The Feds’ final approval of the transfer of Shell’s Los Angeles refinery and 250 gas stations in Southern California creates the possibility that an upstart company with refining and distribution capacity could challenge Chevron and…
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Retailers Resist ‘Adjusted’ Price
The petroleum marketers, a.k.a wholesalers and chain operators of truck stops and convenience stores, are organizing a new coalition, P.U.M.P. (the Partnership for Uniform Marketing Practices), to stop the rising momentum to mandate automatic temperature…
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Pressure On The Pump
The Petroleum Marketing Association continues to insist it has not pressured the maker of the temperature-adjusted gasoline pump, Gilbarco Vedeer-Root, to keep its product out of the California market. Nonetheless the San Francisco Chronicle’s David…
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Hot Fuel Solution Derailed By Oil Companies;
NEWS RELEASE:March 5, 2007 CONTACT: Jamie Court (310) 392-0522 ext 327, or Judy Dugan, ext 305 Attorney General Brown, Senator Boxer called on to force sale of temperature-adjusted gasoline pump in California Santa Monica, CA…
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Coolant For The Hot Fuel Market?
The Kansas City Star reports that Americans may well have a way out of the $2.3 billion they overpay at the pump each year because of the "hot fuel" scam. In a nut shell, when…
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“Oil Profit Monster:” A Powerful, Flexible and Free Tool
To go directly to Profit Monster’s Excel database, click here. OilWatchdog’s database pulls together quarterly and annual profits, by sector, of the five major oil companies from 2000 to the present. It uniquely includes companies…