America has in less than 30 years fought two world wars during which, gas and oil were consumed at a great rate. Naturally this severely decreased our reserve supplies and something had to be done to increase supplies. Many years previously two men Sam and Hank while trying to light a camp fire without any wood throw a stone on to the fire and to their astonishment the fire burns away like crazy. This story tells how oil can be derived from this discovery of shale oil.