The American oil industry :  a failure of anti-trust policy / 
a study of the structure and operations of the oil industry and the need for immediate and effective anti-trust action published by the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, prepared by Stanley H. Ruttenberg and Associates, Inc., Norman Medvin, Senior Consultant. 
 - New York :  Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association,  1973. 
 - viii, 160 pages :  illustrations, charts, graphs ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes appendices. 
<br/><br/>Chapter I. Purpose of study -- II. Basic facts about the oil industry -- III. Control of competing energy sources -- IV. Gasification and liquefaction of coal -- V. Joint ventures and the oil industry -- VI. Director interlocks in the oil industry -- VII. Oil companies and financial institutions -- VIII. The oil industry and accounting services -- IX. Summary and recommendations. 
<br/><br/> "The study demonstrates what many of us have long suspected: there is a hard core of joint action and control in the oil industry surrounded at its periphery by semi-independent fiefdoms which offer a somewhat deceptive patina of truly independent competition. The study reveals the multiple ties within the oil industry, in what may be a flagrant disregard of the spirit and specific application of the antitrust laws. Furthermore, the study spotlights the harmony in which the oil industry operates - and puts the harsh light of disclosure on the industry's policy of acquiring competing forms of energy." -- From the foreword. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label> $4.00 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>76353092  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Petroleum industry and trade--United States.<br/>Power resources--United States.<br/>Joint ventures--United States.<br/>Petroleum reserves
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD 9566  / .S77 1973 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.2/7/2820973