Depends upon what you call major. Idaho Falls ID is about 155 miles from Yellowstone. It has a mall. The nearest city with over a million residents is Denver CO, about 580 miles from Yellowstone. Amused Contestant Â· 6 years ago.
Â­ Crude oil is the term for unprocessed oil, the stuff that comes out of the ground. It is also known as petroleum. Crude oil is a fossil fuel, meaning that it was made naturalÂ­ly from decaying plants and animals living in ancient seas millions of years ago -- most places you can find crude oil were once sea beds. Crude oils vary in color, from clear to tar-black, and in viscosity, from water to almost solid.
Petroleumâor crude oilâis a fossil fuel that is found in large quantities beneath the Earthâs surface and. is often used as a fuel or raw material in the chemical industry. It is a smelly, yellow-to-black liquid and is. usually found in underground areas called reservoirs. If you could look down an oil well and see oil where. Nature created it, you might be surprised. You wouldnât. see a big underground lake, as a lot of people think. Oil. doesnât exist in deep, black pools.