My TFOC Love for artfight!!! (and backstory)
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Prices were collapsing worldwide on the brink of the Great Depression, and this induced a price war among the major oil companies. Like the other leading oil companies, AIOC had two options: compete to win new markets for investment or set up joint ventures with other companies and divide markets among them. In response, AIOC actively pursued a parallel policy on world oil production, prices, and synthetic fuel technology. In August 1928, during the same period as his meeting with Iranian government officials in Switzerland, [John Cadman, chairman of AIOC] traveled to Achnacarry, Scotland, and agreed with the heads of the major international oil companies such as Standard Oil of New Jersey, Royal Dutch / Shell, Gulf Oil, and Standard Oil of Indiana to enter into a “Pool Association” or “As-Is” agreement. This monopoly arrangement was designed to manage the glut of oil supplies by establishing a uniform selling price so that participants would not have to worry about price competition. The group agreed to control world oil production as well, enabling the companies to increase their output above volumes indicated by their market quotas, but only so long as the extra production was sold to the other pool members.
The “As-Is” agreement additionally formed part of a much larger “hydrocarbon cartel” concerning not just oil but the chemical and coal industries. The goal was to control the chemical industry and block the coal industry from accessing the patented use of a hydrogenation technology known as the Bergius process that could be used to convert coal into oil and develop synthetic fuels. The agreement ensured that chemical firms were blocked from using the new technologies to make chemicals, synthetic rubbers, and fuels from the conversion of coal into synthetic oil. Such arrangements would help maintain a particular economy of oil through the construction of an artificial system of scarcity.
Katayoun Shafiee, Machineries of Oil: An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran, 2018
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NEWS — Album 74 Summary and Artwork
NEWS — Album 74 Summary and Artwork
https://archive.org/download/AAN082522/8-25-22.mp3
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supersons charms & stickers for AIOC (if the charms make it in time...)
I'll have them in my shop post con!
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forgot to post here but my texlapp sticker for AIOC's stamp rally :)
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eira and lance belong to mr. abdillustrates !
wouldn't it be funny if lance just so happened to have one of the hale family smithys swords and just happened to pull it out against eira
during the concrunch for both AIOC and Anime Riverside i ran thru hours of videos and half of them were from mr. abdillustrates
so naturally at least one doodle made it out of sketch prison
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