12-24-08 by dugan The White House giveaways have been so fast and furious that they’re hard to track. But here are a couple of recent tales that round up the oil industry loot in this…
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Archive | Tag: environment
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Fusion Soon, Chevy Volt When?
12-19-08 by dugan Dan Neil in the LA Times reports today that he got 52 mpg city/highway in a test drive of the production model of the Ford Fusion hybrid, in comfort. Too…
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Auto Bailout’s Big, Bad Sticks
12-19-08 by dugan Do I have this right? A giant financial/insurance company, AIG, gets two taxpayer bailouts totaling $150 billion, no strings attached, which does zero to help distressed homeowners or the frozen credit…
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Putting energy policy on track
12-17-08 by dugan The New York Times today offered up a tight list of all the wrongs that the new Interior Secretary, Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado, will face the minute he walks into his…
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First, Undo the Harm*
Sometimes good news mostly illumines the bad news that went before. Take president-elect Obama’s appointment of a four-person "energy and environment" team, including Energy Secretary-designee Steven Chu, Interior Secretary-designee Ken Salazar and a "climate czar,"…
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How to kill green energy
12-11-08 by dugan Two or three of us at Consumer Watchdog, OilWatchdog’s parent group, have gotten calls today asking our endorsement for the city of Los Angeles’ "Green Energy/Good Jobs Act" on the city’s March…
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Amtrak model for Big 3?
12-3-08 by dugan Michael Moore’s been wrapped up for the last several years with failing health care, the failed Bush Administration and the war in Iraq. But the author/moviemaker’s enduring fascination is Detroit iron. He…
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Waxman win a harbinger?
11-20-08 by dugan Henry Waxman’s close victory today over Rep. John Dingell to chair the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee should mean better days for a U.S. energy policy focused on independence from fossil…
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What Exxon owes us ‘sissies’
11-17-08 by dugan Sitting inside the wreckage of the rest of the U.S. economy, Exxon Corp. beams with fiscal health. It is protected by its insular, petroleum-only culture, as described in a long NY Times…
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CEOs’ sudden love for Dingell
11-11-08 by dugan A big catfight among two top liberals in the House of Representatives? Sheesh, can’t they get along for a few months while the president-elect gets a grip? It’s not like most people…
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Arnold’s oil tax epiphany?
11-6-08 by dugan I’ve been out of town for several days, and the news today makes me wonder if the governor of California had a near-religious epiphany while I was gone. Arnold Schwarzenegger just embraced…
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Greenwash extraordinaire
10-26-08 by dugan Chevron tries harder. Nope, not to cut fuel prices or compete to be first in renewable energy. For Chevron it’s all about hearts and minds, as another full-page color ad in the…
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Chevron’s emit-for-free strategy
10-23-08 by dugan Australia has a lot in common with the United States. It’s a nation of immigrants with a cowboy-style history and a strong love of individual rights. Aussies do put shrimp instead of…