Natural Disasters and Price Gouging
Fuel supply restrictions resulting from hurricanes and other natural disasters, often lead to price increases as the market reacts to rebalance supply and demand. To protect consumers, many states have enacted price gouging laws that limit a merchant’s ability to raise prices during an emergency.
Our Industries' Response to Harvey
The unprecedented disaster wrought by Hurricane Harvey has the safety of friends, family, colleagues and communities along the Gulf Coast weighing heavy on our minds and hearts.
AFPM Committee Keeps Abreast of the Tech Changes in the Industry
Before I stated my career at AFPM in 2003, there was a committee called the “Computer Committee”.
Petrochemicals Shine Brightly During Eclipse
Everyone’s focus is on the sun today, as millions of Americans gaze upwards to witness the spectacular solar eclipse.
AFPM Statement on Court Ruling for 2016 RVOs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Statement from Chet Thompson, President and CEO of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers in response to today’s ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on the 2016 RVOs
AFPM Statement on Court Ruling for 2016 RVOs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Statement from Chet Thompson, President and CEO of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers in response to today’s ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on the 2016 RVOs:
Good-Paying Jobs – Look No Further than the Refining and Petrochemical Industries
A central theme running through the “Better Deal” economic policy agenda that the Democratic Party rolled out this week is the importance of creating—and protecting—good-paying jobs – jobs that will help boost middle-class incomes and create new economic opportunities nationwide.