5-25-07 by Court The Oil Price Information Service (OPIS), a pricey oil industry insider news wire, is reporting that gasoline prices on the "spot market" are falling like a rock. The change isn’t as dramatic…
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The Crude Gap
One consequence of record gasoline prices is that the oil industry is no longer able to claim with a straight face that crude oil prices are responsible for inflation at the pump. In today’s Contra…
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Defining Gouging
5-24-07 by Court TV is buzzing about the House of Representatives passage of new legislation to restrict gasoline price gouging. The laudable goal is to restrict unconscionable prices, and it is laudable that the debate…
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Reform’s In the Mail
5-15-07 by Court After our oped in yesterday’s LA Times condemning the political silence in Sacramento, we got an angry call saying there was some reform for high gasoline prices in the works. Interestingly, the…
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Doing Right In Nigeria & The World
5-15-07 by Court Chevron reports that a group of young protesters briefly occupied its office in the Nigerian Delta city of Warri asking for jobs and better social conditions. The oil rich region is home…
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Hot Fuel Breaks Cold Silence?
5-9-07 by Court Will today’s front page Los Angeles Times story, "You may not be getting all you pay for at the pump" help stop at least one gasoline scam? The article recounts how the…
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Who’s Bad for Business?
4-5-07 by Court In response to our recent report about California gouging, oil industry flack Tupper Hull served up his usual excuses, but added this one to the list: our consumer group has "a…
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Attack Of The Chevron Attorneys
5-2-07 by Court Chevron’s attorneys are at it again, this time breathing down the necks of editors at the San Francisco Chronicle over my oped last week, "Is Chevron Going Green?" I got the call…
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How green is Chevron?
The San Francisco Chronicle April 25, 2007 by Jamie Court – Op-Ed Commentary The following commentary by Jamie Court, president of the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and a founder of www.oilwatchdog.org…
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Chevron v. Amazon & Environment
4-25-07 by Court Chevron shareholders meeting today in San Ramon will hear from Amazon villagers about the company’s failure to settle up for the worst oil related disaster in the world. Subsidiary Texaco dumped…
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Shell-raiser Gets Goldman Prize
4-24-07 by Court Irish farmer William Corduff is in California to claim his Goldman prize. Corduff stopped Shell Oil from building a high pressure pipeline to connect proposed off-shore gas production with a refinery six…
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Will Arnold Take On Chevron?
4-18-07 by Court The lawyer from Ecuador who is prosecuting Chevron for its crimes against the Amazon has written Arnold Schwarzenegger, asking the Gov to get tough with Chevron, which has kicked in more than…
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CA Pipeline Break Next Excuse?
04-18-07 by Court As gas prices hit new records in the Bay Area, the rupturing of a pipeline that moves oil between Bakersfield and Shell’s Martinez refinery backed up traffic along I-580 for miles near…