NEWS RELEASE October 23, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, or cell, 213-280-0175, or Tim Hamilton, 360-495-4941 BP Profit Drop Just a Pause in Windfall Profits, Says Consumer Group; Company Warned Not to Skimp…
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BP Says ‘Breathe This’
10-22-07 by dugan Either no one at BP’s big Carson, CA refinery has seen a TV for two days or its management just doesn’t give a damn about what the neighbors breathe. With Southern…
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Big Oil Gives $500K+ to Giuliani
NEWS RELEASE October 19, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 x305 Giuliani Leaps Past $500,000 Mark in Big Oil Contributions; All Presidential Candidates Should Return Oil Industry’s "Dirty Money," Says Watchdog Group Santa Monica, CA —…
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Spike In Crude Oil But Not Gas Prices
Spike in Crude Oil Price to $88/Barrel Without New Run-Up in Pump Price Exposes Oil Industry Deception, Profiteering; Oil Companies’ Claim That Crude Oil Costs Drive Gasoline Price Makes No Sense With Today’s Barrel Prices…
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Chevron’s Titan-ic Bungle
10-15-07 by dugan "It’s not what you say but what you do that matters." Oops, Chevron must not have heard its mother say that. Check out this savage AdWeek column by Joan Voight on…
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Refiners ‘Recovery’ Has a Price
10-10-07 by dugan Chevron, BP and Valero Energy have warned that their third-quarter profits will be under those of the last quarter because their refining profits have deflated from stupendously piggish highs. Unfortunately, they…
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“I Got Mine” Attitude on Hot Fuel
10-08-07 by dugan I’ve heard lots of arguments by gasoline distributors and retail chains about why they "can’t" adjust retail fuel sales for temperature expansion: "We’ve always done it this way, no one would benefit,…
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‘Hot Profits, Global Warming’
1-05-07 by dugan Tyson Slocum, who runs the energy program at Public Citizen with Joan Claybrook, is an oil industry analyst who writes with great clarity. This report, "Hot Profits, Global Warming," was written…
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Students Fight to Thwart UC-BP
10-04-07 by simpson I supplied the T-shirts and The Student Campaign to Stop BP at Berkeley offered up a demonstration to drive home the potential damage of Big Oil U on one of the…
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Students Warn About “UC-BP”
Rally, T-shirts Warn Cal Could Become “UC-BP”; $500 Million BP Deal Near Completion As Big Oil Pumps Money Into Colleges Berkeley, CA — Oil giant BP must not be allowed to use a $500 million…
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Ethanol Glut’s Other Villains
10-4-07 by dugan Chevron, BP, Exxon and friends talk a big game on renewable fuels, but it’s like Silicon Valley vaporware: all buzz, nothing in production. That’s the other half of the story on…
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“Boston Legal” Pillories Big Oil U
NEWS RELEASE September 26, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317, or (310) 292-1902, cell Big Oil U Pilloried On "Boston Legal" Season Premiere; $500 Million BP Deal at Berkeley Near Completion; Oil…
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“Boston Legal” Focuses on Big Oil U
9-26-04 by simpson ABC’s Boston Legal likes to base its plots on real life and the plot of last night’s season premier was drawn from Big Oil U campuses at Stanford University and UC…