06-20-08 by dugan I’ve gotten some e-mails telling OilWatchdog that it’s off course in asking drivers to send their gas bills to Congress and demand some action to get prices down. One group says we…
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The lie of coastal oil drilling
06-19-08 by dugan It’s easy to understand why President Bush and Sen. John McCain are getting media and public traction from their demand that California, Florida and other coastal states open up their shorelines to…
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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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Brits’ Cold Shoulder to Exxon
8-19-08 by dugan The shareholder revolt against Exxon is going global. Four big institutional investors in Britain have joined a shareholder resolution demanding that Exxon have an independent chairman of the board, and the new…
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Chevron Busts Family Budgets
Chevron Busts Family Budgets In Struggling California Town Of Casmalia State PUC Grants Oil Giant’s Water Company 89.7 Percent Rate Increase; Chevron Wanted 138 Percent CONTACT: John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522, ext 317; or cell: 310-292-1902…
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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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Exxon Is Holdout on MTBE
5-8-08 by dugan A national lawsuit over water pollution from a gasoline additive was more than half-settled yesterday when four of the five major oil comanies agreed to pay $423 million in cleanup and other…
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Rockefellers: Change Exxon
04-30-08 by simpson What’s known as America’s First Family of Oil, the Rockefellers, wants Exxon Mobil, the oil giant descended from John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, to change it is ways. They’re worried the company…
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Who’ll Set Bush Straight?
4-22-08 by dugan The headlne today seemed promising: "Bush Voices Concern About Record Oil Price." It’d be a step forward from a president who recently said he’d never heard a thing about…
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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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The ‘Killer Biofuels’ Claque
4-18-08 by dugan Global warming denial is a nearly lost cause, so its proponents have a new issue: killer biofuels. Their simple, effective message is that biofuels–all of them–are the cause of rising food costs. Thus…