Into this Wild East of desperate competition-and prices that fluctuated madly as capacity grew either too fast or too slowly-stepped John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil set out to control the industry through a process of " combination" , or monopolisation.

约翰·D·洛克菲勒踏入了这片充满绝望竞争的狂野东部——由于石油产能增长要么太快，要么太慢，当地的石油价格也疯狂波动——他的标准石油公司开始通过“合并”或垄断的过程控制石油行业。