By Bangkok Bureau
Last Update: 6:37 AM ET Jul 20, 2007
BANGKOK (MarketWatch) — A Thai unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC plans to renovate its 570 retail gasoline service stations over the next three years at a cost of up to THB1.14 billion ($34 million).
The upgrade aims to boost sales and raise market share to 18% in two years from the current 16.2%, said Simon Hirst, general manager for retail sales and operations at Shell Company of Thailand Ltd.
The company will initially renovate 50 stations in the second half of this year, at a cost of over THB100 million, Hirst told reporters Friday.
During January to May, Shell’s sales of gasoline and diesel products in Thailand totaled 1.1 billion liters, down 3% from a year earlier.
The fall in sales was in line with a decline in retail gasoline consumption in Thailand as rising oil prices have curbed demand.
During the first five months of this year, national consumption of gasoline and diesel totaled 6.753 million liters, down 8.9% from a year earlier.
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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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