How much do you get paid by the oil companies to cast doubt on well researched opinion pieces? By the way, nothing you/wikipedia “wrote” directly addresses any of the statements in the piece you are supposedly debunking, so your employer, if you are a paid poster working on behalf of oil companies, has made a bad investment in you because some people still care about facts and can read through your sorry plagiarism.

A conspiracy is a group of people who get together to plan something, and don’t tell others about it, simple as that. That’s what oil companies did according to the federal court system so you better start pointing your finger at them instead of this article.
Source: Clean Technica (http://s.tt/12Sgi)

How much do you get paid by the oil companies to cast doubt on well researched opinion pieces? By the way, nothing you/wikipedia “wrote” directly addresses any of the statements in the piece you are supposedly debunking, so your employer, if you are a paid poster working on behalf of oil companies, has made a bad investment in you because some people still care about facts and can read through your sorry plagiarism.

A conspiracy is a group of people who get together to plan something, and don’t tell others about it, simple as that. That’s what oil companies did according to the federal court system so you better start pointing your finger at them instead of this article.

Standard Oil of California and Gulf Oil merged in 1984, the largest merger in history at that time. Under the antitrust regulation, SoCal divested many of Gulf’s operating subsidiaries, and sold some Gulf stations and a refinery in the eastern United States. SoCal changed the name to Chevron Corporation.

The business that became Gulf Oil started in 1901 with the discovery of oil at Spindletop, Texas. A group of investors came together to promote the development of a modern refinery at nearby Port Arthur to process the oil. The largest investor was William Larimer Mellon of the Pittsburgh Mellon banking family. Other investors included many of Mellon’s Pennsylvania clients as well as some Texas wildcatters (e.g., Bass & Hunt). Mellon Bank and Gulf Oil remained closely associated thereafter. The Gulf Oil Corporation itself was formed in 1907 through the amalgamation of a number of oil businesses, principally the J.M. Guffey Petroleum and Gulf Refining companies of Texas

On October 15, 2000 Chevron announced it would acquire Texaco (NYSE: TX) creating the second largest oil company in the United States and the world’s fourth-largest publicly traded oil company with a combined market value of approximately $95 billion. On October 9, 2001, the shareholders of Chevron and Texaco voted to approve the merger creating ChevronTexaco. The deal was valued at $45 billion.

On May 9, 2005, ChevronTexaco announced it would drop the Texaco moniker and return to the Chevron name. Texaco remains as a brand under the Chevron Corporation.

On April 4, 2005, Chevron announced it planned to purchase Unocal Corporation (NYSE: UCL) for $18.4 billion increasing the company’s petroleum and natural gas reserves by about 15 percent. On August 10, 2005, Unocal Corporation shareholders approved Chevron’s acquisition of the company. The deal was valued at $18 billion. Because of Unocal’s large South East Asian geothermal operations, Chevron became the world’s largest producer of geothermal energy.

In July 2010, Chevron ended retail operations in the Mid Atlantic US, removing the Chevron and Texaco names from 1,100 stations in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., and parts of Tennessee.

On November 9, 2010, Chevron announced it would acquire Pennsylvania based Atlas Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: ATLS) for $3.2 billion in cash and an additional $1.1 billion in existing debt owed by Atlas. On February 18, 2011, the shareholders of Atlas energy voted to approve the merger.