在1904年,91%的产油与85%的石油的最终销售都为标准石油控制。它的产出大多数是煤油,其中55%出口到世界各地。在1900年后,它不再使用价格战排挤竞争对手[20]。联邦商业机构专员(Commissioner of Corporations)研究了标准石油在1904到1906年间的运作,称“毫无疑问......标准石油在石油提炼产业中的统治地位是通过不公战术取得的;操纵输油管与铁路,与通过削减石化产品的价格,用不公方法竞争”[21]。在竞争对手的逐漸蠶食下,在1906年,公司的市场占有率只剩下了70%。同年,对标准石油的反托拉斯控诉失败了。
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^Crow, Carl, Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom, Hong Kong: Earnshawn Books, 2007, pp. 41 - 42.
^Cochran, Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937, University of California Press, 2000, p. 38.
^Anderson, Irvine, The Standard-Vacuum Oil Company and United States East Asian Policy, 1933-1941, Princeton University Press, 1975, p. 16.
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^Armentano, Dominick, Antitrust: The Case for Repeal, Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999, p. 57.
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