1. Create a PowerPoint or web presentation or bulletin board display showing how the different steps in oil production in distribution have changed from Drake's time and now. 2. Students can compare the stages of the steel production and oil production, constructing a diagram of the two processes. Then they can identify the methods by which Rockefeller and Carnegie controlled these industries. 3. Students can research present oil consumption figures and plot them against existing oil reserves. 4. Students can speculate why in the 1850s the people were willing to invest money into drilling for oil in the United States rather than other countries or locations in the world? (United States' enthusiasm for developing resources, the willingness to take risks and an economic system that allows for entrepreneurs.