Don’t Get Used To Cheap Oil, Analysts Say By John Porretto, ASSOCIATED PRESS January 12, 2009 HOUSTON, TX — All that money you’re saving these days at the gas pump? You might want to put…
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Deja Vu for Shell Refinery
Deja Vu for a Troubled Refinery By John Cox, BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN January 10, 2009 Somehow the trouble brewing at Big West refinery seems very familiar. Let’s see: Shell Oil Co. faces mounting criticism from consumer…
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Gas Prices Heading Back Up
Gas Prices Heading Back Up By David R. Baker, SAN FRANCISO CHRONICLE January 10, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO, CA — If the past 10 days are any indication, America could be in for another dizzying year…
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Shell Trying to Shut Refinery?
NEWS RELEASE: Memo at Bakersfield Refinery: Shell Oil Is "Trying to Shut Down Our Plant" Consumer Group Calls on Sen. Boxer, California Officials To Investigate at Facility Shell Previously Tried to Shut Down; Warns…
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Gas Price In AR Leaps In Week
Gasoline Price In State Leaps 20¢ In Week Mideast Conflict, Natural Gas Dispute Raise Cost Of Oil, But It’s Retreating Again By Laura Stevens, ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE January 9, 2009 Global conflict and rising crude oil…
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Shell Idling Refinery
Controversy Boils at Idled Refinery Some say Shell Oil is trying to use its leverage to put the plant it sold to Big West in 2005 out of business. By Marla Dickerson, LOS ANGELES TIMES…
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Pump price up, a penny a day
1-05-09 by dugan Israel doesn’t produce a drop of oil, but that hasn’t stopped the price of crude oil and gasoline from rising sharply in the last week. (As far as speculative markets are…
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Mini-Me speculative frenzy
1-2-09 by dugan Remember those crazy gyrations of crude oil prices last spring and summer? Price gyrations of more than 10% in a day for no economically rational reason, as crude oil marched to $145 a…
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Oil platforms are forever
12-29-08 by dugan With a new administration a few weeks from office, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in opposition, the likelihood of new offshore oil rigs popping up along the California coast may seem slim. But…
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Gas Prices Fall in US, Rise in CA
Retail Gasoline Prices Fall In U.S., Edge Up In California By Ronald D. White, LOS ANGELES TIMES December 29, 2008 The U.S. average retail gasoline price fell for the 25th straight week to a…
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Chevron’s Perfect Match
12-23-08 by dugan It’s great to see a story that puts together the scathing investigative criticism of the Defense Department’s torture-enabling former chief counsel, William Haynes, and Haynes’ new job as chief counsel for…
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Oil Down, Pump Price Up
Gasoline Prices in California Headed Up as Oil Prices Keep Dropping; Poll Shows Support for Refiner Oversight Refiners in State Producing 14.8% Less Gasoline Than Year Ago as Producers Push to Raise Pump Price …
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Fusion Soon, Chevy Volt When?
12-19-08 by dugan Dan Neil in the LA Times reports today that he got 52 mpg city/highway in a test drive of the production model of the Ford Fusion hybrid, in comfort. Too…