8-17-08 by dugan Watching ExxonMobil’s ad blitz on NBC during the Olympics, you’d think it was a company dedicated to teaching science, mentoring young engineers and eradicating malaria in the Third World. At an estimated…
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Guru of “drill here, drill now”
8-13-08 by dugan How did the "drill now, drill everywhere" gang persuade Americans that giving U.S. coastline and wilderness to oil companies is an energy policy? Credit goes to a brilliant deceiver who most people…
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How gas prices boost oil price
8-13-08 by dugan The price of crude oil went up about $4 a barrel today not for any lack of oil, but because U.S. companies are cutting back on refining gasoline. The cutbacks are business…
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Costco caves on ‘hot fuel’
8-11-08 by dugan For a while, it looked like the discount chain Costco might be the pioneer in offering drivers a truly fair deal on gasoline by doing…
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OMG! Joel Stein is right?
I can’t believe I want to quote semisatirical LA Times columnist Joel Stein–just ask my friends and former colleagues. But his "What’s so Bad About Foreign Oil" column today is about 70% right, Especially these…
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Corn, memory, energy policy
8-8-08 by dugan So what’s the price of corn these days? A little above $5.00 a bushel. It’s down about 28%, even more than the 21% drop in the price of crude oil (from over…
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Drill or not? Here’s the answer
8-7-08 by dugan Sometimes comedy is just the right cure. Here’s the last word, from Jon Stewart, on why no one should trust the folks saying we need to "drill now, drill everywhere" in the…
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Fever breaking?
8-6-08 by dugan The drop in the price of oil, now at under $119, feels like a fever breaking. Iran’s saber-rattling, Nigerian gangs, Chinese demand, the weak dollar — all still exist, but as the…
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Corn price drop matches oil’s
8-5-08 by dugan Remember all the assertions earlier this year that demand for ethanol was skyrocketing the price of corn and other farm commodities? Oh, and possibly starving the world. OilWatchdog kept arguing that energy…
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Exxon: ‘Pumping Cash, Not Oil’
NEWS RELEASE: Exxon: ‘Pumping Cash, Not Oil’ Exxon’s ‘Biggest Profit in the World’ Is Actually Bigger; $8 Billion in Unproductive Share Buybacks Should be Counted, Says Group Shell, No. 2 Oil Co., Also Hits New…
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Oil money’s new hero
7-31-08 by dugan If anyone wonders who’d really benefit from opening up U.S. coastline and wilderness to oil drilling, follow the money. Sen. John McCain proposed just such open-ended drilling on public land June 15….
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Murder in the U.S. Senate
7-30-08 by dugan The noise, hearings and promises in Congress about oil prices and energy relief are adding up to precisely zero result. Even the most modest, targeted bills are falling off the…
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Alaska: Big Oil in charge?
7-29-08 by dugan Here’s another thread in the federal corruption case against Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska. The company tied to Stevens, Alaska oilfield servicer VECO, also did a lot of political dirt in the…