Here’s a little refresher on the Alaskan pipeline.

    Here’s a little refresher on the Alaskan pipeline.

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    1. I LOVE Fred’s humor. He’s totally the kind of guy I crushed on when I was a middle school student. He’s so funny and nerdy at the same time. I totally would’ve believed him.

    2. A mere minute is insufficient to thoroughly convey the rich history of the Alaskan Pipeline. To pick up where Fred left off, Mexico was reeling from the Great Guac Shortage of 1952, and in an effort to prevent economic freefall, agreed to lease Canada land for their refineries. There was one big hurdle though. Canada needed to get the oil to Mexico, and while horse and carriage was deemed the least costly mode of transport, doing so would have compromised the potency of its main active compound, ammonium thioglycolate. It was instead transported by sea (the Titanic had not yet been configured for passenger use and was chosen due to its large freight capacity). The colossal ship, loaded with 12 billion metric tons of Siberian oil, left the port of Juneau on March 12th 1962 headed for the rolling hills of the eastern Yuccatan in what is now Cancun, and as they say, the rest is history.

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