10-08-07 by dugan I’ve heard lots of arguments by gasoline distributors and retail chains about why they "can’t" adjust retail fuel sales for temperature expansion: "We’ve always done it this way, no one would benefit,…
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Truckstop Tale
09-26-07 by dugan There’s no one more upset about the "hot fuel" ripoff than independent truckers, who lose hundreds of dollars a year on lost energy from heat-expanded fuel. They also find truck stops…
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Not Cooking With Gas In CA
9-24-07 by Court Turns out that ambitious reform plan Speaker Nunez promoted for the cameras this summer has fizzled. Surprise, surpise. The only legislation on Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk at the end of session are…
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Issa Challenged On “Hot Fuel” Rip-off
NEWS RELEASE September 18, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, or cell: 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, or cell: 310-874-9989 Consumer Group Challenges Rep. Darrell Issa On "Hot Fuel" Ripoff of Motorists; Congressman…
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Gov. Urged To Veto AB 868
NEWS RELEASE September 17, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 213-280-0175 (cell), or Jamie Court, 310-392-0522 ext. 327 Gov. Schwarzenegger Urged to Veto Fake ‘Consumer Protection’ on Hot Fuel Rip-off; Foundation Says Legislation, AB868, Will Delay or…
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Cruising On the Company Dime
Tuesday night’s big dinner outing at the Western Weights and Measures Conference was a nice social occasion, a touristy dinner cruise on a calm Lake Tahoe. The sky was alive with stars we never see…
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Insider’s Theory On FTC/Issa Ghost Writing
9-11-07 by Court Our source in the industry, Insider, offers these observations about how the oil industry has historically stolen Congress’s and the FTC’s masthead: As Oilwatchdog.org demands that Rep. Darrell Issa of…
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FTC Falls on Its Sword
The guys (yeah, it’s mostly guys) at the Western Weights and Measures Association conference here in Tahoe are serious about their math, but they have a great sense of humor. Lately the joke is on…
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Snakes in Tahoe
I jokingly suggested in front of the microphone yesterday that if gasoline marketers don’t want to sell fuel compensated for temperature, they should just post the temperature of the fuel in their underground tanks right…
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The Crown for Cynicism Goes To….
09-10-07 by Dugan The first person to tell me today that Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez’s fake cure for the "hot fuel ripoff" had passed the Legislature was from an oil marketing organization. He was…
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FTC’s Illiterate “Hot Fuel” Science
NEWS RELEASE September 10, 2007 CONTACT: John Siebert, OOIDA, 816 229-5791, or Judy Dugan, FTCR & OilWatchdog.org, 213-280-0175 FTC Slammed For ‘Illiterate Science’ and Political Interference In Its Official Opinion Opposing "Hot Fuel" Fix; Truckers,…
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Tablespoons of What?
09-07-07 by dugan It’s good to have a Congress unafraid to throw facts in the face of misinformation. Rep. Dennis Kucinich and the staff of his Domestic Policy subcommittee today answered the Federal Trade Commission’s…
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“Hot Fuel” Rips Off DC Drivers
NEWS RELEASE August 30, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305 or cell, 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, cell: 310-874-9989 (ISDN connection available, TV interviews via satellite by appointment through Friday) Labor Day Weekend Gives Oil…