10-20-08 by dugan Right after I finished the previous post, on hard evidence that green policies are solid job creators, I found the perfect illustration of how industry–especially the oil industry–tries to sabotage…
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Panic in the oil business
10-16-08 by dugan As the price of oil dropped today to less than $70 a barrel (that would be $1.67 a barrel), the industry was in a panic. OPEC, the Prmarily Middle Eastern oil…
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Stations Make More Per Gallon
Gas Stations Make More Pennies on the Gallon By Ryan Randazzo, THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC October 16, 2008 Drivers are welcoming the continued drop in prices of gasoline, but the average cost of a gallon of…
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Pump prices oughta be lower
10-9-08 by dugan When oil prices dropped to under $78 a barrel today, I asked our friend Insider to take a look at why gasoline prices are going down so much more slowly than the…
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Silence of the Greens
10-2-08 by dugan OilWatchdog loathes greenwash P.R. by oil companies pretending to be good green citizens. But a revelatory new book points to major environmental groups as enablers of this corporate greenwash. Christine…
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Petunia in the Mojave
10-1-06 by dugan Back from the dead. No, not just the bailout bill, but tax credits for wind and solar energy projects, which for months have been a pawn in the battles of dysfunctional…
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Exxon’s new “Pal-in” high places
9-30-08 by dugan Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has opposed any federal declaration that polar bears are endangered, saying she checked the research and it backs up her denials of human-caused global warmin. But her "research"…
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Diesel use drops like rock
9-26-08 by dugan Here’s an alarming statistic that won’t show up in government economic reports for a few months: Diesel purchases at truck stops in August were down 7.8% from a year ago. Most of…
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Renewable energy update
9-26-08 by dugan Friday update: The House passed its version of the renewable energy tax credit, but it’s still a long shot that the Senate will accept all the changes: three bills instead of one,…
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Renewable energy credit fading
9-25-08 by dugan The House was supposed to take up a Senate tax bill today that would, among other things, extend a crucial renewable energy tax credit that will otherwise expire at the end of…
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OWD and “Black Gold” on CNBC
9-24-08 by dugan Yes, it’s hard to give up an episode of CSI, but take a look tonight at a CNBC investigative documentary, "Black Gold," airing at 9:30 Eastern (or whenever President Bush’s speech on…
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Itty bitty energy bill
9-23-08 by dugan Hopes for a comprehensive energy policy or energy policy this year are long over, but the Senate today limped to approval of the barest minimum–an extension of wind and solar power tax…
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Exxon’s mastodon strategy
9-22-08 by dugan Why is Exxon’s stock down 16% since the beginning of this year? Because it’s sitting on a cash hoard of $39 billion, spending more on buying back its own stock than producing…