> Chris Holt:

>>>> You'll have to remind me about the history of
>>>> competing private water companies, how they all
>>>> fought to lay a pipe to the door of the customer.
>>>> Or we could go back to Rockefellar and oil, but I
>>>> know you've dismissed that in the past so there's
>>>> no real point.

> Don Kresch

>>> Especially since he never had a monopoly.

> "chris.holt"

>> He was working towards it, with his thugs.

> He was working towards it by radically improving oil
> refining technology, which enabled him to rapidly and
> repeatedly cut the price of petrol. His "monopoly"
> diminished once it was no longer possible to so rapidly
> improve petrol refining, and no longer possible to so
> rapidly reduce the price of petrol.