Costco To Install Hot Fuel Sensors By 7 On Your Side, KGO-TV ABC-7 (SF, CA) April 21, 2009 Big warehouse discounter Costco has reportedly agreed to put in the equipment needed to ensure you get…
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Biofuels’ bad rap needs do-over
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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Costco ‘Hot Fuel’ fix, almost
4-20-09 by dugan Great news–the legal paper Daily Journal (subscription barrier) said Friday that the Costco chain, already know for consumer-friendliness, agreed to eliminate the "hot fuel" ripoff at its gasoline stations. Unlike every other…
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Cap and trade. Eek!
The Environmental Protection Agency declaration Friday that greenhouse gases and global warming are a threat requiring action is the enviro equivalent of the teacher announcing a pop quiz on quadratic equations. All of us who…
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Oil fills a different pocket
04-15-09 by duga Oil prices are still moping around the $50 a barrel level worldwide, but that doesn’t mean major oil companies just sit around and weep. They’re making bigger profits than last year on…
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Conflict At CARB Hearings
Pacific Ethanol slams conventional wisdom in indirect land-use change at California Low Carbon hearings By Jim Lane, BIOFUELS DIGEST April 14, 2009 Tom Koelher’s excellent presentation at the CARB hearings is downloadable from biofuelsdigest.com In…
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Price-fixing tales
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…
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Suit Over Gas Pricing Revived
Lawsuit Over Gas Pricing Revived An appeals court rules that a class-action case alleging a conspiracy by oil refiners in the 1990s should proceed. By Ronald D. White, LOS ANGELES TIMES April 4, 2009 The…
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Oil bounces with market
04-02-09 by dugan Oil, being a commodity that people buy and consume, ought to be priced according to supply and demand. Of course, we know that’s not true. But it’s still a little surprising to…
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Chevron’s torture(d) lawyer
03-31-09 by dugan Corporate arrogance leads to corporate blindness: AIG execs who packaged impossible risk into AAA securities, bankers who lent trillions on a bet that the real estate bubble would never pop. In Chevron’s…
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Conoco’s chicken-fat fade-out
When a major oil company announces a green fuels project, the trumpet is loud. Press releases, media blitz, public officials on site. The death of the project is a slink-away-at-midnight affair. So it is with…
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Look who’s talking
03-25-09 by dugan There’s no doubt that the ethanol industry is in trouble. Credit crunch, ugly recession, and roller-coaster energy prices that spook investors. The Des Moines Register has a good rundown today on cellulosic…
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Exxon anniversary surprise
04-24-09 by dugan Here’s the best proof I’ve seen that every last thing Exxon does is about the bottom line. On the 20th anniversary of the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill, Exxon is still running…