FROM REUTERS
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Furious about gas prices? Watch for a friendly oil executive coming to a town near you.
Top executives at oil giant Shell (RDSa.L: Quote, Profile, Research) have begun a 50-city tour across the United States this summer in hopes of persuading angry consumers that Big Oil is not ripping them off.
The move is the first such effort in the company’s history, as major oil firms try to dampen a U.S. political firestorm over soaring gasoline prices and record earnings for the companies that sell fuel products.
“These are unprecedented times that require unprecedented responses,” John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., the company’s U.S. arm, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Hofmeister and other Shell executives plan to meet with everyone from average Americans struggling to pay rising prices at the pump to city officials and governors on their tour, which recently kicked off in Dallas.
Notorious for its reclusiveness, the U.S. oil industry in recent months has stepped up a public relations campaign to improve its image and thwart a growing movement in Washington to slap higher taxes on profits.
“The industry and Shell has a responsibility to explain what we do, why we do it and how we do it to the American people, and we don’t do enough of it,” Hofmeister said.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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