2-19-08 by dugan If I told you that Venezuela’s crackpot leader Hugo Chavez is responsible for crude oil hitting $100 a barrel in futures trading today, would you believe me? I hope not. But…
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Congress Yawns At $3 gasoline
2-18-08 by dugan Where’s Congress? When it comes to oil and gasolne prices, our elected officials are has hard to find as Waldo. Speculators today shoved oil prices are back up to $96…
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All Hail Exxon
2-14-08 by dugan (and thanks to Mark Reback for the tip) I can’t believe Investors Business Daily would do so little checking of an editorial on Tuesday slamming the critics of ExxonMobil, from…
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Chevron’s Greenwash-and-Run
2-11-08 by dugan Chevron’s PR whizzes pulled out the stops in 2006 and early 2007 to promote the oil company’s investment in a Texas biodiesel producer. Chevron made sure that every energy reporter…
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Exxon, the Worldwide Scrooge
2-07-08 by dugan You’d think that a company making nearly $41 billion in yearly profit in 2007 would be profligate in its charitable giving. We don’t know yet what Exxon Mobil’s 2007 total was,…
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Big Oil’s Big Bribes?
01-31-08 by dugan I absolutely can’t vouch for the truth of this story, but it’s no wonder that people would believe it. A Bahraini publication claims that oil companies are offering Iraqi legislators $5…
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Hot Fuel Fix Gets Pole-Axed
1-29-08 by dugan (Albuquerque, NM)–I thought I was in the chambers of a Chicago alderman watching a deal go down, not in a sober meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures. A key…
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Wacky Weights ‘n Measures
1-28-08 by dugan A t-shirt widely sold in Albuquerque, N.M., where the National Conference on Weights and Measures is meeting, says: "Keep the Quirky in ‘Querque." Today was "Quirky" and far, far more at…
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Hot Fuel Showdown
1-26-07 by dugan I’m heading this weekend to a meeting in Albuquerque of the national weights and measures organization. The buzz issue is whether to fix the hot fuel ripoff with temperature-compensating retail…
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Cold Days for Hot Fuel Ripoff
1-26-08 by dugan Thursday in the California capitol was cold, windy and spitting rain. But the topic in a government meeting room was hot fuel, a national issue that will shoplift money from our…
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Distract ‘Em From the Chevy Volt
1-18-07 by dugan My greenwash antenna is waving madly. GM chief exec Rick Wagoner made a splash at the Detroit auto show earlier this week, announcing an investment in cellulosic ethanol. He offered no…
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Clean-Air Hand-Clap for Safeway
12-18-08 by dugan We ought to be past the time when fueling a truck fleet on a biodiesel blend that’s good for any diesel engine merits a back-slapping news conference. But it’s still worth…
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Mr. Oil’s Different World
1-17-08 by dugan As most of us don’t remember offhand, the price of crude oil a year ago was $52 a barrel. I looked it up after reading a speech that Red Cavaney, longtime head…