Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish · ¶23

President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Petroleum Administration for War (P. A. W.) to ensure that the United States would have enough fuel to win the war. See id., at 14–15, 44–45. The P. A. W. oversaw the entire oil industry, from production to transportation to refnement. Within two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the P.A.W. issued a directive for “the production of 100 octane aviation gasoline [to] be greatly increased.” 7 Fed. Reg. 41 (1942). The message was clear: “ `[F]orget economic considerations—forget everything except getting out more and more 100-octane [avgas] as quickly as you can.' ” P. A. W. History 199. With the P. A. W.'s assistance, the Federal Government, through the Defense Supplies Corporation, contracted with dozens of avgas refneries to secure avgas for the military.

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