oil companies
Fossil fuel corporations
Oil companies are businesses that explore for, extract, refine, and sell petroleum products.
The term encompasses everything from small regional drillers to multinational giants like ExxonMobil and Shell.
In public discourse, oil companies often appear as villains in debates over climate change, environmental damage, and energy policy: The oil companies knew about global warming decades ago.
Big Oil is a collective term for the industry's largest players and their political influence.
- petroleum industryCrude extraction and refining businesses
- big oilLarge petroleum quantity
- corporationsLegally incorporated business entities
- price gougingExcessive pricing during crises
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- raw material producersminers, farmers, ranchers, fisheries, coffee growers
- Latin American utilitieswater utilities
- Oil Marketsoil prices, petroleum, oil production, oil reserves, OPEC
- energy policyenergy policy, energy bills, energy independence, energy security, energy efficiency
- state enterprisesstate enterprises, Amtrak, BBC, public enterprises, USPS
- competitive organizationssports teams, corporations, political parties, sports leagues, airlines
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