Just months after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which leaked millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, another Gulf oil rig exploded into flames Thursday.

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

Just north of Wichita you can find the El Dorado oilfield, which produced so much oil that it was dubbed the Oilfield that Won WWI. Although the boom town that inhabited the area have all but ...