8-19-08 by dugan Las Vegas, NV — It’s no surprise that T. Boone Pickens gives essentially the same stump speech at every stop to pitch his "Pickens Plan", which is really a political effort. Pickens…
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Las Vegas, clean-style
8-19-08 by dugan Here in Vegas, the temperature outside is low 100s, but I can crank the hotel room down to 60 degrees–true energy-sucking extravagance. But the cabbies and doormen, when I ask how to…
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Variety thumbs up to GasHole film
If you want to know the true story about why gasoline prices are $4.25 per gallon, check out the gripping new documentary GasHole when it comes to your movie theatre, hopefully this Fall. Two creative…
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Costco caves on ‘hot fuel’
8-11-08 by dugan For a while, it looked like the discount chain Costco might be the pioneer in offering drivers a truly fair deal on gasoline by doing…
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Corn, memory, energy policy
8-8-08 by dugan So what’s the price of corn these days? A little above $5.00 a bushel. It’s down about 28%, even more than the 21% drop in the price of crude oil (from over…
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Fever breaking?
8-6-08 by dugan The drop in the price of oil, now at under $119, feels like a fever breaking. Iran’s saber-rattling, Nigerian gangs, Chinese demand, the weak dollar — all still exist, but as the…
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Corn price drop matches oil’s
8-5-08 by dugan Remember all the assertions earlier this year that demand for ethanol was skyrocketing the price of corn and other farm commodities? Oh, and possibly starving the world. OilWatchdog kept arguing that energy…
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BP Posts Record 2nd Qtr Profits
NEWS RELEASE: BP Profits: ‘Congratulations Are Not In Order,’ Says Consumer Watchdog New Quarterly Records Show Oil Companies ‘Spiting the Future For the Sake of Cash in Hand’ CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, or…
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Sandbox-style energy standoff
7-28-08 by dugan At first, the fight in the Senate over whether renewable energy tax credits should be extended for a few more years seemed like political Kabuki theater: Republican opponents in the Senate would…
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Conoco Kicks Off Oil ‘Profit Orgy’
NEWS RELEASE: ConocoPhillips Kicks Off a ‘Profit Orgy’ By Major Oil Companies 2nd Quarter Report Shows Industry Still Buying Its Own Stock, Not Investing Record Profits in New Oil or Renewables, Says Consumer Watchdog; Congress…
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‘Hotrod’ defends ethanol’s MPG
7-15-08 by dugan I’ve long heard that a car with the engine correctly adjusted for ethanol can run as economically as a car running on gasoline. Yet AAA, which publishes daily gasoline and diesel prices…
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No new refineries? Here’s why
7-11-08 by dugan I’ve heard many an oil executive say their company would be glad to build new refineries, but the government/the environmentalists won’t let it happen. President Bush has called for dumping environmental regulation…
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Airlines get it on speculation
7-10-08 by dugan The major airlines, which are teetering on the financial edge because of oil and fuel prices, are a little late to the party on the effects of unregulated oil markets. But…