Fantasy Business Story

      (based upon theory, NOT an actual example)

• Chevron pays Sani Abacha of Nigeria to allow for exploration operations.

• Chevron gets investment $ from JP Morgan Chase after finding a likely oil deposit in Nigeria.

• Chase demands a percentage of the anticipated profits.

• Chevron asks Abacha to allow oil extraction work and offers a deal to Abacha.

• Chevron unearths the oil, and transports it to a Koch Industries refinery.

• Chevron pays workers for drilling, transporting, maintaining, repairing, doing research, etc.

• Koch pays Chevron for the unprocessed crude oil.

• Koch sends the refined oil, now transformed into kerosene, through a pipeline to an airport.

• Southwest pays Koch for the kerosene (jet-fuel).

• I give Southwest money to book a seat on a flight.

• Southwest flies the airplane to its destination - by burning the fuel, it creates pollution.

After paying for

• worker salaries,
• equipment,
• advertising,
• taxes,
• lobbyists,
• etc.

…the

• airline,
• oil company,
• dictator,
• refinery owner,
• and investors

all get some percentage of the money I gave Southwest.