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Article: Clean Air Trust: Oil Companies Make Nearly $15 Billion In Second- Quarter Profits
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- August 9, 2000
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released
today by Clean Air Trust
CLEAN AIR BULLETIN
Oil Companies Make Nearly $15 Billion In Second-Quarter Profits
TO: EDITORS AND REPORTERS COVERING THE ENVIRONMENT
FROM: Frank O'Donnell
DATE: August 9, 2000
Most big oil companies continue to oppose efforts to clean up
dirty diesel fuel. Too costly, they insist. They also claim they
were the helpless victims of "market forces" that drove up gas
prices earlier this summer.
What do you think? Please note that these 12 companies alone
made nearly $15 billion in profits in the second quarter of this
year alone -- about quadruple what they collectively would have to
spend cleaning ...
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