8-11-08 by dugan For a while, it looked like the discount chain Costco might be the pioneer in offering drivers a truly fair deal on gasoline by doing…
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Costco caves on ‘hot fuel’
Archive | Tag: hot fuel
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Greed for pennies
Just when you think big oil companies like ExxonMobil might be content with tens of billions of yearly profits, they surprise you by grasping for pennies. This time it’s not just the driver at the…
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Hot summer, hot fuel
6-04-08 by dugan One of the reasons I hear for the continued rise in natural gas prices is that it’s going to be a very hot summer in much of the country. Lots of air…
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“Hot Fuel” Fix Urgent
NEWS RELEASE Zooming Oil Price Makes "Hot Fuel" Fix More Urgent as Memorial Day Approaches Consumer Groups Criticize Oil Industry Resistance to Fixing Hidden Charge at Pump That Costs U.S. Drivers Close to $3 Billion…
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Milk Is Sold Fairly; Not Gas
4-23-08 by dugan Edited 4/23, 5:00 p.m. to use exact temperature benchmarks, as provided by K. Floren. Around a meeting table at the California Energy Commission today, some of us were stifling yawns. Then,…
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Yep, We have Hot Fuel
4-01-08 (4/02 correction: Average California gasoline temperature based on raw data of study is 71.1 degrees, not 76.4, based on raw data from state study). A year-long study of gasoline temperatures in the state…
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Hot Fuel’s Alternate Universe
3-24-08 by dugan Sometimes when an argument doesn’t make sense, it’s the argument’s fault. That was my conclusion when a weights and measures official from New York came to the California Energy Commision…
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CA Gas Price Tops Hawaii
NEWS RELEASE – Contact: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, x 305 (cell: 213 280-0175), or Jamie Court, x 327 Californians Say Aloha (in the Bye-Bye Sense) to Their Savings — State Gasoline Price Tops Hawaii California’s Record…
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Three-Penny Operatics
3-12-08 by dugan When oil marketing lobbyists argue that motorists don’t need or deserve a fix for the "hot fuel" ripoff, their fallback is that a consumer loss of a few cents a…
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Fuel Issue Sizzles in DC, CA
3-06-08 by dugan $4.00 gasoline isn’t a prediction any more, despite the fact that President Bush hadn’t heard a word about it. There are California stations charging up to $3.99 for regular and nearly…
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How Hot Fuel Fix Got Axed
2-22-08 by dugan Is this week’s early-stage victory for a national lawsuit against the "hot fuel" ripoff important? Ever more so, Considering the collapse of would-be regulation to fix it. Here’s a memo…
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National ‘Hot Fuel’ Suit Update
Consumer Victory as National ‘Hot Fuel’ Lawsuit Moves Forward on All Counts Federal District Judge in Kansas City Refuses to Dismiss Suit Against Petroleum Marketers Alleging Deceptive Sale of Gasoline, Diesel Fuel Santa Monica, CA…
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Wacky Weights ‘n Measures
1-28-08 by dugan A t-shirt widely sold in Albuquerque, N.M., where the National Conference on Weights and Measures is meeting, says: "Keep the Quirky in ‘Querque." Today was "Quirky" and far, far more at…