Associated Press – May 16, 2007 2:14 PM ET
As gasoline prices reach new highs leading up to the Memorial Day travel weekend, one station owner is charging rates shocking even San Francisco drivers: $$4-33-cents per gallon for economy grade, and an astonishing $$4-53-cents for premium.
But station owner Bob Oyster says the prices are meant to raise eyebrows. He set his prices far above competitors as a means of protesting onerous franchise rules imposed by Royal Dutch Shell PLC.
After 22 years at the station at the station at Sixth and Harrison, he’s vacating at the end of the month. He says he can’t afford to keep operating on razor-thin margins.
A Shell spokeswoman confirms that Shell wants to raise Oyster’s base rent, but only as a result of a recent commercial real estate audit.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.
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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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