12-11-08 by dugan Two or three of us at Consumer Watchdog, OilWatchdog’s parent group, have gotten calls today asking our endorsement for the city of Los Angeles’ "Green Energy/Good Jobs Act" on the city’s March…
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How to kill green energy
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About those oil markets
12-4-08 by dugan The price of crude oil is only slightly above $40 a barrel today, about $1.00 a gallon. That’s barely more than one-fourth of the price six months ago. What the slide proves…
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CEC Deep Freeze On Hot Fuel
California Energy Board Seeks To Put Remedy for ‘Hot Fuel’ Ripoff in Deep Freeze — Group Calls for Immediate Fix Draft Report Accepts Industry Call for Ban on Temperature-Compensating Device, Denies Consumers Would Benefit From…
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Amtrak model for Big 3?
12-3-08 by dugan Michael Moore’s been wrapped up for the last several years with failing health care, the failed Bush Administration and the war in Iraq. But the author/moviemaker’s enduring fascination is Detroit iron. He…
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Let oil rescue autos
12-2-08 by dugan With U.S. automakers headed to Washington for a do-over of their disastrously inept begging trip, OilWatchdog reader Ray Bock of Arroyo Grande, Calif., offers a suggestion that’s been in the air: Let…
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Chevron’s moral liabilities
11-26-08 by dugan A jury in San Francisco is deliberating whether Chevron is liable for a shooting spree by Chevron-paid Nigerian troops against protesters aboard an oil platform a decade ago. No matter what the…
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Roller-coaster hurts both ways
11-25-08 by dugan There’s no doubt that the crash in oil prices has taken pressure off of consumers and government, even though record-high energy prices did some serious economic damage before the fall. It’s like…
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Shale oil and water wars
11/24/08 by dugan Mark Twain never heard the phrase "shale oil," but he was dead on when he said of the West, "Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting. Whiskey-wise, I’d like a double sinker after…
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Chevron’s relentless greenwash
11-21-08 by dugan We at OilWatchdog have been relentlessly critical of Chevron’s faux-green ad campaigns (here, here, here and here.) I’ve recently heard from reporters who are sniffing around the ubiquitous image ads–the fortune Chevron…
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Waxman win a harbinger?
11-20-08 by dugan Henry Waxman’s close victory today over Rep. John Dingell to chair the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee should mean better days for a U.S. energy policy focused on independence from fossil…
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Why’s gas so cheap? Or is it?
11-20-08 by dugan I’ve been asked a lot lately about why "gasoline is so cheap." Yet the question itself is a result of short memories. Gasoline is certainly a ton cheaper than in July,…
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What Exxon owes us ‘sissies’
11-17-08 by dugan Sitting inside the wreckage of the rest of the U.S. economy, Exxon Corp. beams with fiscal health. It is protected by its insular, petroleum-only culture, as described in a long NY Times…
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CEOs’ sudden love for Dingell
11-11-08 by dugan A big catfight among two top liberals in the House of Representatives? Sheesh, can’t they get along for a few months while the president-elect gets a grip? It’s not like most people…