oil barons
Crude wealth moguls
Oil barons are powerful figures who control large portions of the petroleum industry and amass enormous wealth from it.
The term evokes the early American oil magnates like John D.
Rockefeller, suggesting both vast riches and ruthless business practices.
Today it applies to executives of major oil companies or wealthy individuals whose fortunes derive from petroleum: The oil barons lobbied against climate legislation.
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
- petroleumNatural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- monopolyOne seller, no substitutes
- cartelsCollusive business alliances
- Teapot Dome1920s federal bribery affair
John D. Rockefeller · OPEC · magnates · black gold · fossil fuel · drill · drilling rights · petrodollars · energy sector · derricks · oligarchy · wealth · old money · geopolitics · refinery · carbon emissions · Texas · mansions
- petroleumcrude, petroleum, oilfields, kerosene, diesel fuel
- Early 1900sroaring twenties, flapper, jazz, speakeasy, prohibition
- eliteselites, plutocrats, oligarchs, aristocrats, blue bloods
- wealthy peoplebillionaires, millionaires, media moguls, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos
- Oil Historypetroleum, derricks, drilling rigs, drilling, gushers
- tycoonstycoons, railroad tycoon, John Rockefeller, magnates, moguls
oil baronsthe poor
the working class · roughnecks · paupers · laborers · the proletariat
oil baronsclimate activists
People demanding environmental action
environmentalists · conservationists · environmental activists · eco-warriors · Greta Thunberg