Which of the following is true of oil?
A) Oil was not produced in the United States until the middle of the twentieth century
B) Oil was a minor resource until the diffusion of motor vehicles early in the 1900s
C) Oil was discovered by Baron von Drusenberg of Austria in the later eighteenth century
D) Libya has the world's largest proven oil deposits
E) The United States imports about 5 percent of the total annual oil it consumes
Answer: B
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