8-19-08 by dugan Las Vegas, NV — It’s no surprise that T. Boone Pickens gives essentially the same stump speech at every stop to pitch his "Pickens Plan", which is really a political effort. Pickens…
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Las Vegas, clean-style
8-19-08 by dugan Here in Vegas, the temperature outside is low 100s, but I can crank the hotel room down to 60 degrees–true energy-sucking extravagance. But the cabbies and doormen, when I ask how to…
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Exxon’s New Record Profit
Exxon’s Second-Quarter Profit Breaks Its Own Record The oil giant brings in $11.68 billion, the largest profit for a U.S. company, and still fails to meet analysts’ expectations. Critics say Exxon and others aren’t doing…
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Exxon: ‘Pumping Cash, Not Oil’
NEWS RELEASE: Exxon: ‘Pumping Cash, Not Oil’ Exxon’s ‘Biggest Profit in the World’ Is Actually Bigger; $8 Billion in Unproductive Share Buybacks Should be Counted, Says Group Shell, No. 2 Oil Co., Also Hits New…
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Sandbox-style energy standoff
7-28-08 by dugan At first, the fight in the Senate over whether renewable energy tax credits should be extended for a few more years seemed like political Kabuki theater: Republican opponents in the Senate would…
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Pickens Plans Shift Away from Oil
Pickens Pitches Plans to Shift U.S. Away from Oil Wind and Natural Gas Are Priorities on List By Dean Calbreath, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE July 25, 2008 Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens became one of the…
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What comes after newspapers?
7-22-08 by dugan The cratering of the L.A. Times and the rest of Tribune Co. has me worrying, again, about who will hold the powerful, the corrupt and the incompetent to account when all the…
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“Pickens Plan” already profitable
7-22-08 by dugan I’ve been suspicious of oilman T. Boone Pickens’ new campaign for wind power and natural gas vehicles, partly because it looked like he’d be profiting on the backs of California taxpayers by…
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Beware T. Boone Pickens
7-9-08 by dugan I woke up this morning and found out that oilman T. Boone Pickens may save the Earth–at least according to much of the MSM. Here’s USA Today on energy billionaire Pickens’…
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Big Oil Increases Lobbying
Lobbying Increases with Oil Prices Industry spent nearly 62 percent more between 2004 and 2007 By Bennett Roth, HOUSTON CHRONICLE July 04, 2008 THE OIL LOBBY Expenditures for federal lobbying by the oil and gas…
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Hot summer, hot fuel
6-04-08 by dugan One of the reasons I hear for the continued rise in natural gas prices is that it’s going to be a very hot summer in much of the country. Lots of air…
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Life in the $4 Lane
Life In The $4 Lane Rising fuel costs eat into profits and curb fun, yet boost wealth for some By Staff Writers, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE (MI) June 01, 2008 Like invisible fumes spreading across the ground…
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Chevron CEO Loses It
5-28-08 by dugan Faced with ticked-off shareholders and demonstrators from Ecuador and Nigeria today, Chevron CEO and Chairman David O’Reilly lost his temper at a Nigerian protest leader. The protests over Chevron’s behavior in Ecuador,…