A New Jersey Court case against Shell Oil Products alleges predatory conduct by the oil giant against a small company, Wexco Industries. Allegations against Shell include fraud and misrepresentation.

For several years, Shell Oil Products, a division of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, has been involved in a sleazy fraud perpetrated on customers at an oil lube chain in Illinois.

Is skullduggery by the oil giant Shell in far away Nigeria responsible for crimping the flow of oil, resulting in artificially inflated oil prices and alleged price gouging at the gas pump?