Petroleum Study (gasoline and Oil Price Increases): Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, First Session on Recent Price Increases of Gasoline and Oil, July 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 23, 1953U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - 752 páginas |
Palavras e frases frequentes
25 cents amount answer average BAKER barrel unit barrels per day BROOMFIELD Bureau of Mines BURKS cent a gallon cents a barrel cents per gallon CHAIRMAN coast committee competition conservation consumer crude oil crude-oil prices dealers depletion allowance dollars drilling earnings East effect Esso estimated field figures fuel oil going HADLICK HARRIS hearings heating oil HESELTON imports income increased costs independent refiner interest Interstate Oil Compact jobbers July July 23 June KEELER market demand Michigan million barrels oil and gas oil industry oil production operating PELLY percent petroleum industry petroleum products Phillips Petroleum Co price increase price of crude price of gasoline profit purchase question Railroad Commission refinery reserves reservoir retail sell SPRINGER Standard Oil Standard Oil Co statement stations stocks supply Texas Texas Railroad Commission THOMPSON tion United Venezuela WILLETTS
Passagens conhecidas
Página 46 - It is not the purpose of this compact to authorize the States joining herein to limit the production of oil or gas for the purpose of stabilizing or fixing the price thereof, or create or perpetuate monopoly, or to promote regimentation, but is limited to the purpose of conserving oil and gas and preventing the avoidable waste thereof within reasonable limitations.
Página 732 - Article IV. The duty of the said commission shall be to make inquiry and ascertain from time to time such methods, practices, circumstances and conditions as may be disclosed for bringing about the conservation and the prevention of the depletion and physical waste of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, of the Atlantic seaboard.
Página 7 - To prevent competition in manufacturing, making, transportation, sale or purchase of merchandise, produce or any commodity. 4. To fix at any standard or figure, whereby its price to the public or consumer shall be in any manner controlled or established, any article or commodity of merchandise, produce or commerce intended for sale, barter, use or consumption in this State.
Página 732 - Each State bound hereby agrees that within a reasonable time it will enact laws, or if laws have been enacted, then it agrees to continue the same in force, to accomplish within reasonable limits the prevention of; (a) The operation of any oil well with an inefficient gas-oil ratio. (b...
Página 7 - the labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce . . . nor shall such [labor] organizations or the members thereof be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in the restraint of trade under the Anti-Trust laws...
Página 6 - A trust is a combination of capital, skill or acts by two or more persons, firms, partnerships, corporations or associations of persons, or of any two or more of them for either, any or all of the following purposes : 1.
Página 667 - The drowning with water of any stratum capable of producing oil or gas, or both oil and gas in paying quantities. (c) The avoidable escape into the open air or the wasteful burning of gas from a natural gas well. ( d ) The creation of unnecessary fire hazards.
Página 6 - That a special interim committee composed of 5 members of the House, to be appointed by the Speaker, is hereby created to make an investigation of the relationship between the retail price of gasoline in Michigan and its gasoline tax in comparison with the same relationship in other States...
Página 732 - AN INTERSTATE COMPACT TO CONSERVE OIL AND GAS " 'ARTICLE I " 'This agreement may become effective within any compacting state at any time as prescribed by that state, and shall become effective within those states ratifying it whenever any three of the States of Texas, Oklahoma, California, Kansas, and New Mexico has ratified and Congress has given its consent.
Página 732 - Each state bound hereby agrees that it will, within a reasonable time, enact statutes, or if such statutes have been enacted, then it will continue the same In force, providing in effect that oil produced in violation of its valid oil and/or gas conservation statutes or any valid rule, order or regulation promulgated thereunder, shall be denied access to commerce ; and providing for stringent penalties for the waste of either oil or gas.