04-7-10 by dugan It’s not just mountaintops blown to smithereens and drinking water polluted. Cheap coal’s price is also the the 25 miners known dead, plus four more feared dead, in Monday’s West Virginia…
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The Price of Cheap Coal
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Oil Prices Tipping the Economy. Again.
04-5-2010 by dugan Flash back to two years ago. Oil prices were nearing $120 a barrel and jamming up the price of food, gasoline, travel, almost everything we buy. In April 2008, energy analysts…
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‘Drill, Baby’ Doesn’t Cut Oil Price
3-31-10 by dugan After President Obama announced Wendnesday that he’s opening large swath of U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling, and the government announced that domestic oil supplies had risen, the price of…
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‘Clean’ Coal PR, Dirty Reality
3-29-10 by dugan Just as the oxymoronic American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity launched a new campaign telling us that coal is sooo much cheaper than natural gas (coal’s chief, and cleaner, competitor), the admirable…
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Blaming Big Oil
Blaming Big Oil Critics see price-gouging as refinery capacity is cut; the industry says it’s just business. By Editorial, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES March 15, 2010 A few years ago, when SUVs still ruled American…
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Oil Co’s Look At Refinery Cuts
Oil Companies Look At Permanent Refinery Cutbacks The response to slumping gasoline use would likely mean higher prices for drivers. Consumer advocates want regulators to examine the firms’ plans. By Ronald D. White, THE LOS…
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Run From Guys With Clipboards
3-5-10 by dugan I guess its’s fitting that it took a New York newspaper to inform Californians that a couple of giant Texas oil refining companies are bankrolling a ballot initiative to kill the…
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Sympathetic Hired Guns
3-2-10 by dugan While the end game on health care legislation sucks up the available news space, proposals to curb greenhouse gas emissions are being picked to shreds by power companies, coal companies, oil…
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Hot Fuel Fix in Deep Freeze
When a private club that is too cozy with corporations make the rules on consumer protection, guess what happens? The National Conference on Weights and Measures met last week and did exactly what the…
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Who’s Cooking Oil Prices?
02-01-10 by dugan The major oil companies all made less profit in 2009, but mostly because they could barely make a billion on refining and selling gasoline and diesel fuel, with demand running…
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$3.00 a Gallon Now, $4.00 When?
01-11-10 by dugan Why be obsessed with the price of gasoline? Easy. High energy prices, including prices at the pump, will slow and even reverse economic recovery. Every 10-cent a gallon increase in the…
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Oil’s at $82; Where’s the Sheriff?
1-05-10 by dugan Supplies of oil and fuel in the U.S. are up, and so is the price of oil–it has surged to $82 dollar a barrel, pushing gasoline over $3.00 a gallon in…
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Oil vs. Water: You Choose
If you had to choose between oil and water, one or the other, which would you choose? Living without oil or natural gas wouldn’t be fun, but you wouldn’t live at all without drinkable water….