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Thread #131750   Message #2974686
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
28-Aug-10 - 02:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Koch Empire
Subject: RE: BS: Koch Empire
So the Smithsonian Museums support the suggestion that global warming can be countered by human evolution? Oh, my!

The Koch Industries and the Koch brothers are well-publicized in Forbes, WSJ and other business publications; they made Forbes List of richest Americans as 9 and 10.
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Their father perfected the means of converting heavy oil into gasoline. From that beginning, two of the sons, Charles and David, built the largest private owned company in the U. S.
The company employs some 80,000 workers in many countries. Oil, fertilizer, chemicals, forest and consumer products, polymers and plastics inc. Lycra, etc.
Both Charles and David have M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

They do support the conservative Cato think tank. Major charities are cancer research and the Lincoln Center.
Personal fortunes $19 billion each.

Their oil interests may be small in comparison with Shell or Exxon Mobil, but they are involved in deep drilling in the Gulf.