A remembrance of Oscar Wyatt past ...

Valero Refining was born in 1980 out of a mess created by Oscar Wyatt, who's now incarcerated in a federal prison for his misdealings with the late Saddam Hussein, but Oscar's bastard child oil company remains true to its patriarch's shady, swashbucklin' image by winning this week's Polluter o' the Week award for its unauthorized emissions in Texas City, for which it was fined $196,300.

SA-LUTE!