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Thread #168163 Message #4063266
Posted By: keberoxu
07-Jul-20 - 03:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: there will always be a Texas
Subject: RE: BS: there will always be a Texas
. . . and then there is the history of the Texas Railroad Commission, if I have the name right. When the petroleum industry took off, it was the Railroad Commission which became a regulatory force for the price of petroleum, and in controlling the industry in Texas, this commission ended up power of a multi-national dimension at one time.