8-26-08 by dugan ExxonMobil is spending plenty to get its message heard during the Democratic Convention, but not by spending on the convention itself. Exxon is buying a heap of time on CNN and CBS…
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Archive | Tag: cash register politics
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Everybody agrees….
8-19-08 by dugan Las Vegas, NV — There was plenty of room for disagreement at the National Clean Energy Summit. Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin made a pitch for the "clean coal" fantasy (possibly because…
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Arnold’s big idea: Use less gas
8-19-08 by M.Reback Arnold’s big idea: Use less gas It seems the extent of Governor Schwarzenegger’s solution for Californians to help combat sky-high gas prices is… promoting more efficient use of gasoline. Gee thanks for…
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Gold medal in greenwash
8-17-08 by dugan Watching ExxonMobil’s ad blitz on NBC during the Olympics, you’d think it was a company dedicated to teaching science, mentoring young engineers and eradicating malaria in the Third World. At an estimated…
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Guru of “drill here, drill now”
8-13-08 by dugan How did the "drill now, drill everywhere" gang persuade Americans that giving U.S. coastline and wilderness to oil companies is an energy policy? Credit goes to a brilliant deceiver who most people…
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Corn, memory, energy policy
8-8-08 by dugan So what’s the price of corn these days? A little above $5.00 a bushel. It’s down about 28%, even more than the 21% drop in the price of crude oil (from over…
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Drill or not? Here’s the answer
8-7-08 by dugan Sometimes comedy is just the right cure. Here’s the last word, from Jon Stewart, on why no one should trust the folks saying we need to "drill now, drill everywhere" in the…
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Fever breaking?
8-6-08 by dugan The drop in the price of oil, now at under $119, feels like a fever breaking. Iran’s saber-rattling, Nigerian gangs, Chinese demand, the weak dollar — all still exist, but as the…
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Corn price drop matches oil’s
8-5-08 by dugan Remember all the assertions earlier this year that demand for ethanol was skyrocketing the price of corn and other farm commodities? Oh, and possibly starving the world. OilWatchdog kept arguing that energy…
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Chevron: Drill Less, Profit More
NEWS RELEASE: Chevron Profits: Drill Less, Profit More Chevron Data Shows Industry Lag in Producing New Oil from U.S. Source — Lower Production Shows Failure of Investment, Not Lack of Oil, Says Watchdog Santa…
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Exxon: ‘Pumping Cash, Not Oil’
NEWS RELEASE: Exxon: ‘Pumping Cash, Not Oil’ Exxon’s ‘Biggest Profit in the World’ Is Actually Bigger; $8 Billion in Unproductive Share Buybacks Should be Counted, Says Group Shell, No. 2 Oil Co., Also Hits New…
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Oil money’s new hero
7-31-08 by dugan If anyone wonders who’d really benefit from opening up U.S. coastline and wilderness to oil drilling, follow the money. Sen. John McCain proposed just such open-ended drilling on public land June 15….
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Murder in the U.S. Senate
7-30-08 by dugan The noise, hearings and promises in Congress about oil prices and energy relief are adding up to precisely zero result. Even the most modest, targeted bills are falling off the…