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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Archive | Tag: environment
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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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Chevron: Drill Less, Profit More
NEWS RELEASE: Chevron Profits: Drill Less, Profit More Chevron Data Shows Industry Lag in Producing New Oil from U.S. Source — Lower Production Shows Failure of Investment, Not Lack of Oil, Says Watchdog Santa…
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Exxon: ‘Pumping Cash, Not Oil’
NEWS RELEASE: Exxon: ‘Pumping Cash, Not Oil’ Exxon’s ‘Biggest Profit in the World’ Is Actually Bigger; $8 Billion in Unproductive Share Buybacks Should be Counted, Says Group Shell, No. 2 Oil Co., Also Hits New…
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Murder in the U.S. Senate
7-30-08 by dugan The noise, hearings and promises in Congress about oil prices and energy relief are adding up to precisely zero result. Even the most modest, targeted bills are falling off the…
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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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What comes after newspapers?
7-22-08 by dugan The cratering of the L.A. Times and the rest of Tribune Co. has me worrying, again, about who will hold the powerful, the corrupt and the incompetent to account when all the…
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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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Engrave it on the fender
7-10-08 by dugan The state of California will require all 2009 and later cars to be labeled with their global warming scores, as well as the current air pollution/smog scores. The 1-10 best-to-worst scores will…
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Beware T. Boone Pickens
7-9-08 by dugan I woke up this morning and found out that oilman T. Boone Pickens may save the Earth–at least according to much of the MSM. Here’s USA Today on energy billionaire Pickens’…
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First Exxon Valdez, now BP
When we have a White House that opens its arms to the oil industry, we’re bound to end up with judges who have similar sympathies. So it was in the Supreme Court’s slash job on…
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Government’s cracked crystal ball
06-26-08 by dugan It’s hard to do more than sputter over oil hitting $140 a barrel today, so let’s go for laughs. For instance, the federal Energy Information Administration’s 2008 predictions about oil. The EIA…
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Exxon Valdez and coastal drilling
06-25-08 by dugan Today’s big win by Exxon in the U.S. Supreme Court might make Americans think twice about letting Exxon and friends resume drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. If the…