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To: Thomas M. who wrote (41405)6/22/2000 11:14:00 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 42523
 
What I am saying is that the rise in gasoline prices from around 30 cents a gallon to over a dollar a gallon occured *during* the embargo. I was there, I saw it.

Here is another fact I have never mentioned, because it sounds like black helicopter nonsense. I started working at Exxon Refinery Baton Rouge in 1973, when the United States government required government contractors to hire women. I was the first woman process operator in the country. Through the grape vine, the people who were working on the docks said that there was, in fact, an oil glut, that tankers carrying crude were being turned away from the docks because the tanks in the fields were full. The people working at Exxon were just blue collar workers, but they were the best because Exxon paid the best and could pick and choose. I was making $5 an hour as an apprentice in 1973.

The scuttlebutt was that the company wasn't reducing prices even though it could, because who in their right mind would?
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