Marathon Oil Co. v. Federal Energy Administration

CHRISTENSEN, Judge.

This case presents the question of whether, absent express authority in the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act for the regulation of credit terms as such, the Federal Energy Office, now the Federal Energy *1141Administration (FEA),1 was precluded from requiring a continuation of normal credit practices by suppliers of petroleum products as a part of its “maintenance of normal business practices rule.”

In the light of Shell Oil Co. v. FEA, 527 F.2d 1243 (Em.App.1975), and Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Zarb, 532 F.2d 1363 (Em. App.1976), which the court below interpreted as requiring…