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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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Nichols Sells Oil, Keeps Chocolate
09-26-07 by dugan When longtime air-quality expert Mary Nichols took the top job on California’s Air Resources Board in July, jaws dropped when she disclosed her family stock holdings: lots of oil, coal…
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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…
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“Hot Fuel” Rips Off DC Drivers
NEWS RELEASE August 30, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305 or cell, 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, cell: 310-874-9989 (ISDN connection available, TV interviews via satellite by appointment through Friday) Labor Day Weekend Gives Oil…
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OWD’s “Hot Fuel Rip-off” Stickers
NEWS RELEASE August 28, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 213 280-0175 (cell) OilWatchdog.Org Demands Consumer Voice in Debate Over Fixing "Hot Fuel" Ripoff of Drivers — New Free Stickers Warn of Hot Fuel Rip-off; Regulatory Group…
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Exxon’s Good Supply of Lawyers
08-23-07 by dugan ExxonMobil is quick to raise gasoline prices whenever "supplies are short." But its ability to go slow is phenomenal when it comes to big lawsuits. Exxon’s army of lawyers has spent more…
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Clueless Mary Nichols
08-20-07 by dugan When Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed former California Air Resources Board director Mary Nichols last month to head the same agency in his administration, reaction in the enviro world was mostly relief, tinged…
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Exxon’s “Hot Fuel” Ripoff Labels
NEWS RELEASE August 9, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392-0522, ext. 305, or cell 213 280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327 ExxonMobil’s Pump Labels Are Clue to "Hot Fuel" Ripoff; New Stickers Are No Substitute…
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Hot Summer, Hot Fuel, Hot Air
08-01-07 by dugan With temperatures across the Southwest routinely over 100 degrees in recent weeks, the summer’s "hot fuel" ripoff is peaking. Against that backdrop, oil executives were hauled before Congress last week and…
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Just Can’t Spend It All
07-31-07 by dugan "With the world thirsty for more oil and cleaner fuels, Exxon Mobil and other oil firms have been spending billions to buy back their shares." A great sentence, but not my…
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It Wasn’t the French
Oil companies’ refining profits come straight out of what we pay at the pump, so guess who paid for the across-the-board record refining profits that the major oil companies finished reporting today, with Chevron’s new…