THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
July 19, 2006 6:59 p.m.
Crude-oil futures tumbled for the third consecutive day, falling nearly $1 a barrel to settle at less than $73 after U.S. government data showed continuing gains in oil and gasoline supplies. Oil prices have lost nearly 6% in the three trading days since settling at a record high of more than $77 a barrel. Here’s Wednesday’s roundup of oil and energy news.
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INDIA UNVEILS RESERVE PLANS: India will start building its first strategic crude-oil storage facility in January at Vizag in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, a government official told The Wall Street Journal. The facility will have a capacity of one million tons, or 7.33 million barrels, of crude oil, and will be ready in January 2010. Two more crude-storage facilities, with even bigger capacities, will also be built. The reserves reflect India’s growing demand for energy supplies and could help keep a floor under global oil prices.
•BP Shuts Down Wells: BP PLC is closing 12 oil wells on Alaska’s North Slope as a precaution after whistleblowers alleged more than 50 were leaking. The action came after workers told the Financial Times about the leaks (subscription required).
•Plan for CAFE Standards: A bipartisan group of senators is trying a new tack in the long-standing effort to raise fuel economy standards: Require an increase unless the Transportation Department can show it’s a bad idea, Washington Wire reports.
•Energy Blameless in CPI Gain: The U.S. consumer price index, a key measure of consumer price inflation rose in June despite the first decline in energy prices since February.
•Hydro Power: With gasoline prices hovering around $3 a gallon, a select group of government workers, academics and individuals are testing hydrogen-powered vehicles in demonstration projects across the U.S., the Associated Press reports.
•Turning Down the Juice: At the request of New York City power-grid operators, big electricity customers used less juice, helping ease the strain on the system even as temperatures soared.
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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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