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Article: California Clean-Air Regulator Sees Price-Fixing by Oil Companies.

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Aug. 10--"In research the horizon recedes as we advance, and is no nearer at sixty than it was at twenty. ... And research is always incomplete."

---Mark Pattison, 1813-1884

If Ron Roberts, the county supervisor, ever goes out looking for a little help from his friends at the oil companies, he'll wind up looking elsewhere. Ron Roberts has no friends at the oil companies.

Not that they haven't offered. On one of his visits to Sacramento as a member of the state Air Resources Board, Roberts said in an interview last week, an industry lobbyist approached him and -- to use his word -- "shared" that the oil ...

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