8-19-08 by dugan Las Vegas, NV — There was plenty of room for disagreement at the National Clean Energy Summit. Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin made a pitch for the "clean coal" fantasy (possibly because…
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Arnold’s big idea: Use less gas
8-19-08 by M.Reback Arnold’s big idea: Use less gas It seems the extent of Governor Schwarzenegger’s solution for Californians to help combat sky-high gas prices is… promoting more efficient use of gasoline. Gee thanks for…
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Pickens: Charm isn’t enough
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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60 mph? Not gonna happen
7-11-08 by dugan Rep. Jackie Speier of California will get points from greenies, and from me personally, for suggesting a 60 mph speed limit to cut national oil consumption. But for a lot of reasons…
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U.S. loses in “barrel exchange”
07-2-08 by dugan I just ran across this pretty-scary rundown, by a real live options trader, of the effect of oil prices on the U.S. economy. Philip Davis sees oil’s price as unjustifiable, and a…
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Bush wants west’s water
06-18-08 What I heard today in President Bush’s push to extract Western shale oil was this: Let’s subsidize Big Oil to turn Southern California into a desert and huge swaths of the West into polluted,…
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Senate climate debate derailed
6-6-08 Court Shame on the United States Senators who refused to let climate change be debated today. An end-of-the week filibuster has finished Senator Boxer’s bill over how to deal with global warming and climate…
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Exxon’s Not-Such-a-Victory
5-28-08 by dugan Today’s large-shareholder revolt against Exxon’s management got just under 40% of shareholder votes today about what it got at last year’s annual meeting. Exxon viewed it as a victory, but…
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Hybrids Making $ense
5-15-08 by dugan Early adopters of the Prius and other gas-electric hybrids weren’t doing it for the money, since the extra cost would take five or more years to make up with gasoline…
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Climate Heat on Exxon
5-13-08 by dugan Oh, man, I wish I had a share of Exxon. The shareholder meeting May 30 is going to be a show. A group of big institutional investors, mostly public pension funds, has…
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Oil’s ‘Alternative Energy’ Scam
4-22-08 by dugan When I look at oil company profit reports–which will soon reveal truly rabid profit increases in the 1st quarter of 2008–I just ignore the line on "alternative energy" spending. That’s because it…
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Bush Blames $115 Oil on OPEC
NEWS RELEASE: CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305; or cell, 213-280-0175 April 16, 2008 New Oil Price Spike to $115 a Barrel Shows a "Two-Faced" White House That Takes Oil Off U.S. Markets While Blaming…
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Grease Rustlers Unite!
This wacky tale of grease rustling at a Northern California Burger King spins off a lot of threads. The police report said the wild-haired suspect was siphoning his 300-gallon haul of used fryer grease into…