"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." --Associates of Edwin L. Drake refusing his suggestion to drill for oil in 1859.
Only one hundred fifty years passed by since the first attempt to dig out oil from the ground met such contempt, and now the whole world is trying to look for unimaginable places to satiate the thirst for money that is propelled and sustained on this black gold.
"Ours has been the first [expedition], and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality." ---- Lt. Joseph Ives, after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861.
More than a century later, five million people annually visit this "profitless locality," by car, foot, air, and on the Colorado River itself.
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"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." 
"Ours has been the first [expedition], and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality."