01-16-07 by dugan Here’s the picture: President Gerald Ford, addressing the nation wearing a "Whip Inflation Now" button pinned to his sweater (in my memory, a yellow sweater) That was the last time…
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Congress Must Act On Energy Prices
NEWS RELEASE January 7, 2008 CONTACT: Judy Dugan (310) 392-0522 ext. 305, or Jamie Court, ext. 327 Congress Must Act to Question, Curb Energy Prices as Gasoline Rises Again, Says Group; Pump Price up a…
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No Big Oil in “Blood”
01-07-08 by dugan After seeing "There Will Be Blood" this weekend, I left wondering why it put oil wildcatter Daniel Plainview’s explosive personal tale in such narrow focus. In the real world, early in…
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Energy Traders Get Their Manufactured $100-Oil Dream, Consumers Brace for $4.00 Gasoline
Group Calls on Congress to Curb Wild Speculation in Energy Markets Speculators ginned up alarm over Nigerian gang violence, Pakistani unrest and shaky predictions on future OPEC capacity to drive crude oil prices to…
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Take Us To Your Leader
1-1-08 by dugan Starting the year on the lighter side, an angry Alaskan sees oil companies as reptilian aliens who’ve just dropped their human masks and declared their true foul intentions for Earth. Anchorage Daily…
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Exxon’s Terrorism Card
12-30-07 by dugan The story sounds familiar: Rural villagers in an unsettled part of the world accuse a big U.S. oil company of supporting and abetting the atrocities of government soldiers. It could be…
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$97 Crude Oil… or Not
12-29-07 by dugan You never know what you’ll find out when the family gets together over wine and good cheer. Oil companies and even independent analysts link gasoline prices to the record price of crude…
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A Wallet-Cleaning New Year
12-29-07 by dugan I see the stars aligning, not for a lucky New Year but for $4.00 gasoline prices this spring. In fact, it’s already started. Regular is back over over $3 a gallon nationally, 69 cents a gallon…
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Traders Have Hopes, Too
12-21-07 by dugan It was just a news-blurb on the NPR broadcast this morning, but why would a reporter say that crude oil prices above $93 a barrel "Raised hopes among traders that…
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Grab the Greenwash, Then Run
12-21-07 by dugan My earlier doubts about Chevron’s ballyhooed investment in a Galveston biodiesel plant were too mild. After garnering a bunch of admiring news stories, including in the New York Times, Chevron is…
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EPA “Disappears” the Evidence?
12-21-07 by dugan Today’s award for worst job in the world goes to EPA spokeswoman Jennifer Wood. She’s saying that an EPA staff Powerpoint presentation defending California’s right to regulate auto emissions can’t be…
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Sue their Brains Out!
12-19-07 by dugan The ink wasn’t dry on President Bush’s energy bill signature today when the White House denied California’s waiver request to enforce its greenhouse emissions law. Obviously this was a signed-and-sealed plan….
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Energy Bill: Crumbs or Loaves?
12-19-07 by dugan Looking at the energy bill, I’d say Congress is settling for crumbs and trying to count them as loaves–at least until 2009 and TEOB, "The End of Bush." That leaves a…