[Logophile]

Pure bullcrap. There are only 3 fundamental ways to create wealth. (not money) Mining/oil drilling, Agriculture/logging/fishing, Manufacturing. All the rest is merely paper snuffling or shuffling paper banknotes from one pocket to another.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "Manufacturing."

You mentioned oil drilling as one of the fundamental ways to create wealth. What about refining the oil?

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Refining is processing and manufactures gasoline and road tar, etc. yeah your on to something.....LOL

[Surtur]

You mentioned oil drilling as one of the fundamental ways to create wealth. What about refining the oil?

I hate to jump into someone else's conversation, but I will anyway. Refining oil is a manufacturing process. You take a raw material (crude oil) and process it into a finished product (gasoline, kerosene, and other chemical products), and that is the essence of manufacturing in nut shell.