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With majors fencing off the most profitable markets for themselves, jobbers are looking to amend state franchise laws to prohibit redlining in hopes of ensuring their long-term survival. A model [...]

Colombia Decides to Freeze Gasoline Prices The Colombian government has decided to freeze gasoline prices for the rest of the year as a precaution against the international market's bullishness. Prices [...]

Argentina Tries Again to Limit Refiner Power In its ongoing attempt to limit the power of the three big refiners and the fuel prices they command, Argentina's consumer agency will [...]

New MTBE Bill Fails to Cheer Oil Industry Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Bob Smith (R-N.H.) is staying on course to build in a mandate for renewable fuels [...]

To alleviate the threat of inflation, the government has scrapped a 3% customs duty on gasoline imports and a 4% levy on diesel shipments. The abolition of the tariffs, which [...]

Australian Majors to Be Audited Major oil companies operating in Australia will be audited to ensure that they have been complying with laws limiting the number of service stations they [...]

Feinstein Comments Indicate Uphill Climb for MTBE Phase-Out Bill Comments by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) over the weekend reveal that presidential politics is ruining chances of passage for legislation that [...]

In an indication of the horse trading he may need to get oil- and farm-interest backing before legislative action he plans in September, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has refrained from using its regulatory steamroller to further control gasoline benzene emissions, but the decision is not sitting well with state and local regulators. [...]

Vice President Albert Gore, Jr. asked the FTC to conduct its Midwest price gas investigation in public, during a June 29 campaign stop in Chicago. FTC officials avoided responding directly, [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal last week to loosen rules for ethanol-blended reformulated gasoline (RFG) is getting a cool response from ethanol producers and a guarded greeting from the [...]

Berating the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for inaction, Wisconsin on Thursday filed a legal petition against the federal agency for failing to grant necessary relief from a new reformulated gasoline [...]

Oil companies are in the spotlight this week - but theirs is not the 15 minutes of fame of which CEOs dream. Under the leadership of House Speaker Dennis Hastert [...]

A panel hearing Wednesday offered a preview of the possible tussle to come next week - over a provision favoring ethanol - when the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee [...]

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said Tuesday that the federal government likely will grant more cities waivers from having to sell new reformulated gasoline (RFG). Several US cities have asked the [...]

With barely 10 days left for the stringent reformulated gasoline (RFG) Phase II program to kick in, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week granted a temporary waiver to St. [...]

High retail gasoline prices in California this year and in 1999 have prompted the state's attorney general to call for the creation of a strategic gasoline reserve in the state. [...]

In a move aimed at discouraging widespread smuggling of gasoline and diesel fuel, the Ecuadorean government has decided to militarize gasoline stations in its border provinces and to prohibit the [...]

Key congressional committees are grappling with issues surrounding the reformulated gasoline (RFG) mandate to come up with an appropriate legislative solution, but vocal advocates of ethanol and others could skew [...]

The House Judiciary Committee on Friday attempted to ferret out information on possible discriminatory practices stemming from zone pricing of gasoline that could have antitrust implications. The process saw state [...]

Decision time is looming for the future of Moscow's Central Fuel Co. (CFC) and its board chairman Yuri Shafranik. CFC insiders hope that at an Apr. 7 meeting of the [...]

In the prevailing climate of political one-upmanship in Congress, the Senate is rushing to take up oil issues this week, including suspension of gasoline tax and opening up the Arctic [...]

While many refiners would like to see a relaxation in the deadline for meeting Phase II reformulated gasoline specifications, there are no signs that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is [...]

The oil industry and Congress gave a tepid welcome to the administration's plan for combating high oil prices which, among other things, recommends tax breaks for domestic producers and creation [...]

The Clinton administration Thursday is emphasizing energy conservation and alternative fuels in its review of what steps the US can take to tackle high energy prices, but said no decisions [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency's control has issued final regulations mandating reduction in sulfur content in gasoline expected to benefit the fuel cell and electric vehicle industry. The regulations are entitled [...]

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol Browner on Wednesday dodged questions on whether a decision to allow California to phase out the use of gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) [...]

The European Commission has decided to let service stations in Spain, Italy and Greece continue to sell leaded petrol for a further two years. It was initially proposed that the [...]

A US court sided with the oil industry Tuesday, effectively killing language in a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that allowed some 80 more areas of the country to [...]

The Clinton administration on Tuesday unveiled a final rule that slashes sulfur levels in gasoline, but grants US refiners more time and flexibility to meet the new standards than that [...]

The European Commission (EC) said on Monday it had given Italy, Spain, and Greece until Jan. 1, 2002, to enact new laws banning the sale of leaded gasoline, two years [...]

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will issue its final rule today for reducing gasoline sulfur levels by 90% to 30 parts per million (ppm) beginning with 2004-model year vehicles. [...]

When California moves to even cleaner-burning, ether-free reformulated gasoline (RFG) in 2003, it will cost refiners - and eventually consumers - an additional 6.4[cent]/gallon, the CaCalifornia Energy Commission (CEC) said [...]

With time running out before California issues its final rule for cleaner-burning, ether-free gasolines, West Coast refiners and regulators are anxiously awaiting a decision from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [...]

With Friday's release of the California Air Resources Board's (Carb) proposal for Phase 3 reformulated gasoline (RFG), it is clear that not only will California refiners need to produce gasoline [...]

The European Commission will decide later this month whether to allow five European Union (EU) countries to delay implementing EU laws banning lead in gasoline and cutting the sulfur content [...]

for Gasoline As federal regulators seek to make the reformulated gasoline (RFG) program more flexible for refiners in light of the expected phase-out of MTBE use, California regulators continue to [...]

Legislation being proposed by the Senate Democratic leadership mandating the use of renewable fuels -- particularly ethanol -- in gasoline is not getting rave reviews from members of the oil [...]

First the feds and now California -- again. U.S. refiners feel like they just can't get a break these days, especially those with plants in both the Golden State and [...]

* The House Ways and Means Committee has been swamped with requests by groups opposing a higher gasoline tax, including 22 state oil associations, for time to testify at hearings [...]

Despite Court Loss, EPA Defends Sulfur Rule Refiners confused over how a recent court ruling affects the credibility of a proposed rule to cut sulfur levels in gasoline can breathe [...]

California Requires MTBE Labels California on Thursday passed regulations that will require gasoline station owners to place warning labels on pumps that dispense gasoline containing methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), [...]

Industry Tells EPA The Clinton administration's proposed rule to reduce sulfur levels in gasoline rests on a weak foundation -- national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) that were recently remanded [...]

In a rush to eliminate the use of controversial methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) in gasoline, seven counties in Maine have switched to low-vapor-pressure conventional gasoline, a move that environmental [...]

Oil industry lobbyists were keeping quiet Friday about the precise contents of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) costly new proposed rules on gasoline sulfur emissions -- which were due to [...]

From Jet Fuel The day when jet fuel becomes subject to some kind of environmental tax may be drawing nearer. To date, lack of precise evidence has bogged down attempts [...]