The Energy Industry Competition and Development Act of 1977, S. 1927: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 1927 and S. 1916 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 |
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Page 184 - ... and managerial expertise to these areas. V. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS There is no monopoly power or threat of monopoly power by any oil company, or group of oil companies, in any individual fuel sector or in total energy. Statistics presented in this paper as well as in the Federal Trade Commission study on energy concentration ratios and oil company diversification do ". . not provide any positive support for the proposal that petroleum companies be banned from acquiring coal or uranium companies;...
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