11-28-07 by dugan Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez’s campaign to win Latin American hearts and minds has developed a new twist that should set hearts aflutter (not in a good way) at Chevron’s investor…
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Exxon’s Redemptive Moment
11-28-07 by dugan Exxon just announced its development of a Holy Grail for electric cars, a technology to make lithium ion batteries bigger and more powerful without overheating, even bursting into flames. Here’s…
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$100 Oil in the Gambling Hall
11-25-07 by dugan Way back in autumn of 2004, Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. crude oil prices briefly topped $50 a barrel as offshore drilling platforms were rattled. Even then,…
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He’s Way More Than “All Hat”
11`-20-07 by dugan With crude oil closing today at $98 a barrel and the dollar hitting another record low, a solidly new book on cutting U.S. oil dependence suddenly looks compelling. Energy veteran S. David…
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Good-bye To a Quixote
11-19-07 by dugan Monterey, Calif., gas station owner Mehdi Shahbazi died last week at 65 after a 90-day hunger strike against Shell Oil. He’d been fighting the company for years over the company’s actions…
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Exxon’s Alabama Cesspool
11-19-07 by dugan When a big story happens away from the eye of Big Media, the bare bones that get told often omit the really interesting political realities and motivations. Earlier this month, a…
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No Room for Denial
11-17-07 by dugan Some disasters seem just too enormous to grasp. Every version of the U.N. climate change report is more dire and more certain about the effects of climate change. The final…
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The ‘Dictator Penalty’
11-16-07 by dugan Bought any of that Chevron gasoline currently averaging more than $3.40 a gallon in California? A few pennies of that will now go to pay Chevron’s $30 million settlement of a…
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What! Are They Thinking?
11-15-07 by dugan There wasn’t much media notice last week for what seems to me a head-swiveling announcement: Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said that the government will keep buying crude oil to expand the…
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L.A.’s First Drop of E85
11-15-07 by dugan Listen up, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, Conoco and BP. A little family-owned gasoline station in West L.A. (location below) called Conservfuel will soon be the first in Los Angeles and second in…
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From Your Pocket to Putin’s
11-10-07 by dugan Here’s a striking tale from the Washington Post on the global power shift of $100 oil, mainly to the benefit of dictators and corrupt proto-despots. Japan is suffering because it…
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Guns and Oil
11-09-07 by dugan Here’s an interesting cross-fertilization in the news. The Wall Street Journal posts a business item on how rising oil prices mean that Nigeria will keep more of the oil pumped by Exxon,…
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Gas Price Spike = Gift for Big Oil
NEWS RELEASE November 5, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, or cell: 213-280-0175 Gasoline Price Spike Heralds Economy-Busting Christmas ‘Present’ For Oil Companies Price for Regular Up 14 Cents Nationally, to $3.01, In One…