Texas oilman Michel Halbouty claimed that the Spindletop discovery changed the entire world. He wrote: “It revived the industrial revolution, which had been dead for a while. It caused the United States to become a world power. It revolutionized transportation through the automobile industry.”

Imagine that you are a newspaper reporter living in Texas during the oil boom. Write a newspaper article explaining how the oil boom changed Texas. Include positive and negatives impacts of the oil industry’s growt