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> Breaking up the monopoly and the price fixing led to lower prices through the system.

Not in the cases I gave.

> Oil barrel prices

Not sure what you mean by this. If you mean crude oil, Standard Oil was not a seller of crude oil; it was a buyer. It bought crude oil and refined it into various products that it sold. The prices of those refined products went up after the breakup.



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