THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
September 27, 2006 5:56 p.m.
After falling in early trading, crude-oil futures soared nearly $2 a barrel to settle at about $63 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, in what may have been a technical bounce. Here is Wednesday’s roundup of oil and energy news.
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7-ELEVEN DROPS CITGO: 7-Eleven is dropping Venezuela-backed Citgo as its gasoline supplier after more than 20 years, as part of a previously announced plan by the convenience store operator to launch its own brand of fuel. And 7-Eleven is worried that anti-American comments made by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez might prompt motorists to fill-up elsewhere. Mr. Chavez has called President Bush the devil and an alcoholic. The U.S. government has warned that Mr. Chavez is a destabilizing force in Latin America.
•California Greenhouse-Gas Bill: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a sweeping global warming initiative that imposes the nation’s first cap on greenhouse-gas emissions, saying the effort kicks off “a bold new era of environmental protection.”
•China’s New Pipeline: China’s economic planners have approved the construction of a natural-gas pipeline from the country’s northwest to its south to transport gas imported from Turkmenistan.
•China’s Oil Search: China’s “insatiable thirst” for oil is leading it to search far-flung corners of the globe — and into relationships troubling to the U.S., Bloomberg reports.
•Iraq, China Talk Oil Deal: China could land lucrative business developing Iraqi oil resources, possibly by reviving Saddam-era contracts, Reuters reports.
•Western Oil’s Iraq Foray backed: Though many shareholders of Canada’s Western Oil Sands Inc. object, at least one believes the company’s plans to spend millions in Iraq is a good idea.
•Vietnam’s New Pipeline: State-owned Vietnam Oil & Gas Corp., known as PetroVietnam, signed a contract with Malaysia-based Nacap Asia Pacific to build a 40-kilometer natural-gas pipeline in southern Vietnam.
•Pump Politics: The decline in gasoline prices as the election approaches is a coincidence, not a conspiracy, the Houston Chronicle editorial board argues.
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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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