THE CARBON WAR

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Comrades in arms 39 Which means I can barely imagine who is listening when I have my Skype calls with my collaborator in the Pentagon. I raised the issue with Daniel once. Yep, he said. Morning fellas!
Chapter 5 If only he had the money New York, 13 th January 2014 Eight people sit today in the home of the richest man who ever lived, John D. Rockefeller. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil, the most powerful oil company ever to have drilled the planet, parent of ExxonMobil and other modern American oil giants. The eight are talking about climate change and the oil industry. What do you think the drift of their discussion might logically be? If the latter-day antics of ExxonMobil and its peers are anything to go on, then surely the conversation would be about how to take the air out of the tyres of anyone suggesting climate change might be a reason for cutting oil dependency. But no, the eight people are talking about the reverse: how to take the financial air out of big energy’s tyres. How to turn off the lifeblood of the oil, gas and coal industries, and force them to change beyond recognition. Let me explain this counter-intuitive state of affairs. Rockefeller co-founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870. With kerosene and gasoline growing increasingly vital in the industrialising world, he accumulated a staggering fortune by the time of his death in 1937. By 1880, Standard Oil was refining over 90% of all oil in the USA. By the time of his retirement in 1897, Rockefeller’s company was part of a tight cartel with a handful of other oil majors including the forerunners of BP and Shell, controlling all aspects of oil production, refining and distribution, everywhere in the commercialised world. The business methods Rockefeller used to gain such control of the exploding oil market were controversial, to say the least. A New York city newspaper of the day stated the case succinctly. Standard Oil, as the New York World saw
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