10-27-08 by dugan The No On Proposition 10 campaign reports today that oil and gas tycoon T. Boone Pickens has now poured $19 million dollars into his campaign for Proposition 10, the California ballot initiative…
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Chevron’s emit-for-free strategy
10-23-08 by dugan Australia has a lot in common with the United States. It’s a nation of immigrants with a cowboy-style history and a strong love of individual rights. Aussies do put shrimp instead of…
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Fun with Pickens’ pocket-picking
10-23-08 by dugan We Californians have had about all we can take of slogging through a dozen ballot initiatives on the Nov. 4 ballot, most of them from narrow special interests. Those special interests include…
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Clap to save green energy
8-22-08 by dugan OK, oil is a fraction of the price it was in July, and gasoline is finally below $3.00 a gallon. Natural gas is also about 50% below its top price this summer….
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Pickens’ Fickle Promises
10-20-08 by dugan Here’s something for Californians to consider when judging the promises made by T. Boone Pickens abouit his personal ballot initiative, Proposition 10. The $5 billion bond initiative would take taxpayer…
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Cap and Trade Wars
10-20-08 by dugan Right after I finished the previous post, on hard evidence that green policies are solid job creators, I found the perfect illustration of how industry–especially the oil industry–tries to sabotage…
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Out to Pickens Our Pockets
Out To Pickens Our Pockets Prop. 10 — Lots Wrong With Billionaire’s Energy Measure Editorial, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (CA) October 03, 2008 There’s something for everyone to object to in Proposition 10. Groups as…
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Silence of the Greens
10-2-08 by dugan OilWatchdog loathes greenwash P.R. by oil companies pretending to be good green citizens. But a revelatory new book points to major environmental groups as enablers of this corporate greenwash. Christine…
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Oil Prices Jump From Short Squeeze
Oil Prices Jump, Partly From ‘Short Squeeze’ By David R. Baker, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE September 23, 2008 The price of oil jumped $16.37 to $120.92 per barrel Monday, its biggest single-day gain ever, as investors…
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Self-Serving Prop 10 Should Lose
Self-Serving Prop. 10 Sounds Good, Should Lose By Tom Elias, SANTA MONICA MIRROR September 11, 2008 It’s never hard to find self-serving propositions on the California ballot. But there has never been anything quite like…
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My take on T. Boone’s Prop 10
by dugan 9-10-08 I was asked to share my analysis of T. Boone Pickens’ Prop 10 on the November California ballot with the California Legislature today. The legislature’s own analysis of Prop 10 was skeptical…
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Sex, Drugs & Bush Admin
This just in…The Inspector General at the Department of the Interior found, according to the Associated Press, "Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties partied, had sex with and accepted golf and…
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Where oil and dems mix
8-26-08 by dugan ExxonMobil is spending plenty to get its message heard during the Democratic Convention, but not by spending on the convention itself. Exxon is buying a heap of time on CNN and CBS…