With the Urban Prospector, You Can Find Oil Under Your Feet and No Seals Will Get It on Them!

How do we usually find oil?  Basically oil people rig a rig in the ocean or Alaska or Texas or a national park and then a ton of oil shoots up out of the ground right into the faces of baby seals.  The seals are then washed off and killed and then some other stuff happens, and finally you drive your Expedition down to the end of your driveway and back to pick up the paper because you are a fat piece of sh*t.

But what if there were another way?  What if you could find oil yourself right under your feet?  What if you could drink your own milkshake?

Enter the Urban Prospector, a metal detector tricked out with a combustible gas sensor that can find pockets of oil underground.

Until recently, oil prospecting has been a field left to the professionals because it requires sophisticated tools for detection. But in much the same way gold prospecting empowered people to find small nuggets of profit, urban prospectors now have the potential to find small nuggets of oil near oil spills, abandoned gas stations, and industrial sites. Given the current high cost of oil, these urban spills or potential gold mines are waiting to be tapped.

It only costs a $100, but the important social comment you’ll be making in front of your hippie friends is priceless.

Source: Instructables via Gizmodo.