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Oil Price Spike, As Exxon And Others’ Profit Skids, Shows Potential For New Economy-Killing Energy Roller Coaster, Says Consumer Watchdog Profit Reports Offer More Proof That Oil Prices Are Disconnected From Actual Petroleum CONTACT: Judy…
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05-26-09 by dugan 05-27 update: The NRDC has agreed to remove itself from the "advisory committee" for the pro-oil sands study described below and and denounce or at least dispute the study’s findings. An e-mail…
Smoking Gun
05-01-09 by dugan Last week I figured the vehement reaction of the fuel industry, as Costco agreed to sell gasoline adjusted for temperature, was because Costco was the first crack in the industry’s united front….
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04-29-09 by dugan The poor little oil companies are reporting profits that are way down, though only in comparison to the last three record-busting years of picking consumers clean at the pump. But they’re making…
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04-20-09 by dugan The biofuel industry was robbed by the California Air Resources Board, says a letter today from scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories. The biofuels industry has been crying foul since the California…
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04-07-09 by dugan What OilWatchdog usually worries about is what refiners do to keep fuel prices higher than they should be, and lately I’ve been studying the paucity of real-time operational information that is available…
Press Release
Shell Oil: Is It Profit or Loss? Paper Losses Blur Hard-Cash Record Profits in Industry Oil Production and Gasoline Refining Cuts Increase Odds of Future Price Spikes, Says Watchdog Santa Monica, CA — Shell’s 4th…
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Exxon, Shell Profit Records Cap an Orgy That Weakened U.S., World Economies, Says Group ‘Consumers Now Know Where Their Money Went’; Congress, White House Must Prevent a Repeat of Costly Energy Bubble CONTACT: Judy Dugan,…
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10-26-08 by dugan If the oil business were competitive, somebody might feel sorry for BP. The British-based oil giant dropped today to No. 4 among the Big 5 companies, dipping below Chevron in total worth….
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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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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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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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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…
