One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Smallest Oil Refiner (atlasobscura.com)

I am constantly amazed by the weird and wonderful things I see on Atlas Obscura. Thank you!

What a great read. I love seeing these little weird slices of Americana being preserved for future generations.

This is super cool. Yeah, fossil oil tech belongs in a museum, not the cornerstone of our civilization.

The refineries of Abu Kadir are also very small (German documentary): https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/104498-000-A/syrien-warum-schu... French version: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/030273-834-A/arte-reportage/

I actually just drove by that last week - there's a fun plaque out front but as of today it's very junky up there (seems adjacent property owner is allowing their yard to become junkyardish).

It was a cool little slice of history to see!

This was even more interesting to read given the context of the Standard Oil episode of the Acquired podcast recently