NEWS RELEASE August 23, 2007 CONTACT: Jamie Court, (310) 392-0522 ext. 327, or Judy Dugan, ext. 305 Assembly Speaker’s Promised Action to Curb Gasoline Price Spikes Fails as Chevron Money Flows, Says Letter; Group Asks…
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Chewed Up and Spit Out
08-22-07 by dugan California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez promised at a Chevron gas station in downtown Los Angeles a few months ago to “curb oil company machinations that drive up gasoline prices.” There’s a…
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Doing The Right Thing
08-21-07 by simpson Remember the all night session when the California Assembly rammed through a budget deal? The accompanying package included SB 98, a tax-break package that would have benefited Chevron. It’s took 52 days…
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Oil Money, Oil Votes
08-21-07 by dugan The datahounds at the Center for American Progress are issuing a good report on the Clean Energy Incentives portion of the big House Energy bill, linking yes and no votes to…
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Clueless Mary Nichols
08-20-07 by dugan When Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed former California Air Resources Board director Mary Nichols last month to head the same agency in his administration, reaction in the enviro world was mostly relief, tinged…
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Rudy Giuliani, $477,208 in Big Oil Money
It seems counterintuitive that a former New York mayor would lead the presidential pack in raising funds from Big Oil. But he has sought out powerful Texas and other oil connections, including a Texan fixer…
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Are Big Oil Bucks Poison?
07-08-07 by dugan While looking at the Opensecrets.org list of the top 20 Congressional recipients of oil industry money in the last election cycle, we found that half of them, mostly incumbents, lost their…
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Now, the Real Energy Bill
08-06-07 by dugan After much public brouhaha, the House and Senate versions of the energy bill are headed to the much more private place where the real bill will be written: a House-Senate conference committee….
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It Wasn’t the French
Oil companies’ refining profits come straight out of what we pay at the pump, so guess who paid for the across-the-board record refining profits that the major oil companies finished reporting today, with Chevron’s new…
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You’re Big Oil’s Piggy Bank
07-26-07 by dugan Once Upon a Time, Big Oil made its big profits on drilling oil. Now the oil guys are pickpocketing motorists directly, racking up ever-larger profits on gasoline and diesel production. Exxon…
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Sleazy Tax Deal Benefits Big Oil
7/24/07 by Simpson Chevron stands to be one of the big beneficiaries of a tax break estimated to cost California more than $850 million in revenue when fully implemented. Speaker Fabian Núñez rammed the bill,…
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Oil Refining: Slow-Motion Enron
07-23-07 by dugan When is the oil industry most like Enron? When it’s draining supplies of gasoline instead of building them, guaranteeing record pump prices that empty your wallet into their profits. That’s…
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Call It “Gigantic Oil”
07-12-07 by dugan Here’s a short-form roundup from priceofoil.org on the latest Fortune 500 list: Ooil companies and their biggest customers, the auto makers, dominate the Top 10. Something not noted: Walmart’s, listed as No….