West Coast motorists are paying 46 cents per gallon more for their gasoline for no apparent reason. Crude prices are less than same time last year. A Texas refinery is down, but California doesn’t its…
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Beyond Petroleum or Buying PR?
BP is supposed to represent the greening of the oil industry. The company’s recent investment in an alternative energy research center at Berkeley is supposed to be yet another demonstration of its commitment to moving…
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When Hired Dogs Turn On You
Big Oil, still trying to cast doubt on global warming, turned to the oil-friendly and Exxon-funded American Enterprise Institute in January to buy a "report" disputing the UN’s decisive global warming study. Big oil should…
Report
How BP Killed 15
A critical report on BP safety lapses (pdf, 774pp.) by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III. The analysis of BP’s disastrous 2005 Texas refinery explosion that killed 15 people shows the contradiction between…
Press Release
Record Profits from Well and Refinery Slam Motorists Twice, Group Says
NEWS RELEASE: July 25, 2006 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392-0522 ext. 305, cell: 213 280-0175, or Doug Heller, ext. 309 BP Kicks Off Week of Profit Reports With $7.3 Billion Announcement Santa Monica, CA —…
Smoking Gun
MTBE Was Big Oil’s Idea
Arco Exec, deposed in 2002 lawsuit by South Lake Tahoe, admits that using MTBE (manufactured by Arco) as gasoline additive was Big Oil’s idea, not a government mandate.