BP is playing hardball with legislation in Alaska that seeks to take back the company’s tax deduction for repairing improperly maintained facilities, like the Prudhoe Bay plant. The Anchorage Daily News reports that a BP…
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California Screaming, BP Dreamin’
West Coast motorists are paying 46 cents per gallon more for their gasoline for no apparent reason. Crude prices are less than same time last year. A Texas refinery is down, but California doesn’t its…
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Beyond Petroleum or Buying PR?
BP is supposed to represent the greening of the oil industry. The company’s recent investment in an alternative energy research center at Berkeley is supposed to be yet another demonstration of its commitment to moving…
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What is Alternative Fuel Anyway?
Chevron CEO David O’Reilly has been traveling America to convince the American people his company is committed to alternative fuel development. To show its commitment, Chevron claims it will be investing a couple of billion…
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Burying The Evidence
Britain’s respected newspaper The Guardian reports that scientists have been offered $10,000 by an Exxon-backed think tank to trash today’s landmark UN study finding global warming is on a collision course with life on earth…
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Shell Game
Shell, the world’s second largest oil company, set a company record profit of $25.4 billion in 2006. The oversized payday comes even with a 23% decline in refining margins during the fourth quarter a.k.a the…
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Oil Companies’ July 4 Celebration: $140 million in excess profit;
NEWS RELEASE: July 3, 2006 CONTACT: Jamie Court, 310 392-0522 ext. 327 Group Calculates Consumers Pay 50 cents a Gallon More than Last Year Santa Monica, CA — Motorists nationwide are sending $140 million in…
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Chevron Warned Not To Use Windfall Profits For Ballot Measure Eliminating Its Liability For Punitive Damages In MTBE Cases
NEWS RELEASE: March 2, 2006 CONTACT: Jamie Court (310) 392-0522 ext 327 Chevron Warned Not To Use Windfall Profits For Ballot Measure Eliminating Its Liability For Punitive Damages In MTBE Cases Santa Monica, CA —…
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FTCR Expert Testifies Before U.S. Senate That Standard Oil Trust Has Been Resurrected, New Anti-Trust Laws Needed
NEWS RELEASE: February 1, 2006 CONTACT: Tim Hamilton (360) 495-4941 or Jamie Court (310) 392-0522 ext. 327 Washington, D.C. — Petroleum consultant Tim Hamilton, an expert for FTCR, testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee…
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Exxon Mobil World Record Profits Based on Supply Manipulation & Katrina Profiteering, Prove Need For Supply-Side Regulation
NEWS RELEASE: January 30, 2006 CONTACT: Jamie Court (310) 392-0522 ext 327 Santa Monica, CA — ExxonMobil’s announcement today of the largest quarterly profits in any corporation’s history proves that the company made a killing…
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Internal Memos Show Intentional Supply Reduction
Three internal memos from Mobil, Chevron, and Texaco show different ways the oil giants closed down refining capacity and drove independent refiners out of business since the mid 1990s. The confidential memos, made public by…