Chapter 247 Snatching the North American Electricity Market
How to occupy a larger share in the US market is a problem that Seryozha and Gorky Financial Group must face in order to survive. Just because the United States is the most mature capitalist market in the world, apart from emerging high-tech industries, whether it is the energy industry, manufacturing industry, or the financial industry, they have long been carved up by those big consortia. As a participant in the game, the Gorky Consortium will inevitably snatch part of the market and benefits from these consortiums. The difficulty of this can be imagined.
The Gorky Consortium participated in a lot of money laundering businesses during the founding stage. No matter what, these things are like a bomb that may bring disaster to the Gorky Consortium at any time. If you want to completely whitewash the Gorky Brotherhood and turn it into a legally recognized large consortium, and participate in the distribution of interests in the United States under the sun, you have to break out of the American market that has been carved up by the American consortia. Come your own way and expand your control and influence as much as possible.
The Gorky Consortium is now the largest consortium in the UK. It controls the UK's water supply, natural gas, and more than half of the electricity market. Basically every British family is contributing profits to the Gorky Consortium. In Germany, the Gorky Consortium controls half of the Federal German auto industry, and more than one-tenth of West German workers work for the Gorky Consortium. In Italy, the Gorky Consortium teamed up with the Mafia to monopolize the entire Mediterranean shipping industry, and also indirectly controlled the Italian domestic natural gas market and foreign trade market. In addition, the Gorky Consortium is gradually infiltrating the socialist camp in Eastern Europe, which is about to change. These Gorky Consortia alone have no opponents in Europe.
But Europe is not the center of the world after all, no matter how hard Seryozha struggles in Europe, he cannot truly obtain absolute security. So Seryozha's ultimate goal is to gain a firm foothold in the United States. A year ago, Seryozha used the Blackstone Group to acquire an unknown large energy company-Enron Group of the United States, and retained the company's management. Seryozha bought this company because he knew that this company would grow into the world's largest energy company and energy trading platform in the future, and eventually went bankrupt overnight due to financial fraud. However, how Enron grew from a small company in Texas to the world's largest energy giant in more than ten years, this process is not clear to Seryozha. It wasn't until recently that Kenneth Wray, the CEO of Enron Group, imported cheap natural gas from Europe in large quantities, which inspired Seryozha.
Kenneth Ray's business strategy is very simple. He successfully converted the fuel of traditional thermal power plants from coal to natural gas by transforming his power plants. And it is directly transported to the power plant through the gas pipeline. In today's world, natural gas has not yet replaced coal as the mainstream energy source. But because natural gas is a clean energy source, it is favored by environmental protection groups, so this transformation not only achieved economic success, but also won a good social reputation for Enron.
Kenneth Ray wanted to acquire and renovate more power plants, which inspired Sergesha very much. Electricity is the basic driving force of industry, and controlling electricity is equivalent to controlling American industry. And Kenneth Ray's Enron Corporation seemed to be the right key for the Gorky Group to open up the American market.
Seryosha now controls a large amount of natural gas resources,
Not only in the Soviet Union, but also in the United States. After all, Occidental Petroleum is one of the top ten oil industry groups in the United States. Just after the death of Comrade Hamer last year, the entire Occidental Petroleum Company has completely become an enterprise fully controlled by the Gorky Financial Group. With the help of Comrade Hamer's hard work, Seriosha not only owns a large number of oil and gas fields, but also has a mature petrochemical and chemical industry chain. In addition, Western Petroleum is also the largest beef cattle production company in the United States. Let Seryozha become the largest rancher in the United States at once.
Now it seems that the combination of Occidental Petroleum's natural gas fields in North America and Enron Group will set off a clean energy revolution in the US electricity market. This is a rare opportunity for Seryozha to control the US electricity market. Seryozha can completely hide behind the scenes and manipulate all this quietly. He can donate money to those environmental groups and ask them to go to those power plants that still refuse to transform and continue to use coal to protest. Don't underestimate the power of these civil society groups. They represent votes in the United States, and votes are the lifeblood of politicians. These non-governmental environmental groups can drive politicians to pass relevant environmental protection bills. It would definitely be in Enron's interest to force these coal-fired power plants to switch to natural gas.
After figuring out these reasons, Seryozha asked Karim to check whether there are suitable environmental protection groups in the United States and Europe. Seryozha could foster these groups through funding. Karim has become very adept at using politics for her own business ends. Seryozha felt that this might be inherited from the character of Karim's father, Amin, a politician. Since Griffith was successfully elected governor of South Dakota, Karim has applied the model of fostering political surrogates to North Dakota, Iowa, and Alabama. Karim obtained agents by looking for potential politicians to provide them with campaign funds, and when these politicians were elected, they would naturally reciprocate the companies under Karim. In this way, Monsanto's seed products have successfully occupied the seed industry markets in the above-mentioned states.
However, it is far from enough to achieve this level. Xie Liaosha also has the largest restaurant chain company in the United States, McDonald's. You must know that McDonald's is the world's largest purchaser of ground beef, tomatoes, cabbage and other agricultural products. In order to ensure that the taste of each restaurant is basically the same, McDonald's has strict restrictions on suppliers. They can refine to the specific details such as the environment and feed of beef cattle. If you do not raise beef cattle according to McDonald's requirements, you cannot become a McDonald's supplier. McDonald's mandates that there be enough corn and soybeans in the feed as raw materials. This is actually expanding the market for Monsanto. After all, there is no corn or soybean that can be produced at a lower cost than Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds. , completed the de facto monopoly.