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12-23-08 by dugan It’s great to see a story that puts together the scathing investigative criticism of the Defense Department’s torture-enabling former chief counsel, William Haynes, and Haynes’ new job as chief counsel for…
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Gasoline Prices in California Headed Up as Oil Prices Keep Dropping; Poll Shows Support for Refiner Oversight Refiners in State Producing 14.8% Less Gasoline Than Year Ago as Producers Push to Raise Pump Price …
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12-19-08 by dugan Dan Neil in the LA Times reports today that he got 52 mpg city/highway in a test drive of the production model of the Ford Fusion hybrid, in comfort. Too…
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12-19-08 by dugan Do I have this right? A giant financial/insurance company, AIG, gets two taxpayer bailouts totaling $150 billion, no strings attached, which does zero to help distressed homeowners or the frozen credit…
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Consumer Watchdog For Immediate Release Poll Finds Strong Support for Regulating Oil Companies to Stop ‘Roller Coaster’ Pricing Consumer Watchdog Urges Obama, Energy Secretary-designate Chu to Respond to Public Anger Over Energy Companies’ Rule of…
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12-17-08 by dugan The New York Times today offered up a tight list of all the wrongs that the new Interior Secretary, Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado, will face the minute he walks into his…
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12-17-08 by dugan I heard recently from a friend in Maine who is freaking out: she’s paying $4.50 a gallon for her home heating oil, even as drivers pay well under $2.00 a gallon for…
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Oil companies said, back when crude oil cost $145 a barrel, that exploration and construction costs were too high for them to invest much in drilling and refining. Exxon, for instance, spurned any project that…
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Sometimes good news mostly illumines the bad news that went before. Take president-elect Obama’s appointment of a four-person "energy and environment" team, including Energy Secretary-designee Steven Chu, Interior Secretary-designee Ken Salazar and a "climate czar,"…
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12-11-08 by dugan Two or three of us at Consumer Watchdog, OilWatchdog’s parent group, have gotten calls today asking our endorsement for the city of Los Angeles’ "Green Energy/Good Jobs Act" on the city’s March…
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12-4-08 by dugan The price of crude oil is only slightly above $40 a barrel today, about $1.00 a gallon. That’s barely more than one-fourth of the price six months ago. What the slide proves…
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California Energy Board Seeks To Put Remedy for ‘Hot Fuel’ Ripoff in Deep Freeze — Group Calls for Immediate Fix Draft Report Accepts Industry Call for Ban on Temperature-Compensating Device, Denies Consumers Would Benefit From…
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12-3-08 by dugan Michael Moore’s been wrapped up for the last several years with failing health care, the failed Bush Administration and the war in Iraq. But the author/moviemaker’s enduring fascination is Detroit iron. He…
