10-14-08 by dugan How far on the hook will the American military be for the the protection of U.S. oil companies and shipping lanes? That’s a live question again, as companies including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell…
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Archive | Tag: cash register politics
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Oil profiteering, both ways
10-9-08 by dugan It’s almost time for oil companies to tell us how astounding their "earnings" were in the last three months–how, as the economy tumbled deep into recession and Americans lost their jobs and…
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Bailout’s bucks for polluters
10-3-08 by dugan "Left undisciplined, unregulated and unsupervised, they created chaos." That was Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s acid, and correct, judgment of the nation’s financial behemoths after Congress forked over $700 billion taxpayer dollars to bail…
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Silence of the Greens
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…
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Petunia in the Mojave
10-1-06 by dugan Back from the dead. No, not just the bailout bill, but tax credits for wind and solar energy projects, which for months have been a pawn in the battles of dysfunctional…
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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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Renewable energy update
9-26-08 by dugan Friday update: The House passed its version of the renewable energy tax credit, but it’s still a long shot that the Senate will accept all the changes: three bills instead of one,…
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Renewable energy credit fading
9-25-08 by dugan The House was supposed to take up a Senate tax bill today that would, among other things, extend a crucial renewable energy tax credit that will otherwise expire at the end of…
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Free gas cards for all of us!
9-25-08 by dugan If Californians wonder why there’s been no discussion of their pain at the gas pump in the state Legislature, it’s probably because legislators get free gas cards–and free cars. The AP story…
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Who does Paulson represent?
9-25-08 by dugan Henry Paulson seems to have persuaded Congress that his Wall Street bailout is purely in service of the nation, but a land-conservation deal made by Paulson in 2004, when he was both…
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OWD and “Black Gold” on CNBC
9-24-08 by dugan Yes, it’s hard to give up an episode of CSI, but take a look tonight at a CNBC investigative documentary, "Black Gold," airing at 9:30 Eastern (or whenever President Bush’s speech on…
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Drillers win a talking point
9-23-08 by dugan I get why Congress gave up today on renewing a federal ban on coastal drilling: It was that, or be accused of shutting down government for lack of a stopgap spending bill….
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Itty bitty energy bill
9-23-08 by dugan Hopes for a comprehensive energy policy or energy policy this year are long over, but the Senate today limped to approval of the barest minimum–an extension of wind and solar power tax…