4-25-08 by dugan Today’s $3.00 per barrel spike in crude oil was a perfect example of market traders capitalizing on hasty news. Initial reports, from military sources, said a U.S. military "contract’ ship fired on…
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Conoco’s Profit = Higher Gas $
NEWS RELEASE: Consumer Group Sees Warning in Oil Profit Report that Refining Profits Set to Rise, Spiking Gasoline Prices Further Analyst Predicts Over $4 a Gallon Nationally, Up To $5 in California CONTACT:…
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Milk Is Sold Fairly; Not Gas
4-23-08 by dugan Edited 4/23, 5:00 p.m. to use exact temperature benchmarks, as provided by K. Floren. Around a meeting table at the California Energy Commission today, some of us were stifling yawns. Then,…
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Who’ll Set Bush Straight?
4-22-08 by dugan The headlne today seemed promising: "Bush Voices Concern About Record Oil Price." It’d be a step forward from a president who recently said he’d never heard a thing about…
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Oil’s ‘Alternative Energy’ Scam
4-22-08 by dugan When I look at oil company profit reports–which will soon reveal truly rabid profit increases in the 1st quarter of 2008–I just ignore the line on "alternative energy" spending. That’s because it…
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Not the Gas Station’s Fault
4-21-08 by dugan I imagine a fair number of drivers think the guy at the corner gas station is raking it in, with the price at the pump getting near–or beyond–$4.00 a gallon. But…
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Demand for White House Action
April 21, 2008 News Release Contact: Judy Dugan, 310 392-0522, ext. 305 White House Silence, Inaction on Pump Price Spike is Opposite of Bush 2006 Response, Says Group Consumers, Economy Are Buckling…
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The ‘Killer Biofuels’ Claque
4-18-08 by dugan Global warming denial is a nearly lost cause, so its proponents have a new issue: killer biofuels. Their simple, effective message is that biofuels–all of them–are the cause of rising food costs. Thus…
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Why You Can’t Afford Gasoline
4-17-08 by dugan The government will never willingly change the duplicitous way it calculates inflation, which is why it doesn’t get written about much. So it’s worth pointing out a good column by…
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How to Have It Both Ways
4-17-08 by dugan Yep, the price of oil keeps rising. But the price of gasoline is now rising even faster, up nearly two cents a gallon in one day to $3.418 nationally. Here’s how it’s…
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Bush Blames $115 Oil on OPEC
NEWS RELEASE: CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305; or cell, 213-280-0175 April 16, 2008 New Oil Price Spike to $115 a Barrel Shows a "Two-Faced" White House That Takes Oil Off U.S. Markets While Blaming…
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Green Prize Wilts Chevron
4-15-08 by dugan Chevron’s world headquarters in San Ramon, Calif., is less than 40 miles from San Francisco’s stately opera house. So if bad thoughts could kill, last night’s audience for the prestigious…
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Upside, Downside on Gas Tax Relief
4-15-08 by dugan The big upside of Sen. John McCain’s proposal today to suspend the 18.4-cent federal gasoline tax through this summer is that it’s simple and popular: Get rid of a tax…