It's Monday, February 1st.

Welcome to Market Foolery.

I'm Chris Hill with me today.

It's Jason Moser.

Good to see you, my friend.

Good to see you, my friend.

We've got a preview of Amazon's earnings. We are going to dip into the full mail bag.

But I'm going to start with something that happened yesterday, a quiet snowy Sunday here in the Greater Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area and it was lovely.

It was nice to just look outside and see the snow falling in a place where snow doesn't fall very often. and I was snapped back into and I was snapped back into reality

at some point during the day

when I looked at Twitter

and saw the news reported by the Wall Street Journal and Reuters that last year

the CEOs of ExxonMobil and Chevron discuss the possibility of their two companies merging.

And I wasn't around in 1911 when standard oil was broken up,

but I've studied enough of my business history to know that, well, to inform, that was my first thought.

I was like, oh, are we getting the band back to get?

Like, are they going to rename the company

standard oil? I mean what did you think when you first saw this news?

Well I mean the first thing that came to mind was Rockefeller in standard oil.

And time, time certainly have changed since standard oil, right? I mean, the world is slowly but surely evolving its energy

policy and it's clearly going towards renewables, things like solar and wind and batteries and

you know further away from fossil fuels. I mean that's no secret. Now I mean I think the

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