Word: doe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly two years, federal investigators have been probing overpricing in the oil industry, and last week they made their biggest charges yet. Even as the General Accounting Office was leaking a report criticizing the Department of Energy for foot dragging in its petro-probes of smaller middlemen, DOE was accusing seven of the largest oil companies of overcharging refineries by $1.7 billion since 1973. The alleged method: selling petroleum at far higher prices than permitted under domestic crude-oil controls...
...major offenders, according to DOE, were Texaco, which is accused of some $888 million in overpricing, and Gulf Oil, with $578 million. Behind them came Standard Oil of California, Atlantic Richfield, Marathon Oil, Standard of Indiana and Standard of Ohio...
...employees, nearly half are employed only to propose, write and enforce regulations. In Houston, the DOE keeps 40 full-time auditors in residence at Shell headquarters, and other companies also have their own in-house bureaucrats hovering in the halls. Much of the DOE'S staff has a self-interest in seeing the regulations proliferate: without them, Government workers would be out of jobs. So would small armies of lawyers in Washington, New York and Houston. Says a rich Houston lawyer: "Government regulations have been a real source of new business. The sums of money involved in DOE regulations...
...Navajo Legal Services, put it, "We're suing the federal government, the first one on the list is James Schlesinger, the Secretary of Energy." The plaintiffs did not choose to indict one federal agency over another since they are all related. The President and the Department of Energy (DOE) jointly make national energy policy, producing Carter's "moral equivalent to war on the energy crisis." The rest of the agencies implement this policy in whichever ways they are most capable. The Interior Department is no exception; orders from DOE are faithfully filled by the Interior Department is no exception; orders...
...gasohol could eventually become competitive with other fuels if gasoline prices continue to rise. In Brazil, where regular gas costs $1.50 per gal., the government has launched a strong program to have all motorists use gasohol by 1982. Skepticism about gasohol still exists at the top levels of the DOE. A yet-to-be-released department study estimates that, under existing conditions, gasohol will account for less than 1% of the motor fuel consumed in the U.S. by 1985. That could change as distilling technology improves and oil prices rise. As one DOE official notes: "Right now, whatever our misgivings...