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JDR’s “monopoly” broke up dozens of price-fixing local cartels and made heating oil and kerosene affordable to the comman man for the first time

yes, he was hated for all the smaller companies he consumed or beat out of comepetition, but his retail prices expanded the universe of consumers of oil products, downward in the social strata, making kerosene and later gasoline products that nearly everyone could afford

he out-competed others first by finding uses for by-products of the oil refinery process that others were throwing away (letting run in the streams or water table near the refinery), earning more revenue per barrel of oil than his competitors, from which he was able to lower his prices to consumers, from which he was able to obtain a larger market share, from which he had to ship tons of product by rail, from which he could negotiate better deals with the railroads for transporting his products, from which consumer prices got some of that discount and his revenue continued to grow

to everyone else in the industry, and the trust busters, he was a bad guy

to the consumer he lifted everyones ability to join in being able to use the new energy sources

Good to see the balance of views. I have never studied him, but was he the one who said he minister told him as a boy, “Make all the money you can, and give away all you can?”

Anyway, his belief,

“I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual’s highest fulfilment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will,”

certainly would make good fodder for theological discussion, such as how to reconcile his universal God being of many religions with the same revealed will.

He was also heavily involved in the financing and planning of the attempted globalist/banker/military coup against FDR !

If it weren't for a single US Marine, Smedley Butler, Rockefeller/Rothschild/Carnegie/Bush would have succeeded. General MacArthur, yes that General MacArthur, took bribe money and agreed to march US Army troops into Washington to overthrow the government in exhange for dictatorship.

Marine hero Smedley Butler played along until he had names and dates and went straight to congress and exposed the plot.

Hearings were held but due to corruption and bribery, not a single player did any jail time or faced execution, and even MacArthur was onyl demoted from Secretary of the Army to commander of Pacific forces. That is why he was in the Phillipines during WWII.

Here are several books detailing the single most covered up piece of US History.

Rockefeller rots in hell, and deserves it.