2-18-08 by dugan Where’s Congress? When it comes to oil and gasolne prices, our elected officials are has hard to find as Waldo. Speculators today shoved oil prices are back up to $96…
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BP’s Profits Exception
NEWS RELEASE February 5, 2008 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, cell: 213-280-0175; Jamie Court, 310-392-0522, ext. 327 or cell : 310-874-9989; or Tim Hamilton, 360-495-4941 BP, ‘Bumbling Petroleum,’ Is Exception to Profit Boom; Group Warns Against Cutting…
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Chevron & Exxon’s Record Profits
NEWS RELEASE February 1, 2008 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392-0522, ext. 305, cell: 213 280-0175; or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310 874-9989; or Tim Hamilton, (360) 495-4941 Chevron, Exxon Record Profits Reaped At Cost…
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Big Oil’s Big Bribes?
01-31-08 by dugan I absolutely can’t vouch for the truth of this story, but it’s no wonder that people would believe it. A Bahraini publication claims that oil companies are offering Iraqi legislators $5…
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Shell Posts Record Annual Profit
NEWS RELEASE January 31, 2008 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, cell: 213-280-0175; or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310 874-9989 Shell’s Record Profit Is a Thumb In the Eye of Recession-Wracked Nation, Says Group;…
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Wacky Weights ‘n Measures
1-28-08 by dugan A t-shirt widely sold in Albuquerque, N.M., where the National Conference on Weights and Measures is meeting, says: "Keep the Quirky in ‘Querque." Today was "Quirky" and far, far more at…
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Congress Must Act On Energy Prices
NEWS RELEASE January 7, 2008 CONTACT: Judy Dugan (310) 392-0522 ext. 305, or Jamie Court, ext. 327 Congress Must Act to Question, Curb Energy Prices as Gasoline Rises Again, Says Group; Pump Price up a…
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Take Us To Your Leader
1-1-08 by dugan Starting the year on the lighter side, an angry Alaskan sees oil companies as reptilian aliens who’ve just dropped their human masks and declared their true foul intentions for Earth. Anchorage Daily…
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Exxon’s Terrorism Card
12-30-07 by dugan The story sounds familiar: Rural villagers in an unsettled part of the world accuse a big U.S. oil company of supporting and abetting the atrocities of government soldiers. It could be…
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EPA “Disappears” the Evidence?
12-21-07 by dugan Today’s award for worst job in the world goes to EPA spokeswoman Jennifer Wood. She’s saying that an EPA staff Powerpoint presentation defending California’s right to regulate auto emissions can’t be…
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Sue their Brains Out!
12-19-07 by dugan The ink wasn’t dry on President Bush’s energy bill signature today when the White House denied California’s waiver request to enforce its greenhouse emissions law. Obviously this was a signed-and-sealed plan….
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Energy Bill: Crumbs or Loaves?
12-19-07 by dugan Looking at the energy bill, I’d say Congress is settling for crumbs and trying to count them as loaves–at least until 2009 and TEOB, "The End of Bush." That leaves a…
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Calling Big Oil’s Tax Bluff
12-14-07 by dugan If legislation were poker, this column in the Washington Post would have Big Oil and its corporate allies chucking their hands. It’s too bad that Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein…