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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Chevron’s emit-for-free strategy
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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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ConocoPhillips Doubles Profit
ConocoPhillips Doubles Its Profit for 2008 — Harbinger for Bigger Oil Companies $14 billion profit for the first three quarters is more than $7 billion above 2007, money that “went straight onto consumers’ crushing credit…
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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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Want Jobs? Go Green
10-20-08 by dugan The nasty state of the economy means that a lot of planned government programs may hit the chopping block. Environmentalists fear that green initiatives, including renewable power, will stall. But…
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Panic in the oil business
10-16-08 by dugan As the price of oil dropped today to less than $70 a barrel (that would be $1.67 a barrel), the industry was in a panic. OPEC, the Prmarily Middle Eastern oil…
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Stations Make More Per Gallon
Gas Stations Make More Pennies on the Gallon By Ryan Randazzo, THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC October 16, 2008 Drivers are welcoming the continued drop in prices of gasoline, but the average cost of a gallon of…
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Who’ll protect Iraqi oil?
10-14-08 by dugan How far on the hook will the American military be for the the protection of U.S. oil companies and shipping lanes? That’s a live question again, as companies including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell…
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Pump prices oughta be lower
10-9-08 by dugan When oil prices dropped to under $78 a barrel today, I asked our friend Insider to take a look at why gasoline prices are going down so much more slowly than the…
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Oil profiteering, both ways
10-9-08 by dugan It’s almost time for oil companies to tell us how astounding their "earnings" were in the last three months–how, as the economy tumbled deep into recession and Americans lost their jobs and…
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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…