big oil
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[edit]- (business, derogatory) The world's largest oil and gas companies (supermajors), understood as a business group having significant political, economic, or social power.
- 2005 May, Bill McKibben, “Climate of Denial”, in Mother Jones[1]:
- Eight years after Kyoto, Big Oil and Big Coal remain in complete and unchallenged power.