Big Oil
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Interest of | Charlotte Dennett |
Big Oil is used to describe the world's largest publicly owned oil companies.
“I hate to say that big oil is bigger than the United States Government; but its favored treatment at the hands of our government certainly leads to that conclusion.”
Robert K. Killian (8 June 1973) [citation needed]
"Competition in the Energy Industry": Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antittrust and Monopoly of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 93rd Congress, First Session
How Big Oil conquered the world, a video by James Corbett |
Examples
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BP | Multinational oil company implicated in the 1953 Iran Coup. |
Chevron | |
Seven Sisters | Big Oil oligopoly |
Shell | |
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Related Quotation
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Bill Gammell | “Either Gammel was an extremely visionary businessman, or he had great connections, or both. One way or the other, along with Enron and Cheney's Haliburton, Gammel's Cairn was soon making a fortune off oil in India, a country not noted for its prospects in that regard.” | Russ Baker Bill Gammell |