Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
22 Sept 2021 Acquired Standard Oil Part I
“I'm going to throw this out there and say I think the world would end up no different of a place.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 22 Sept 2021
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Standard Oil Part I
Transcript context
…Yeah, well, again, counterfactual, impossible to know, but there's definitely a world where the kerosene industry doesn't develop anywhere near the same scale or impact or size. I'm going to throw this out there and say I think the world would end up no different of a place. I think it would have been totally net even. The only difference would be that the Rockefeller Family Foundation wouldn't be as large. Give or take a few years, I think the whole thing would have played out pretty similarly. We would have ended up in the same sort of major players in the oil world that we have today. Yup. Maybe all of the Standard Oil children—the Exxons, the Mobils, the Chevrons, et cetera—would have developed anyway.…
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