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Viscous Slave Army

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Howard Dunbar’s Tanker Truck 6 rolled into the station one chilly night … and then proceeded to unload 7,723 gallons of gasoline and diesel into the station’s underground tanks. It took Dunbar 29 minutes to empty his swimming pool-size cargo … That particular night, according to one industry method of calculating the explosive energy locked away in crude oil, Dunbar dumped the liquid equivalent of 19.2 million hours of physical labor into the Marathon’s storage tanks–or the power of a slave army of 2,200 men working around the clock for a year. This bonanza would be sucked dry by customers in 24 hours.

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