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When towns sprayed oil on dirt roads
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Welcome to the environmental nightmare of early road maintenance. Before paved asphalt became standard, rural towns would literally spray thousands of gallons of waste crude oil directly onto dirt roads. The goal was purely to keep horse buggies from kicking up dust into people's living rooms, casually sacrificing the groundwater in the name of a clean porch.
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