NEWS RELEASE: Congress Plans Action on Oil Market Speculation As Consumers Send Their Gas Bills to Legislators, White House New Legislation Aims at Taming Energy Markets; Consumer Watchdog Decries Likely Lack of Senate, White House…
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Archive | Misdeeds
RSS feed for this sectionDocumenting industry actions that demonstrate immorality, greed, or disregard for others.
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Send Your Gas Bill To Congress!
NEWS RELEASE: ‘Send Your Gasoline Bill to Congress’ Campaign Launched by Consumer Watchdog Group Offers Drivers Opportunity to Send ‘Dose of Reality’ to Lawmakers and White House and Demand Action Now, Not Next Year CONTACT:…
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Bush wants west’s water
06-18-08 What I heard today in President Bush’s push to extract Western shale oil was this: Let’s subsidize Big Oil to turn Southern California into a desert and huge swaths of the West into polluted,…
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Regulate Oil Prices? How Quaint
6-14-08 by dugan This business short in Saturday papers caught my eye. Not because a federal court turned down Chevron’s demand for a $101-million tax refund, but because it referred to a time when…
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Greed for pennies
Just when you think big oil companies like ExxonMobil might be content with tens of billions of yearly profits, they surprise you by grasping for pennies. This time it’s not just the driver at the…
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Get it done, already!
6-9-08 by dugan With gasoline at $4.04 nationally, and nearly $4.50 in California and a few other states, Washington is sleepwalking. President Bush today still had no better idea than drilling for oil in the…
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$4 Gas Is Breaking Point
NEWS RELEASE: Gasoline Brushing $4.00 Is Breaking Point for Consumers Hit by Flat Wages, Job Losses Government Must Speed Market Regulation, Says Consumer Watchdog; Group Calls for Stiffer Oil Trading Rules and Oversight of Refineries…
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Oil Futures Inquiry Welcomed
NEWS RELEASE: Consumer Watchdog Welcomes Investigation of Oil Price Manipulation, Cautions That CFTC May Be Ill-Equipped Group Calls for FBI, Justice Department Participation, Public Support by Bush CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 x305, cell 213-280-0175; or…
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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,…
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Exxon’s Not-Such-a-Victory
5-28-08 by dugan Today’s large-shareholder revolt against Exxon’s management got just under 40% of shareholder votes today about what it got at last year’s annual meeting. Exxon viewed it as a victory, but…
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Oil Prices Sag, Pump Prices Rise
NEWS RELEASE 33-Cent Monthly Rise in Gasoline Keeps Oil’s Foot on Drivers’ Necks Oil Prices Sag Yet Pump Keeps Zooming; Lack of Oversight Means ‘Double Whammy for Consumers’ and Economy This Summer, Says…
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“Hot Fuel” Fix Urgent
NEWS RELEASE Zooming Oil Price Makes "Hot Fuel" Fix More Urgent as Memorial Day Approaches Consumer Groups Criticize Oil Industry Resistance to Fixing Hidden Charge at Pump That Costs U.S. Drivers Close to $3 Billion…
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Blame Exxon for Housing Crisis, Too
5-22-08 by dugan The link between skyrocketing oil prices and food prices, for instance, or airline bankruptcies, is obvious and immediate. But the housing crisis? A new study makes the case: a direct correlation between…