Oil is big business in the US. Take a look at the recently released Fortune 500 companies in the US:

2. Exxon
4. Chevron
5. Conoco-Phillips
16. Valero Industry
30. Marathon Oil
40. Dow Chemical
60. Sunoco
75. Hess
and 100: Haliburton.


http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortu...ist/index.html

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