You know $3.00 PLUS for a gallon of gas is about making some rich folks richer and the rest of us poorer. We haven’t even begun to see the real price we are going to pay for the latest shenanigans from the oil companies. I don’t care what these robber barons claim: someone sneezes in a refinery and production is shut down,
they have to switch the winter gas for the summer gas or some Saudi prince wants a new race horse, I don’t believe them. We are being ripped off every day at the tank.

And why don’t I believe them? Here is why:
10New’s Investigative team did a story two years ago were we exposed how Shell Oil lied about their refinery in Bakersfield. They wanted to shut it down, saying it was a money loser; there was little oil left to pump out of the ground. You know what that means-- with fewer refineries; there is less gas in the pipelines, which means we pay more at the pump. And they make more money for their crude. Our I-team didn’t believe the company because we had internal Shell documents that spoke of the profitability of the oil field, the refinery management had bragged about (in writing) how great things were going at the refinery in an invitation to a Christmas Party! We also heard from refinery workers who talked to us at great risk and a state geologist who told us there was plenty of oil in them thar fields. Eventually U.S.Senator Feinstein got involved and the field stayed open under new ownership. The point being, we caught them in a flat out fib. And trust me; they haven’t stopped doing the dance.

That’s why you should know about www.oilwatch.org It’s a project of Jamie Court—he helped us on the Shell/Bakersfield case. Now he is helping anyone who is interested in the REAL story about this three dollar a gallon rip off. The oil companies don’t like him.
But you should get to know him, through the website www.oilwatch.org

Knowledge is Power.


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