12-11-08 by dugan Two or three of us at Consumer Watchdog, OilWatchdog’s parent group, have gotten calls today asking our endorsement for the city of Los Angeles’ "Green Energy/Good Jobs Act" on the city’s March…
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How to kill green energy
Archive | Misdeeds
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About those oil markets
12-4-08 by dugan The price of crude oil is only slightly above $40 a barrel today, about $1.00 a gallon. That’s barely more than one-fourth of the price six months ago. What the slide proves…
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CEC Deep Freeze On Hot Fuel
California Energy Board Seeks To Put Remedy for ‘Hot Fuel’ Ripoff in Deep Freeze — Group Calls for Immediate Fix Draft Report Accepts Industry Call for Ban on Temperature-Compensating Device, Denies Consumers Would Benefit From…
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Chevron slides, for now
12-2-08 by dugan It’s no surprise that a federal jury in San Francisco acquitted Chevron in the shooting of Nigerian protestors aboard a Chevron rig a decade ago. As I noted earlier, conditions 10 years…
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Chevron’s moral liabilities
11-26-08 by dugan A jury in San Francisco is deliberating whether Chevron is liable for a shooting spree by Chevron-paid Nigerian troops against protesters aboard an oil platform a decade ago. No matter what the…
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Why’s gas so cheap? Or is it?
11-20-08 by dugan I’ve been asked a lot lately about why "gasoline is so cheap." Yet the question itself is a result of short memories. Gasoline is certainly a ton cheaper than in July,…
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Chevron Doubles Profit
Chevron’s Doubled Profit Caps Oil Industry’s ‘Vampire Attack on Economy’ Current Oil Price Breather Is Right Time for Action to Prevent Next Speculative Bubble, Says Group October 31, 2008 Santa Monica, CA — The…
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Exxon, Shell Post Record Profits
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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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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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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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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Exxon’s new “Pal-in” high places
9-30-08 by dugan Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has opposed any federal declaration that polar bears are endangered, saying she checked the research and it backs up her denials of human-caused global warmin. But her "research"…
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Unhinged oil prices
9-22-08 by dugan Oil prices shot up by an all-time record $25 a barrel in one day because, um, because… uh, well, for no good reason. It’s all paper trading and has nothing to do…