4-11-08 by dugan Maybe you can only afford to fill your gas tank halfway these days, but I’m sure Big Oil is thanking you. A Bloomberg survey of the profit landscape looks like…
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EPA’s Top Secret
4-09-08 by dugan So, did the White House "influence" the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision last December to kill states’ plans to regulate greenhouse emissions from tailpipes? Some of us don’t doubt it for…
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White House Oil Hoarding
4-09-08 by dugan Government boosts price of oil and gasoline! The actual big headline today is dual records for the price of oil (over $112 a barrel) and gasoline ($3.43 a gallon, up 22…
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Where’s Congress, White House on Gas Prices?
NEWS RELEASE: April 07, 2008 Gallon of Regular Gasoline Spikes Nearly a Nickel in a Week, 17 Cents Since March 3 Refineries’ Profit Surge Comes On Top of Record Profits Reaped From High Oil Prices;…
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Inexorable
4-06-08 by dugan It’s hard to be shocked these days about prices at the pump, easier to be shocked that Congress can’t do more than talk about it. Today’s $3.324 a gallon for regular,…
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Grease Rustlers Unite!
This wacky tale of grease rustling at a Northern California Burger King spins off a lot of threads. The police report said the wild-haired suspect was siphoning his 300-gallon haul of used fryer grease into…
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Solutions, Years Late
4-3-08 by dugan It’s like spring and apple blossoms: Record fuel prices make Congress bloom with hearings. The difference is that the apple trees always bear fruit. Today’s Washington event, a Senate hearing…
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Losing Round for Chevron
4-3-08 by dugan Great big lawsuits move at a snail’s pace, and it could be years before the accusations that Chevron/Texaco grossly polluted the Ecuadoran Amazon are decided. Still, an Ecuadoran court expert’s study calling…
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Green Half-Truths
4-02-08 by dugan I didn’t get time yesterday to post on a House select committee’s grilling of executives from the major oil companies, but as the chairman, Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, pointedly…
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Yep, We have Hot Fuel
4-01-08 (4/02 correction: Average California gasoline temperature based on raw data of study is 71.1 degrees, not 76.4, based on raw data from state study). A year-long study of gasoline temperatures in the state…
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Gas Prices Hit Records Across U.S.
NEWS RELEASE: March 31, 2008 Contact: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, or cell: 213-280-0175 Gasoline Prices Hit Records in U.S., 17 States; Congress Prepares to Question Oil Execs Group Calls for Passage of Stalled Renewable…
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That’ll Be $4.35 a Gallon, Thanks
3-26-08 by dugan Hey, California, how about $4.35 a gallon for regular? A study released today (Here’s the press release. Here’s the study) by the Consumer Federation predicts pump prices could rise another 75…
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Chevron in Iraq: Who’ll Pay?
3-25-08 by dugan If the major oil companies start making deals to pump Iraqi oil, who will protect their investments? If these investments become "a fact on the ground" while the U.S. still occupies…