11-6-08 by dugan I’ve been out of town for several days, and the news today makes me wonder if the governor of California had a near-religious epiphany while I was gone. Arnold Schwarzenegger just embraced…
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Archive | Author: Judy Dugan
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Exxon, Shell Post Record Profits
Exxon, Shell Profit Records Cap an Orgy That Weakened U.S., World Economies, Says Group ‘Consumers Now Know Where Their Money Went’; Congress, White House Must Prevent a Repeat of Costly Energy Bubble CONTACT: Judy Dugan,…
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BP’s 3rd Qtr Profit $10+ Billion
BP’s Outlandish Profits Have Inflicted Serious Damage on Consumers and Whole Economies, Says Watchdog BP Profit, Including Inventory, More Than Doubles from Year Ago to Over $10 Billion on Spiking Oil Prices CONTACT: Judy Dugan,…
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Prop 10’s sugar daddy
10-27-08 by dugan The No On Proposition 10 campaign reports today that oil and gas tycoon T. Boone Pickens has now poured $19 million dollars into his campaign for Proposition 10, the California ballot initiative…
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Stevens, the biggest fish
10-27-08 by dugan Alaska’s big oil producers should be quivering a little after Sen. Ted Stevens’ conviction for lying about big gifts from an oilfield company. Here’s the connection: Bill Allen, the oilfield company executive…
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Greenwash extraordinaire
10-26-08 by dugan Chevron tries harder. Nope, not to cut fuel prices or compete to be first in renewable energy. For Chevron it’s all about hearts and minds, as another full-page color ad in the…
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Musical chairs in big oil
10-26-08 by dugan If the oil business were competitive, somebody might feel sorry for BP. The British-based oil giant dropped today to No. 4 among the Big 5 companies, dipping below Chevron in total worth….
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Chevron’s emit-for-free strategy
10-23-08 by dugan Australia has a lot in common with the United States. It’s a nation of immigrants with a cowboy-style history and a strong love of individual rights. Aussies do put shrimp instead of…
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Fun with Pickens’ pocket-picking
10-23-08 by dugan We Californians have had about all we can take of slogging through a dozen ballot initiatives on the Nov. 4 ballot, most of them from narrow special interests. Those special interests include…
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ConocoPhillips Doubles Profit
ConocoPhillips Doubles Its Profit for 2008 — Harbinger for Bigger Oil Companies $14 billion profit for the first three quarters is more than $7 billion above 2007, money that “went straight onto consumers’ crushing credit…
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Clap to save green energy
8-22-08 by dugan OK, oil is a fraction of the price it was in July, and gasoline is finally below $3.00 a gallon. Natural gas is also about 50% below its top price this summer….
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Pickens’ Fickle Promises
10-20-08 by dugan Here’s something for Californians to consider when judging the promises made by T. Boone Pickens abouit his personal ballot initiative, Proposition 10. The $5 billion bond initiative would take taxpayer…
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Cap and Trade Wars
10-20-08 by dugan Right after I finished the previous post, on hard evidence that green policies are solid job creators, I found the perfect illustration of how industry–especially the oil industry–tries to sabotage…