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Oil Cartels and the Rise of the Car - Kingsnorth Climate Camp 2008

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Channel: Public Enquiry · 2012 · Education

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This is a short version of the workshop I gave last week at the Climate Camp at Kingsnorth in Kent, at 10.30am on Monday 4th August 2008. 
This is the full version which includes extra discussions at the end.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6494255807143013769
Energy Cartels And The Rise Of The Car: Handout
History of oil companies working together to control the energy market, how energy and transport markets have been rigged in the UK and USA to force the population to be car dependent. August 2008 – Tony Gosling
John D Rockefeller – ‘philanthropist’ and Standard Oil. The History of the Standard Oil Company - Ida M. Tarbell – 1904 “An oil producer was discovered stealing oil from the National Transit Company. He had tapped the main line and for at least two years had run a small but steady stream of Standard oil into his private tank. The jury gave a verdict of Not Guilty!”
Underhand tactics used to gain control of nearly 90% of all oil products in US by WW I, including bribery and secretly buying up railroads & transporting Standard oil almost for free and buying up competitors, using them to spy on real competitors
Broken up in into 34 companies (Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, Esso, ConocoPhillips and parts of BP & Shell) 1911 by Supreme Court – Sherman Antitrust Act. But J.D. Rockefeller retained shareholding and companies ‘worked together’.

Contemporary Cartel
UK Petroleum Industry Association, Quality House, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, Oil & Gas UK, the voice of the offshore industry, 232-242 Vauxhall Bridge Road.
2008 Energy profits announced quarterly, Exxon Mobil - £22 billion annual equivalent, BP - £13bn annual equivalent, Shell - £16bn – annual equivalent

Books 
Citizen Ken – John Carvel, Chatto and Windus, May 1984, ISBN: 0701139307
If Voting Changed Anything They’d Abolish It – Ken Livingstone, Harper-Collins, 1987, ISBN: 0002177706
Year 501, Noam Chomsky, 1993.
Crabgrass Frontier, Kenneth T. Jackson, ISBN 0 19 504 987 7
Higginson, Martin; Tramway London: background to the abandonment of London's trams 1931-1952; Pub.: Light Rail Transit Association in association with Birkbeck College with assistance from London Transport Museum;1993; ISBN: 0948106166
The Great Railway Conspiracy by David Henshaw, Leading Edge Books, 1991, ISBN: 0948135301

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