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Big Energy Firms Crimping Oil Supplies
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112606X.shtml
An Associated Press analysis suggests that big oil companies have been crimping
supplies in subtler ways across the country for years. The analysis, based on
data from the US Energy Information Administration, indicates that the industry
slacked off supplying oil and gasoline during the prolonged price boom between
early 1999 and last summer, when prices began to fall.