06-19-07 Help! E-mail or call your Senator now (see suggested message below), to keep alive a fix for the ‘hot fuel’ ripoff. Senators intent on hauling home pork, scoring points with contributors and getting…
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Archive | Tag: hot fuel
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Can Lawmakers Resist Big Oil?
06-14-07 by dugan You wouldn’t have known from the MSM in California that three modest proposals for curbing Big Oil’s consumer abuses passed their first key committee votes in the California Legislature this week….
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Big Oil’s Finger To Congress
06-11-07 by dugan The House subcommittee investigating the ‘hot fuel" ripoff asked the CEOs of ExxonMobil and shell to testify at a hearing last Friday. Exxon’s Rex Tillerson and Shell’s John Hofmeister were no-shows, sending…
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The Hot-Fuel Toll In Your State
06-11-07 by dugan Here, for the data mavens among you, is the well-written House subcommittee report nailing the “hot fuel” ripoff, and charts (by gallons of energy and dollars lost) showing the toll to drivers…
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Congress Looking At “Hot Fuel” Scam
NEWS RELEASE: June 8, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (cell) 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, 310-392-0522 ext. 327 Congress Sees Motorists Cheated By "Hot Fuel" During Summer Driving Season; Group Urges Honest Measurement of Gasoline to Stop…
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Congress: Yep, Hot Fuel’s a Ripoff
06-08-07 by dugan We’re happy to see Congressional validation of the billion-dollar hot fuel ripoff: gasoline sold at high temperatures, offering less energy than motorists are paying for. Steve Everly, the Kansas City Star’s…
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Big Oil vs. OilWatchdog
06-04-07 by dugan It’s the most exciting debate since… Paris Hilton’s Prison Sentence? Read me taking on Tom Tanton of the Exxon-funded Institute for Energy Research, in the LA Times’ Opinion section “Dust-Up" online. We…
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Plan to Curb Big Oil on Right Track
NEWS RELEASE: May 17, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, cell: 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, cell: 310-874-9989 Nunez Plan to Curb Refineries is On Right Track, Says Group; As In Electricity Crisis, Close Oversight of Gasoline Producers…
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OilWatchdog Legislative Proposal
OilWatchdog’s May 16, 2007 <a href=”https://consumerwatchdog.org/resources/CALegLtrGasPrices.pdf”>outline for a legislative agenda </a>on California gasoline prices and biofuels development, sent to the California Legislature
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Fuel Prices Driving Spending Cuts
NEWS RELEASE: May 16, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392 0522, ext. 305; cell 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell 310-874-9989 Group Sees Fuel Prices Driving Food Price Increase and Consumer Spending Cuts; Letter…
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Hot Fuel Breaks Cold Silence?
5-9-07 by Court Will today’s front page Los Angeles Times story, "You may not be getting all you pay for at the pump" help stop at least one gasoline scam? The article recounts how the…
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Congress: CA Gas Supply Plan?
NEWS RELEASE: April 10, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, cell: 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989 Congress Presses Refiners on California’s Gasoline Price Spike, Supply Restrictions; Rep. Kucinich Requests Oil Companies’…
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‘Hot Fuel’ Action Gets Hotter
An Oregon fiscal analyst has filed a class action lawsuit against the major oil companies alleging that the sale of motor fuel above a certain temperature cheats motorists. The suit by Shonna Butler, reported by…