A Linden testing lab agreed last week in federal court to pay $1 million in fines for releasing substandard fuel to gasoline dealers in the tri-state area.

These days, with an eight-week strike crippling the oil industry in Venezuela, just a mile away across the border, gasoline dealers here are doing a steady trade.

He also disputed Mr. Ferrara's claim to the backing of the vast majority of the state's 3,400 gasoline dealers.

I'm sorry to say that people are not going out and hugging gasoline dealers.

One of their warmer friends at this time was a gasoline dealer who owned a new radio station.

On paper, the A.K.A. Petroleum Sales Corporation appeared to be a thriving wholesale gasoline dealer, doing business throughout the New York metropolitan region.

The state was appealing a federal appeals court's decision to block a state law that limited the rent that oil companies could charge to the independent gasoline dealers who lease their stations.

The ruling, on a lawsuit by a gasoline dealer against his supplier, overturned a disputed precedent that regarded limits on retail markups as illegal price fixing.

Commercial establishments in the town include the following: bakeries, gasoline dealers, copra dealers, sari-sari stores, beta houses, carenderias, hardwares, grains retailers, fish dealers, and many more.

Oil prices rose 87 cents, to $39.54, and gasoline dealers across the country got ready to raise their prices for the second time this week.