Shane Parrish
speaker
20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It would carry the oil the rest of the way.
If they could do it, they wouldn't need to pay any rebates to Standard Oil.
If it worked, the freight advantages Standard Oil used to control in the industry would be worth nothing.
Inside Standard Oil, the first reaction to hearing this was laughter.
One of Standard's lieutenants wrote to Rockefeller that he was greatly amused by this pipeline scheme.
Rockefeller wasn't laughing, though.
He wrote back cautiously.
They're quite likely to have some disappointments, yet, he predicted, before consummating all of their plans in that direction.
Then he set about manufacturing those disappointments himself.
Standard Oil fought in every direction at once.
They bought up massive strips of land running in straight lines across Pennsylvania.
These became known as deadlines that the pipe would not be able to legally cross.
Bewildered Pennsylvania farmers woke up rich as Standard Oil agents swept through their sleepy towns paying extravagant sums for farmland that had been worth just a fraction of the sum the week before.
Not being able to buy all the land though, Standard and Next planted stories in local papers warning farmers that a pipeline could leak and poison their crops.
Then they started offering cut rates to any refiner who was tempted to become a Tidewater Pipeline customer.
Then they went even a step further and simply bought many of the refineries that were thinking of signing on.
And they also had help.
The railroads, the other party greatly threatened by a pipeline, stepped in and refused the pipe permission to cross their tracks.
But the pipeline was being built anyway.
When it was near completion, Rockefeller quietly offered $300,000 just to buy his own stake in the project.
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