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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He was refused.
In May 1879, the Great Pump's word to life and the oil started its journey east.
Nobody knew if it could climb the mountains.
For seven full days, the whole oil world tracked its slow crawl across Pennsylvania up over the mountains.
Then finally, the first oil sputtered out at the far end, 109 miles away.
The oil regions erupted in jubilation.
The newspaper ranked the pipeline among the great engineering feats of the age.
The damn thing worked.
Inside Standard Oil, there was silence.
One Standard Oil executive wrote to Rockefeller that I feel extremely satisfied that the tidewater pipeline can be stopped and torn up if it is thought best to do it.
I think that the sooner the tidewater knows this, the better.
Rockefeller vetoed this idea.
He had something more elegant in mind.
He reached for his old playbook.
Standard Oil cut its rates and the railroads cut theirs to levels one freight agent said barely covered the wheel grease on the railroads.
This price war soon had the new pipeline running at half capacity.
And then came a twist that says more about the era than any conspiracy actually could.
The men behind Tidewater Pipeline had begun discussing how they might keep anyone else from building a pipeline like it.
The pipeline that was built to break the Standard Oil monopoly now wanted to protect their own monopoly.
Rockefeller did what he always did when he couldn't kill a thing.
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