Word: texaco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from last year throughout the Northeast, the region that uses the most fuel. Even more important has been the drop in gasoline use. Last year prices rose 35%, to a current nationwide average of approximately $1.09 per gal. for unleaded regular, and last week several oil companies, including Texaco, Shell and Chevron announced new increases of from 2? to 5? per gal. As prices have climbed, consumption has slumped to about 95% of 1978's level...
...there are certain guys in and around Brooklyn who have been hijacking 3,000-gal. gasoline trucks for a month or so and making themselves a nice piece of change. So far, they have knocked over at least 15 belonging to Texaco, Mobil, Exxon and others. The companies store gasoline and oil in Greenpoint, a factory area in Brooklyn where the barges come up Newtown Creek and unload. The gas is trucked around New York City, and it does not take a genius to know that the trucks all have to take the same main roads...