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In my rummaging of the New York Times' archives, I found out that in 1912, Kaiser Wilhelm wanted to create a state oil monopoly to wean the nation off of Standard Oil. The plan failed to pass the Reichstag. Germany is quite unique among Western European nations for not ever having a state owned oil company. Britain (BP), France (Total), Italy (Eni), and the Netherlands (Shell) have or have had them. If the plan had come to fruition, what impact would DeutschesErdol have on the oil industry or world politics in general?
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