10-20-08 by dugan The nasty state of the economy means that a lot of planned government programs may hit the chopping block. Environmentalists fear that green initiatives, including renewable power, will stall. But…
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Panic in the oil business
10-16-08 by dugan As the price of oil dropped today to less than $70 a barrel (that would be $1.67 a barrel), the industry was in a panic. OPEC, the Prmarily Middle Eastern oil…
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Who’ll protect Iraqi oil?
10-14-08 by dugan How far on the hook will the American military be for the the protection of U.S. oil companies and shipping lanes? That’s a live question again, as companies including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell…
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Pump prices oughta be lower
10-9-08 by dugan When oil prices dropped to under $78 a barrel today, I asked our friend Insider to take a look at why gasoline prices are going down so much more slowly than the…
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Oil profiteering, both ways
10-9-08 by dugan It’s almost time for oil companies to tell us how astounding their "earnings" were in the last three months–how, as the economy tumbled deep into recession and Americans lost their jobs and…
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Bailout’s bucks for polluters
10-3-08 by dugan "Left undisciplined, unregulated and unsupervised, they created chaos." That was Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s acid, and correct, judgment of the nation’s financial behemoths after Congress forked over $700 billion taxpayer dollars to bail…
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Silence of the Greens
10-2-08 by dugan OilWatchdog loathes greenwash P.R. by oil companies pretending to be good green citizens. But a revelatory new book points to major environmental groups as enablers of this corporate greenwash. Christine…
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Petunia in the Mojave
10-1-06 by dugan Back from the dead. No, not just the bailout bill, but tax credits for wind and solar energy projects, which for months have been a pawn in the battles of dysfunctional…
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Exxon’s new “Pal-in” high places
9-30-08 by dugan Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has opposed any federal declaration that polar bears are endangered, saying she checked the research and it backs up her denials of human-caused global warmin. But her "research"…
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Sliver of silver lining
9-29-08 by dugan The price of oil fell today by a slightly higher percentage than the Dow’s 7%, dropping $10 a barrel to $96. Of course, there’s another way to look at it–if that pattern…
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Diesel use drops like rock
9-26-08 by dugan Here’s an alarming statistic that won’t show up in government economic reports for a few months: Diesel purchases at truck stops in August were down 7.8% from a year ago. Most of…
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Renewable energy update
9-26-08 by dugan Friday update: The House passed its version of the renewable energy tax credit, but it’s still a long shot that the Senate will accept all the changes: three bills instead of one,…
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Renewable energy credit fading
9-25-08 by dugan The House was supposed to take up a Senate tax bill today that would, among other things, extend a crucial renewable energy tax credit that will otherwise expire at the end of…