He joined Hammer's Occidental Petroleum when it was one of the "Seven Sisters" - the cartel of western oil companies that controlled the oil price paid to oil rich countries.
Occidental Petroleum (Hammer & Gore) broke with the Seven Sisters and made a separate deal with Libya.
The Seven Sisters' control of oil prices collapsed as did America's cheap oil economy.
In short time the West got the OPEC cartel, oil embargoes, the weakening of western economies, the rise of Islamic wealth and its funding of radical Islamism.
Now, the Hammer family gets a museum and the Gore family gets richer by again sabotaging America's economy.
Funny thing though.... When the oil companies operating out of Midland/Odessa crashed in the 80's Oxy came in behind them and bought them all out (well, to be fair most of them) as they went belly-up.
If you go to the Permian Basin in West Texas/Eastern NM today, you'll now see Oxy signs on idle pumpjacks as far as the eye can see (not pumped out mind you, just idle - waiting for the "cost to pull" to crest the "price to sell").
Of course, the inventor of the Internet and the savior of the environment is still heavily invested in his daddy's old oil company (well, actually his mom is - but she's gotta be about 137 years old by now, so who's really running that portfolio??). So once we bleed the Arabs dry, he (they?) will make a killing selling "Texas Tea". Or he (again, to be fair - Oxy) can always line his pockets by "replenishing the SPR" again like he did when Clinton tapped it. I'm sure Obama will find an excuse to burn up some of that good old "Strategic Petro" next time it hard-freezes for more than a week in liberal-land.
It's almost as if they planned it or something. Kind of reminds me of the left's wacky old "Bush/Cheney big oil connections" canard - but accurate for a change.