me with his hand and says son be a brave man I'm sittin' on an old saddle switch it on and it starts to rattle It's causin' an earthquake and it's makin' my back ache and I'm ridin' on a boneshaker I'm ridin' on a boneshaker Got two wagon wheels under me the design is simple enough you see the engine shakes between my feet it coughs and spits, it's puttin' out some heat dad's face is now a distant memory after 12 miles no one here but me over hills and steams through the briers I look down and everything is on fire I just rode the world's first motorbike makin' history, riskin' my life I'll let Dad worry 'bout the history makin I'm just happy for a little boneshakin' that's the sound of my bones shaking
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Oh gasoline, of thee I sing. Oh gasoline, of thee I dream, Cause I'll do most anything To fill my car With gasoline. Oh gasoline, of thee I sing. Oh gasoline, of thee I dream, Cause I'll promote most any scheme To fill my car With gasoline. Oh gasoline, of thee I sing Oh gasoline, of thee I dream, Cause I'll write on most any theme To get back home To Y oh ming. To get back home To Y oh ming.
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Otto 03:45
Fill the combustion chamber with gasoline and air then compress the mixture just like you do not care ignition burns the fuel, pushes the piston down empties up the chamber-turns the crankshaft around This sends the wheels a spinnin' round and round and round thank your tire treads, they keep you on the ground step on the accelorator and see what happens then more gas pumps in the chamber and it starts all over again An engine's like your body, it works whether or not you know filler up check the tires and buddy you're good to go you can thank Nicolaus Otto he figured all this out he tried this, he tried that and I'm sure he had his doubts suck squeeze bang blow (intake, compression, power, exhaust) Think of Nicolaus Otto when you're zooming down the road in your late model Dodge Omni haulin' another load of ancient engine technology circa eighteen eighty five every moving bucket of bolts keeps Otto's dream alive Ethanol and cleaner fuels now they begin to flow just as the desire for alternatives does grow an industry changing gears probably never be the same but the four stroke engine we know and love will always bear his name
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Leg Burn Bob 02:14
I'm clearin' brush at the lake home stackin' it up pour all the gas on turns out I'm standin in the danger zone still air keeps all the fumes low Red phosphorus turns to white with every match strike this causes it to light and gas fumes ignite Did you hear a whoosh? I thought I heard a whoosh past the burning brush into the lake I rush Oh honey, now you hush doesn't hurt me very much can't feel 'em when I touch so it's back to clearin' brush next morning I'm in pain got blisters on my legs I told you so you say to the doctor right away I've got irradiated pig skin on my calves and on my shins don't think I'll start a fire with gas again
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Down in the pay zone the rat hole collects the oil that's down there and keeps out the gas the oil's forced up and the gas it is vented the pilot burns off the excessive gas if it's cold nuff this casing head gas turns into petrol without the road tax burnin' midnight ethyl no one inspects it- but it's nice to collect it- so under the radar no one would expect it yeah you can run on this renegade petrol your new best friend's name is midnight ethyl fill up in topeka go fill up in bethel don't get caught filling by the side of the road with your trunk in the air exposing your load like a '74 pinto you're bound to explode you know officer I'm glad that you asked what's in these jugs? under the hatch? perhaps we can see by the light of this match
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Lukasievich 02:34
I left home to work at a pharmacy there I found a way to distill kerosene on july 31st eighteen fifty three a lamp I made was used to light a surgery You can leave the whale oil inside the whale we've got something better for sale bubblin' up from the ground comes the seep now we're lightin' up this town on the cheap I'm digging wells, I'm setting up refineries demand is good, the zlotys flow right through me I paved our streets and paved the way for the modern oil industry
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It's black gold that I'm chasin' in the Illinois oil basin from Wisconsin to Cincinnatti and Nashville to the Mississippi buried down underground just about fourteen thou' Daniel Yergin wrote 'The Prize' now he's opened up my eyes it's black gold that I'm chasin' in the Illinois oil basin impossible though it seems, all this land was once sea tiny animals now deceased, droppin' down in their sleep let's look back in the past rotting heaps of biomass once there lived tiny plankton, now I think we should thank 'em it's black gold that I'm chasin' in the Illinois oil basin all this time it's been waitin' for the rigs we're creatin' can you hear the cicada cry? dying now he can no longer fly decomposing he becomes the earth, in a million years comes his rebirth plankton from some time ago, reconvened to make the oil flow he's liquified with all his friends, but that's not where the story ends sucked back up and then refined, he becomes the gasoline that you buy now it's time to incinerate, burned up inside your old v8 it's black gold that I'm chasin' in the Illinois oil basin and the clock that I'm racin' with the demand that we're facin' since Precambrian times repeated uplifts and down wrappings igneous and sedimentary now loosened up all the trappings it's black gold that I'm chasin' in the Illinois oil basin some folks say that it's fine soon we'll have a good supply it's black gold that I'm chasin' I won't let these stacked pays ever get in my way Recent calcs indicate that it's not yet too late it's black gold that I'm chasin' in the Illinois oil basin it's black gold that I'm chasin' in the Illinois oil basin
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In 1859 I dug an oil mine I made a hole in the earth near Titusville, PA hoping to find crude in a big enuff pay the banks and investors were with me all the way until things got rough and then they backed away I used a steam engine to get the drilling done there was no plan for action so I invented one drill comes up drill goes down drill turns around I came up with a drive pipe when things were getting' rough 32 feet down the bedrock was pretty tough we drilled and we drilled each day only got 3 feet people gathered round to point and to laugh at me but we kept on drilling down 69 feet drill comes up drill goes down drill turns around we'd left it for the night feelin' kind of low first thing next morning we saw the oil flow we gathered up some tubs and filled em up real quick the smile on my face was so big that it hurt the only thing I wish is that I had a patent all my problem solvin' just went to anyone who wanted it if solvency's your intention you gotta patent your invention
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Jellies 02:06
your brand new pair of jellies of course are made from petroleum I find myself crossing the street whenever you dare to wear 'em you look at me and smile you look at me and smile you look at me and smile now I have my own pair and I wouldn't dream of anything else to wear grease up those dancin' shoes and show me your dancin' moves you're movin' on the dance floor more than anyone would hope for
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Gasoline 04:05

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These songs were all created using information from oil companies and human information from key figures in the proliferation of gasoline into our lives

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released May 31, 2007

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