Curt Howland wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> > So the Standard Oil Trust was a good thing, and we should welcome >> > it's return? > > During the time Standard Oil was in operation, the price of kerosine > dropped some 90%.
They're still in operation, though IIRC they call themselves Imperial Oil now. You can identify their gas stations because they're Exxon in the states and Esso everywhere else. > There may very well have been some nasty, reprehensible things done, > which deserve both wide publicity and boycott. A company, no matter > how large their market share, cannot force you to buy their product. Try not eating. :o) > Condemnation merely because they were big is envy. I see the same > vitriol thrown at Microsoft, I'm not condemning them because they're big, I'm condemning them because they > because of the same lack of awareness of how an unregulated market works. Laissez-faire economics is an impossible pipe dream and Germany proved it. Taken to it's natural end, you get Germany's pre-WWII out-of-control rapid inflation where soon it takes millions of dollars just to make a basic grocery run. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
