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It can, and has, been argued that the business would have opened up anyway. After Spindletop in 1901, and certainly by the boom in demand created by the widespread use of automobiles, it was getting harder and harder for Rockefeller to maintain the control he had. The industry was outgrowing him, if you can imagine that. Still, he was a sour and ruthless ba***rd, who made many enemies, so they weren't going to wait around to see what happened.
That would be my response as well. Monopolies tend to fall under their own weight because they eventually become less efficient due to their large size and inability to cope with communication within such a large structure. It can easily be done today but not so much back then with little technology for that purpose. Just imagine the bookkeeping required for that leviathan.:doh:
A motley collection of right-wing nutjobs and bigamists...the opposite of hippies...perhaps Mr. Powers would embraces such a scenario....[/QUOTE]
Just about anything that is the opposite of Hippie is good enough for me. However, bigamy falls under hippie so there really isn’t a huge difference between the two in that regard. :doh: