3-5-10 by dugan I guess its’s fitting that it took a New York newspaper to inform Californians that a couple of giant Texas oil refining companies are bankrolling a ballot initiative to kill the…
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Sympathetic Hired Guns
3-2-10 by dugan While the end game on health care legislation sucks up the available news space, proposals to curb greenhouse gas emissions are being picked to shreds by power companies, coal companies, oil…
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Hot Fuel Fix in Deep Freeze
When a private club that is too cozy with corporations make the rules on consumer protection, guess what happens? The National Conference on Weights and Measures met last week and did exactly what the…
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Who’s Cooking Oil Prices?
02-01-10 by dugan The major oil companies all made less profit in 2009, but mostly because they could barely make a billion on refining and selling gasoline and diesel fuel, with demand running…
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$3.00 a Gallon Now, $4.00 When?
01-11-10 by dugan Why be obsessed with the price of gasoline? Easy. High energy prices, including prices at the pump, will slow and even reverse economic recovery. Every 10-cent a gallon increase in the…
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Oil’s at $82; Where’s the Sheriff?
1-05-10 by dugan Supplies of oil and fuel in the U.S. are up, and so is the price of oil–it has surged to $82 dollar a barrel, pushing gasoline over $3.00 a gallon in…
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Oil vs. Water: You Choose
If you had to choose between oil and water, one or the other, which would you choose? Living without oil or natural gas wouldn’t be fun, but you wouldn’t live at all without drinkable water….
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Oil Lobby Loves Photoshop
It’s a cheap shot, but I’m never above making the oil lobby look phony and stupid. Thanks to TPM for posting a photo from an American Petroleum Institute pamphlet that appears to show a (slightly)…
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Sen. Byrd whacks Big Coal
12-8-09 by dugan On the other fossil fuel front, Sen. Robert Byrd, the coal industry’s best ally in Washington for decades, is standing up against its current scare campaign in West Virginia, and its demand…
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Hapless state gets it on climate
11-24-09 by dugan California doesn’t have many bright spots lately, what with a new $21 billion hole in its budget, more than 12% unemployment and a hapless state Legislature. But its prospects looked up…
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This ‘carbon trading’ thingie
11-04-09 by dugan Carbon trading. Oh, yawn. Too weird and complicated. MEGO. Leave me alone. But wait a minute: A new website, Carbon Watch, could change your mind about keeping up with cap and…
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Oil profits shouldn’t ‘recover’
10-30-09 by dugan Why is it that media reports on oil company profits only compare them to the previous quarter and the previous year? This week’s third-quarter profit reports for Exxon, Shell, Chevron and…
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Good-news rumor on CA refinery
10-21-08 by dugan With oil prices going through the roof again (near $82 a barrel today), the economy is deeply at risk. But oil refineries are looking like better investments, because gasoline prices will…