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...many stupid jobs in my life I can't believe it. I think the most contented job I ever had in my entire life was pumping gas at Chevron station at the west bound exit off the highway 401. I wore overalls that said Ed. Sometimes people would ask me, "So Ed...?" It was great, like...
...Sheaffer Pen Co., are nevertheless willing to gamble on their future. The town has already known its share of heartbreak. In 1976 lightning struck the local J.C. Penney outlet and burned it down; it was never rebuilt. Through the 1980s, the town's largest employers -- Sheaffer and Chevron -- staged devastating layoffs. Although citizens liked to boast that Fort Madison was "a place where you can raise kids," many drifted away; since 1987 the town's tax base has dwindled 20%. To attract Goldstein and his $10 million Emerald Lady, Fort Madison floated a $2.2 million bond issue that financed...
Bush, a former oilman, knows well the visceral animosity most people feel toward America's major oil companies. A survey by the American Petroleum Institute, the industry's trade group, finds that 72% of Americans view Big Oil unfavorably. A study by Chevron shows that 65% of citizens say they cannot believe anything the industry says about the gulf war. Most Americans think -- incorrectly -- that oil is more profitable than most businesses, a view that is reinforcing cries in Congress for a windfall-profits...
...search for new revenues, politicians gazed covetously last week at some very rich oil companies whose profits have skyrocketed following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing run-up of petroleum prices. The firms included Chevron, which last week reported earnings of $633 million for the fourth quarter of 1990, an eightfold increase over the final quarter of the previous year. After such reports, Democrats Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut introduced a Senate bill for a windfall- profits tax on Big Oil to help...
...sought to help restrain prices. After being admonished by Bush last August to refrain from profiteering at the gasoline pump, Big Oil has become mindful of its image and eager to forestall congressional moves to pass a windfall-profits tax. When the gulf fighting started, such energy giants as Chevron, Mobil and Shell pledged to freeze gasoline prices at company-owned stations. (The U.S. average for regular unleaded fuel was $1.24 per gal. as the war broke out, in contrast to $1.01 last August, just before the Iraqi invasion.) Shell, Exxon and other firms later cut their wholesale prices about...