Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110413:20:48:00
The oil companies have effectively sidelined technology that would change the game, so to speak? >> well, interesting enough with tomming oit really wasn't any type of conspiracy or something that was difficult for us to find. it was documented in the el paso times with eyewitnesses and we spoke to them and -- >> there's really no secret that the oil industry's buying patents. chevron tookç out an ad in "popular science" listing they purchased 10,000 patents in one year. it's just smart business on their standpoint. they have got the money. they purchase a competitive threat to their industr...