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"Regulation doesn't work
very well in the state of
Texas because the Railroad
Commission doesn't work
on the public's behalf."
 
  
 
Remember how the Standard Oil
Trust suckered the Interestate
Commerce Commission to do its
bidding by controlling railroad
rates to favor the Trust and
its monopoly?   
 
cf. This is a excellent book about the history and the power of the Standard Oil Trust.  It describes the use of the Union Tank Car as the means by which power was maintained over competing oil companies -- often with the assistance of the Government. Carr, Albert Z. , "John D.Rockefeller's Secret Weapon,"
   New York: McGraw-Hill Book, 1962
The History of the Standard Oil Company Tarbell, Ida M., "The History of the Standard Oil Company,"
   New York: Phillips & Company, 1904
Union Tank Car Company website. UTLX, "Union Tank Car Company"
Acknowledged history of the Union Tank Car Company. www.utlx.com/history.html, "The History of the Union
   Tank Car Company"
Interesting resource. http://www.bilderberg.org/whatafel.htm, "Greed posing
   as philanthropy"
Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D_Rockefeller,
   "John D. Rockefeller family bibliography"
PBS information http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_rock_jsr.html,
   "An American Experience"
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