3-19-08 by dugan There’s no single path to an affordable and clean energy future, and that’s a good thing. After all, the monoculture of petroleum dependence has brought us $4.00 a gallon gasoline,…
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Oil, Farm Prices, Hunger
3-17-08 by dugan The hype that ethanol is the only driver of food grain prices is persistent and wrong. Here’s a short and to the point video from CNNMoney (thanks to Insider for…
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Inuits vs. Exxon: Might Work
2-28-08 by dugan It’s a Hail-Mary pass, but the Alaskan Inuit lawsuit against the oil industry on global warming just might work. It may come down to how the judge views the definition of…
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All Hail Exxon
2-14-08 by dugan (and thanks to Mark Reback for the tip) I can’t believe Investors Business Daily would do so little checking of an editorial on Tuesday slamming the critics of ExxonMobil, from…
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Exxon, the Worldwide Scrooge
2-07-08 by dugan You’d think that a company making nearly $41 billion in yearly profit in 2007 would be profligate in its charitable giving. We don’t know yet what Exxon Mobil’s 2007 total was,…
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Big Oil’s Big Bribes?
01-31-08 by dugan I absolutely can’t vouch for the truth of this story, but it’s no wonder that people would believe it. A Bahraini publication claims that oil companies are offering Iraqi legislators $5…
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Energy Traders Get Their Manufactured $100-Oil Dream, Consumers Brace for $4.00 Gasoline
Group Calls on Congress to Curb Wild Speculation in Energy Markets Speculators ginned up alarm over Nigerian gang violence, Pakistani unrest and shaky predictions on future OPEC capacity to drive crude oil prices to…
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Exxon’s Terrorism Card
12-30-07 by dugan The story sounds familiar: Rural villagers in an unsettled part of the world accuse a big U.S. oil company of supporting and abetting the atrocities of government soldiers. It could be…
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No Room for Denial
11-17-07 by dugan Some disasters seem just too enormous to grasp. Every version of the U.N. climate change report is more dire and more certain about the effects of climate change. The final…
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The ‘Dictator Penalty’
11-16-07 by dugan Bought any of that Chevron gasoline currently averaging more than $3.40 a gallon in California? A few pennies of that will now go to pay Chevron’s $30 million settlement of a…
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From Your Pocket to Putin’s
11-10-07 by dugan Here’s a striking tale from the Washington Post on the global power shift of $100 oil, mainly to the benefit of dictators and corrupt proto-despots. Japan is suffering because it…
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Guns and Oil
11-09-07 by dugan Here’s an interesting cross-fertilization in the news. The Wall Street Journal posts a business item on how rising oil prices mean that Nigeria will keep more of the oil pumped by Exxon,…
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Real Reasons for $88 a Barrel
10-17-07 by dugan Oil is touching $88 a barrel because Turkey is poised for military raids inside Iraq against Kurdish rebels. Oh, what rubbish. Every time the price of oil goes up $3 or…