Spike in Crude Oil Price to $88/Barrel Without New Run-Up in Pump Price Exposes Oil Industry Deception, Profiteering; Oil Companies’ Claim That Crude Oil Costs Drive Gasoline Price Makes No Sense With Today’s Barrel Prices…
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The Other Oil Addiction: Politicians Love That Tax Revenue
If you want to know (another) reason politicians don’t really want to step in and take action to lower gas prices, check this out from Associated Press on California’s current budget debate: The budget adopted…
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Congress Looking At “Hot Fuel” Scam
NEWS RELEASE: June 8, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (cell) 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, 310-392-0522 ext. 327 Congress Sees Motorists Cheated By "Hot Fuel" During Summer Driving Season; Group Urges Honest Measurement of Gasoline to Stop…
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Big Oil vs. OilWatchdog
06-04-07 by dugan It’s the most exciting debate since… Paris Hilton’s Prison Sentence? Read me taking on Tom Tanton of the Exxon-funded Institute for Energy Research, in the LA Times’ Opinion section “Dust-Up" online. We…
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State Regulators’ Favors to Oil
A state auditor’s investigation reports that a regulator and his supervisor in the California Department of Conservation appeared to be fast-tracking drilling or other permits to oil companies while the employees concealed their investments in…
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FTCR Demands Release of Information About Regulator With Oil Company Ties
NEWS RELEASE: March 23, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 213 280-0175, or Jamie Court, 310 392-0522, ext. 327 Santa Monica, CA — FTCR said a state auditor’s investigation reported today in the Sacramento Bee hints at…
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Oil Giants Succumb to Raccoon, Possum
Wholesale gasoline prices jumped 7 cents a gallon in the Los Angeles area Monday after a raccoon and a possum briefly shorted out power lines to the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance and a Shell Oil…
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Big Oil, Venezuela and the IMF
Even as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatens to take over oilfields run by ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and Shell, he’s using his oil money to undermine the International Monetary Fund, reports Bloomberg. And while the U.S….
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Big Oil’s October Surprises
NEWS RELEASE October 31, 2006 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392-0522 ext. 305, or cell (213) 280-0175, Jamie Court, ext. 327, Tim Hamilton, cell (360) 490-1077 Oil Companies’ Record 3rd Quarter Profit Reports Omitted "October Surprise"…
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Governor Stonewalls Relief at the Pump
NEWS RELEASE: June 15, 2006 CONTACT: Jamie Court, 310 392-0522 x327 or Judy Dugan x305 Gas price study finds nothing Santa Monica, CA — A report ordered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on possible gas-price gouging…
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Bush Oil Move Attacks the Wrong End of the Gasoline Price Crisis
NEWS RELEASE: April 25, 2006 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392-0522 ext. 305, Doug Heller, ext. 309 Withholding contributions to U.S. oil reserve does nothing to stop oil company profiteering Santa Monica, CA — President Bush’s…
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FTCR Expert Testifies Before U.S. Senate That Standard Oil Trust Has Been Resurrected, New Anti-Trust Laws Needed
NEWS RELEASE: February 1, 2006 CONTACT: Tim Hamilton (360) 495-4941 or Jamie Court (310) 392-0522 ext. 327 Washington, D.C. — Petroleum consultant Tim Hamilton, an expert for FTCR, testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee…