Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-07-11
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With Shell Union Oil Company having numerous nbs
diaries n the United States itself subsidiary Of the ENG
LAND CONTROLLED Royal Dutch Shell Co., continuing ITS
program Of ntrenchng itself throughout the length and
breadth Of our country and importing millions Of barrels Of
both crude gasoline sell to American citizens N direct
competition with American producers and American abore
there but way to prevent powerful American on interests
from striving maintain their prestige by forcing mergers
consultations and restoring to unfair trade practices 70 az
their goal That way is to ABSOLUTELY STOP ne
importation Of gasoline either by embargo or tariff
that is prohibtive And further place tariff on the I'M
poraOn Of crude oil from South America and all other cOun
tresa tariff sufficiently high to permit California and MD
continent compete with it the Atlantic seaDoard
This will eliminate Shells advantage American com
panes the United States the richest OIL market IN the
world It will eliminate the desperate fight OF American
companies to achieve practical monopoly in order to meet
n position to compromise by gentlemens agreement upon
Of business with the public paying through the nose
In world markets American companies have already lost
their dominating position to the riumvirate OF oil combines
controlled by the government Of England
that indirectly Shell maintains an active
lobby Washington It is no secret that sheL does nor
own one barrel Of production barrel Of refinery capac
ity in eastern United States but supplies ~ nense s
in that territory with imported gasohne made rom
crude oil Dutch island, by non and
transported the United States by tankers flying foreign
Several large oil groups order to either meet
this foreign competition to make few more dollars en-
tered the importing game and find themselves 10 po
ston where they must front the fight for Shell against
tariff the vaue Of their enormous foreign investments
in South America greatly reduced
In the meantime the fight for supremacy goes happily
forward with of thousands Of innocent independents De
ing ruined all good American citizens while our government
sideines recommending commission, or ADVISORY
board.
There are laws against trusts monopoies unfair trade
practices yet just look about investigate and then reach your
conclusion whether the oil companies have mol g
nored all Of them
The Oil News stl maintains that the campaign Of Shell
to quickly itself dominating position In the I'm
States using heapy produced foreign crude and gasoline
give the advantage needed the basic cause OF the I'M
satisfactory condition the industry in this country has ex
perenced several years rather than the much heraded o
reproduction of crude local gasoline the mythical and
imaginary estimated potential production used to bunk the
dear public.
The suffering especially Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and
California has been ptable Fortunately New Mexico com
paativey oil producing state of flush production has
escaped the widespread effects
Many credited with the low price Of crude
gasoline among them many filling stations duplicated
pipeline facilities yet isn't it that most Of these
said results Of the major groups striving deper
ately to prevent Shell from achieving such dominating
son that their very existence at Shells merey-wh
Shell becoming the most powerful influence either domestic OF
foreign federal government. Think It
Every American citizen every foreigner IN the
United States with for his adopted nation should show
strong preference for gasoline and oil produced the
United States by nonmporng companies and those not asso
neand fight for tariff crude and that viii exclude
eated with subsidiaries Of the importers of crude gaso
gasoline mports-The Oil News