Gasoline Price Probe Ordered in Britain
From Reuters
LONDON —
Britain’s watchdog Office of Fair Trading said it is investigating charges of gasoline price-fixing by major oil companies.
The office’s director-general, Sir Gordon Borrie, said he was ordering the probe after a parliamentary report last July accused big oil firms of colluding to keep prices high at British filling stations, despite falling world oil prices.
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