06-20-08 by dugan I’ve gotten some e-mails telling OilWatchdog that it’s off course in asking drivers to send their gas bills to Congress and demand some action to get prices down. One group says we…
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Greed for pennies
Just when you think big oil companies like ExxonMobil might be content with tens of billions of yearly profits, they surprise you by grasping for pennies. This time it’s not just the driver at the…
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Regulation Hinted, Oil Price Drops
5-29-08 by dugan It’ll take a few days to see what’s really going on in oil markets, but still… a $4-a-barrel price drop in crude oil markets today followed news that federal regulators…
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Don’t Blame the Gas Station
5-26-08 by dugan I’ve heard from people who represent gas station owners that oil companies allow only a few cents of profit on gasoline sales, in order to maximize corporate profits. I never…
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Oil Prices Sag, Pump Prices Rise
NEWS RELEASE 33-Cent Monthly Rise in Gasoline Keeps Oil’s Foot on Drivers’ Necks Oil Prices Sag Yet Pump Keeps Zooming; Lack of Oversight Means ‘Double Whammy for Consumers’ and Economy This Summer, Says…
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Blame Exxon for Housing Crisis, Too
5-22-08 by dugan The link between skyrocketing oil prices and food prices, for instance, or airline bankruptcies, is obvious and immediate. But the housing crisis? A new study makes the case: a direct correlation between…
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Brits’ Cold Shoulder to Exxon
8-19-08 by dugan The shareholder revolt against Exxon is going global. Four big institutional investors in Britain have joined a shareholder resolution demanding that Exxon have an independent chairman of the board, and the new…
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Climate Heat on Exxon
5-13-08 by dugan Oh, man, I wish I had a share of Exxon. The shareholder meeting May 30 is going to be a show. A group of big institutional investors, mostly public pension funds, has…
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Tell a Lie Often Enough…
5-12-08 by dugan It’s a flat-out lie when oil companies say they’re only making an "average" percentage of profit compared to other companies. Furthermore, journalists shouldn’t be taking the oil industry’s figures at face value….
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Exxon Is Holdout on MTBE
5-8-08 by dugan A national lawsuit over water pollution from a gasoline additive was more than half-settled yesterday when four of the five major oil comanies agreed to pay $423 million in cleanup and other…
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Chevron’s Record 1st Qtr Profit
NEWS RELEASE: Chevron Rides Soaring Crude Oil Prices To Record Profit As Consumers Feel Squeeze At Pump CONTACT: John Simpson, 310-392-0522 x317, cell 310-292-1902; or Jamie Court x327 May 02, 2008 Santa Monica, CA —…
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Exxon Posts More Record Profits
NEWS RELEASE May 01, 2008 ExxonMobil Profits Soar to Record On Speculative Oil Prices While Consumers and Economy Suffer Bush, Congress Avoid Real Solutions; Stance Is Inexcusable as Pump Price Soars, Says Consumer Group CONTACT:…
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Rockefellers: Change Exxon
04-30-08 by simpson What’s known as America’s First Family of Oil, the Rockefellers, wants Exxon Mobil, the oil giant descended from John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, to change it is ways. They’re worried the company…