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Remember how the US gasoline-powered automobile market would never have developed without the massive government grants to Standard Oil to build out a gas station network? Yeah, neither do I.
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Ian Lippert:
Oh Ya! I totally remember that!!!
...
oh wait, No I dont!!!
May 13, 2010, 11:14 pmDrTorch:
But, but
Standard Oil was an evil trust, and John Rockefeller was an evil robber baron!
Didn't you pay attention in 8th grade history?
May 14, 2010, 12:23 pmmarkm:
But there actually was a market for gasoline.
May 17, 2010, 12:30 pm