Volume 24, Number 8 · May 12, 1977
They Win Every Time
By Robert Lekachman
The Brotherhood of Oil: Energy Policy and the Public Interest
by Robert Engler
University of Chicago Press, 337 pp., $12.50
No doubt about it, the giant energy companies are talented survivors. Think of the crimes fairly or unfairly charged against Exxon and its six large 'sisters': collusion with Arab oil producers, strangling independent operators, withholding available supplies, spoiling the environment, offering bribes at home and abroad, sabotaging solar energy, and wasting an increasingly scarce resource. One would have thought that a country willing on slender evidence to ban saccharin might actually have done something to tame the private government of oil.
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