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...around the U.S., the lament is the same: in ways both devious and sinister, and too mystifying to understand, Big Oil is somehow out to rip off the public. Says Irene McMackin, a Milwaukee public relations consultant: "I just don't feel the crisis is real. I don't trust the oil companies." Adds William Meier, an Indiana insurance agent: "My emotional
...debate over decontrol and Carter's call for a windfall profits tax intensifies, the President has been amplifying charges made more than a year ago that the industry is plotting "the biggest rip-off in history." Now, Carter is actually
...Rip van Winkle, a very short opera--Dunster Library...
Deadly twisters rip along the Texas-Oklahoma border, killing at least...
...companies. Two days after his nationally televised energy message, with its harsh attack on the oil industry, the President defended his decontrol program before a Democratic fund-raising dinner by saying, "I will not allow this painful but necessary step to become an excuse for a massive rip-off of the American people by American oil companies. They are going to be all over Capitol Hill like a chicken on a June bug. They say they have more influence on Congress than the American people have. I say, let's prove them wrong." Ultimately, oilmen may find it easier...