4-15-08 by dugan The big upside of Sen. John McCain’s proposal today to suspend the 18.4-cent federal gasoline tax through this summer is that it’s simple and popular: Get rid of a tax…
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Happy, Happy Days for Oil
4-11-08 by dugan Maybe you can only afford to fill your gas tank halfway these days, but I’m sure Big Oil is thanking you. A Bloomberg survey of the profit landscape looks like…
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Fuel Spike Demands DC Action
NEWS RELEASE: April 11, 2008 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 213-280-0175; or Jamie Court, 310-392-0522, ext. 327 Relentless Fuel Price Spike Demands White House Action, Says Consumer Watchdog Group Asks President to Deflate Oil Markets With Immediate…
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EPA’s Top Secret
4-09-08 by dugan So, did the White House "influence" the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision last December to kill states’ plans to regulate greenhouse emissions from tailpipes? Some of us don’t doubt it for…
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Where’s Congress, White House on Gas Prices?
NEWS RELEASE: April 07, 2008 Gallon of Regular Gasoline Spikes Nearly a Nickel in a Week, 17 Cents Since March 3 Refineries’ Profit Surge Comes On Top of Record Profits Reaped From High Oil Prices;…
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Inexorable
4-06-08 by dugan It’s hard to be shocked these days about prices at the pump, easier to be shocked that Congress can’t do more than talk about it. Today’s $3.324 a gallon for regular,…
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Grease Rustlers Unite!
This wacky tale of grease rustling at a Northern California Burger King spins off a lot of threads. The police report said the wild-haired suspect was siphoning his 300-gallon haul of used fryer grease into…
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Green Half-Truths
4-02-08 by dugan I didn’t get time yesterday to post on a House select committee’s grilling of executives from the major oil companies, but as the chairman, Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, pointedly…
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Gas Prices Hit Records Across U.S.
NEWS RELEASE: March 31, 2008 Contact: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, or cell: 213-280-0175 Gasoline Prices Hit Records in U.S., 17 States; Congress Prepares to Question Oil Execs Group Calls for Passage of Stalled Renewable…
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That’ll Be $4.35 a Gallon, Thanks
3-26-08 by dugan Hey, California, how about $4.35 a gallon for regular? A study released today (Here’s the press release. Here’s the study) by the Consumer Federation predicts pump prices could rise another 75…
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Chevron in Iraq: Who’ll Pay?
3-25-08 by dugan If the major oil companies start making deals to pump Iraqi oil, who will protect their investments? If these investments become "a fact on the ground" while the U.S. still occupies…
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Gas Tax Is State Money Pot
3-26-08 by dugan Most of U.S. price inflation is being driven by oil, and no place is it more evident or harmful than at the pump. Especially in California, where regular is stuck…
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The Great Spring Ripoff
3-23-08 by dugan Yep, oil prices kept dropping over the weekend, down about 9% over the last week. But gasoline prices hit a new record of $3.26 nationally on Sunday. So did diesel, at…