Rep. Waxman’s opening statement indicates that the committee on the Democratic side will focus on: 1) What BP’s internal documents warned about the Deepwater Horizons well 2) What was missing from these documents in terms…
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LiveBlog: Big Oil Hearing
LiveBlogging the Energy & Commerce Hearing with Oil Executives This morning executives from five of the largest oil companies in the U.S. – ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP America, and Shell – are testifying before the…
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Drilling Dereg: Darth Did It
6-2-10 by dugan It was Dick Cheney’s secretive, dour demeanor that earned him the nickname "Darth Vader" when he was vice president. But he also had Darth’s slash-and-burn tendencies. Cheney, we now learn, stacked…
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BP: Big Bucks for Kings Tix
06-01-10 by dugan Many of us recall stories early in BP’s Gulf spill about how catastrophe would probably have been prevented if PB had shelled out $500,000 for an acoustic cutoff switch that would…
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Silence of Big Oil in Gulf
5-25-10 by dugan Here’s the "bingo" quote from a Tuesday Washington Post story by Karen Tumulty, explaining why the rest of the Big Oil companies are pretty much hiding in a hole as BP…
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Oil Prices Tipping the Economy. Again.
04-5-2010 by dugan Flash back to two years ago. Oil prices were nearing $120 a barrel and jamming up the price of food, gasoline, travel, almost everything we buy. In April 2008, energy analysts…
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‘Drill, Baby’ Doesn’t Cut Oil Price
3-31-10 by dugan After President Obama announced Wendnesday that he’s opening large swath of U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling, and the government announced that domestic oil supplies had risen, the price of…
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Run From Guys With Clipboards
3-5-10 by dugan I guess its’s fitting that it took a New York newspaper to inform Californians that a couple of giant Texas oil refining companies are bankrolling a ballot initiative to kill the…
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Sympathetic Hired Guns
3-2-10 by dugan While the end game on health care legislation sucks up the available news space, proposals to curb greenhouse gas emissions are being picked to shreds by power companies, coal companies, oil…
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Hot Fuel Fix in Deep Freeze
When a private club that is too cozy with corporations make the rules on consumer protection, guess what happens? The National Conference on Weights and Measures met last week and did exactly what the…
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$3.00 a Gallon Now, $4.00 When?
01-11-10 by dugan Why be obsessed with the price of gasoline? Easy. High energy prices, including prices at the pump, will slow and even reverse economic recovery. Every 10-cent a gallon increase in the…
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Oil vs. Water: You Choose
If you had to choose between oil and water, one or the other, which would you choose? Living without oil or natural gas wouldn’t be fun, but you wouldn’t live at all without drinkable water….
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Hapless state gets it on climate
11-24-09 by dugan California doesn’t have many bright spots lately, what with a new $21 billion hole in its budget, more than 12% unemployment and a hapless state Legislature. But its prospects looked up…