7-9-08 by dugan I woke up this morning and found out that oilman T. Boone Pickens may save the Earth–at least according to much of the MSM. Here’s USA Today on energy billionaire Pickens’…
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Not a “whew” moment on oil
7-8-08 by dugan Having trashed the world’s major stock markets with $145-a-barrel crude oil, the oil market now is getting dinged because oil is too expensive for the world’s weakening economies to stomach. Here’s the…
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Big Oil Increases Lobbying
Lobbying Increases with Oil Prices Industry spent nearly 62 percent more between 2004 and 2007 By Bennett Roth, HOUSTON CHRONICLE July 04, 2008 THE OIL LOBBY Expenditures for federal lobbying by the oil and gas…
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Congress takes a holiday
06-27-08 by dugan It looks like Congress needs to rest up before doing anything about oil and gasoline prices. Our government is heading off for its long July 4 holiday after accomplishing nothing useful to…
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Government’s cracked crystal ball
06-26-08 by dugan It’s hard to do more than sputter over oil hitting $140 a barrel today, so let’s go for laughs. For instance, the federal Energy Information Administration’s 2008 predictions about oil. The EIA…
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New Bills to Curb Oil Speculation
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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Why cheaper gas is right
06-20-08 by dugan I’ve gotten some e-mails telling OilWatchdog that it’s off course in asking drivers to send their gas bills to Congress and demand some action to get prices down. One group says we…
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Enron loophole fix is law
06-20-08 Finally. After a clerical bungle that sent the farm bill through two Congressional votes, two presidential vetoes and two Congressional override votes, it and the "Close the Enron Loophole" amendment are law. It’s a…
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The lie of coastal oil drilling
06-19-08 by dugan It’s easy to understand why President Bush and Sen. John McCain are getting media and public traction from their demand that California, Florida and other coastal states open up their shorelines to…
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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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McCain and Market Regulation
06-17-08 by dugan Sen. John McCain’s call today to lift a federal ban on drilling off the nation’s coastline won’t win him friends in California, and probably Florida, but the part of his…
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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…