<p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p>
<p>Boxer said an independent audit was needed because the oil company's credibility had been undermined by its inconsistent statements about the refinery and by a massive accounting scandal at parent Royal Dutch/Shell Group.</p>
<font face="verdana,sans-serif" size="2">In a letter to PUC Chairman
Mike Peevey today, Governor Schwarzenegger announced his intention to
send California back into the throes of energy deregulation, putting as
much as a quarter of the...</font>
<p class="source">San Jose Mercury News</p>
<p>The state's budget crisis has gone well past the point where it can continue to pick the pockets of taxpayers while lining the pockets of pharmaceutical companies. California should demand the same deal it gets on office equipment or tires: Big buyers ge</p>
<h3>SUPPLIERS REAP GASOLINE PROFITS</h3><p class="source">The Arizona Republic</p>
<p>FTCR recently published a report that correlated oil company profits with retail gas prices. Court found that from 2002 to 2003, a 31 percent increase in gasoline prices translated into a 90 percent increase in profits at the five largest oil companies in</p>
<p class="source">The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois)</p>
<p>It's time for lawmakers to ignore the squeaky wheels, usually called special interests, and get to the bottom of why gasoline prices can jump 20 cents a gallon overnight.</p>