Thorla-McKee Well in Caldwell, Ohio

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

Find someone who loves you the way America loves petroleum. As of 2023, the United States is both the largest producer and consumer of oil, each day extracting some 23 billion barrels and guzzling 20 billion. It's become a meme at this point that if black gold is discovered in even the remotest location, American fighter jets aren't far behind to ensure whatever government there is friendly to US economic interests. But the first time America met crude oil, she was rather indifferent to its exi