By Simpson4-11-2007 ConocoPhillips finally took the plunge and became the first major oil company to call for regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. Other dirty Oil Giants have so far merely dabbled their toes in the…
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Conoco Pumps Cash to Big Oil U
By Simpson4-10-2007 ConocoPhillips is pushing to become a full-fledged sponsor of Big Oil U with a grant of $22.5 million to Iowa State University to develop technologies to produce biorenewable fuels. “We believe the key…
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Congress Wakes Up
Rep. Dennis Kucinich is way ahead of other elected officials on gasoline prices, even if he’s not leading the presidential-primary pack. Kucinich, as head of the House Domestic Policy Subcommittee, sent a letter today to…
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Congress: CA Gas Supply Plan?
NEWS RELEASE: April 10, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, cell: 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989 Congress Presses Refiners on California’s Gasoline Price Spike, Supply Restrictions; Rep. Kucinich Requests Oil Companies’…
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Top Analyst: West Coast Is Toast
NEWS RELEASE: April 9, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, cell: 213 280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989 Low Supply Makes the West a "Compromised Market for the Rest of This Decade,"…
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Who’s To Blame For Gas Prices?
04-09-07 by Court The media debate about who is to blame for rising gasoline prices is on. Last week perennial pundit George Will took the oil industry’s line in his syndicated column that gasoline prices…
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Exxon Tactic Shocking … in Canada
A Vancouver , B.C. tabloid reporter, Sean Holman, nails ExxonMobil today, describing its offer to an energy official of a public P.R. campaign to change public opinion on drilling in coastal waters. The public in…
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‘Hot Fuel’ Action Gets Hotter
An Oregon fiscal analyst has filed a class action lawsuit against the major oil companies alleging that the sale of motor fuel above a certain temperature cheats motorists. The suit by Shonna Butler, reported by…
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Alt-Fuels Restricted Everywhere
Check out this detailed Wall Street Journal follow-up to OilWatchdog’s investigation of Chevron’s resistance to renewable fuels at their gas stations. It also tells how companies other than Chevron effectively bar the sale of high-ethanol…
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Shame Totem For Exxon
Alaska carver Mike Webber has created a totem to memorialize how ExxonMobil has yet to pay its debt to Alaskans on the 18th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill. Webber’s shame totem pole, carved from…
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Retailers Resist ‘Adjusted’ Price
The petroleum marketers, a.k.a wholesalers and chain operators of truck stops and convenience stores, are organizing a new coalition, P.U.M.P. (the Partnership for Uniform Marketing Practices), to stop the rising momentum to mandate automatic temperature…
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Valdez’s Sister Still Afloat
Exxon still has not paid the $2.5 billion in punitive damages it owes 30,000 Alaskans from the Valdez spill. Exxpose Exxon has now uncovered that the world’s richest corporation is hardly showing remorse in its…
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Stanford Claims Independence In ExxonMobil Deal, But Pact Details Show Otherwise;
NEWS RELEASE: March 26, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522, ext. 317, or 310-292-1902 (cell) Key part of research agreement remains secret Santa Monica, CA — Stanford University President John Hennessy was asked today by…