- Mr. Ross: Well now, mister, uh...
- The Lone Ranger: [disguised with fake beard and brown suit] Foyle, Joe Foyle. Rhymes with 'oil'.
- Tonto: Texas is changing, Ke-mo sah-bee. Oilwells, everywhere you look.
- The Lone Ranger: Yes, Tonto. The earth below us is rich with what they are calling 'black gold'.
- Tonto: But there is one thing that hasn't changed:
- The Lone Ranger: A prairie fire!
- The Lone Ranger: [adressing the viewers] Oil is a prehistoric energy source first used by the ancient Egyptians for medicine and crude oil lamps. Oil was discovered in Canada in 1857 and then in Pennsylvania in 1859. Ironically, a byproduct called gasoline was thrown away, because no one knew what to do with it.