Press Release
Consumer Groups Seek Records of California Energy Commission On Disputed ‘Hot Fuel’ Report, After Conflict of Interest Charge Against Commissioner Santa Monica, CA — Consumer Watchdog and Public Citizen have filed a detailed request for…
Press Release
California Energy Board Seeks To Put Remedy for ‘Hot Fuel’ Ripoff in Deep Freeze — Group Calls for Immediate Fix Draft Report Accepts Industry Call for Ban on Temperature-Compensating Device, Denies Consumers Would Benefit From…
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11/24/08 by dugan Mark Twain never heard the phrase "shale oil," but he was dead on when he said of the West, "Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting. Whiskey-wise, I’d like a double sinker after…
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11-21-08 by dugan We at OilWatchdog have been relentlessly critical of Chevron’s faux-green ad campaigns (here, here, here and here.) I’ve recently heard from reporters who are sniffing around the ubiquitous image ads–the fortune Chevron…
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10-3-08 by dugan "Left undisciplined, unregulated and unsupervised, they created chaos." That was Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s acid, and correct, judgment of the nation’s financial behemoths after Congress forked over $700 billion taxpayer dollars to bail…
Smoking Gun
8-13-08 by dugan How did the "drill now, drill everywhere" gang persuade Americans that giving U.S. coastline and wilderness to oil companies is an energy policy? Credit goes to a brilliant deceiver who most people…
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8-7-08 by dugan Sometimes comedy is just the right cure. Here’s the last word, from Jon Stewart, on why no one should trust the folks saying we need to "drill now, drill everywhere" in the…
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8-5-08 by dugan Remember all the assertions earlier this year that demand for ethanol was skyrocketing the price of corn and other farm commodities? Oh, and possibly starving the world. OilWatchdog kept arguing that energy…
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06-26-08 by dugan It’s hard to do more than sputter over oil hitting $140 a barrel today, so let’s go for laughs. For instance, the federal Energy Information Administration’s 2008 predictions about oil. The EIA…
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06-19-08 by dugan It’s easy to understand why President Bush and Sen. John McCain are getting media and public traction from their demand that California, Florida and other coastal states open up their shorelines to…
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06-18-08 What I heard today in President Bush’s push to extract Western shale oil was this: Let’s subsidize Big Oil to turn Southern California into a desert and huge swaths of the West into polluted,…
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4-22-08 by dugan When I look at oil company profit reports–which will soon reveal truly rabid profit increases in the 1st quarter of 2008–I just ignore the line on "alternative energy" spending. That’s because it…
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4-18-08 by dugan Global warming denial is a nearly lost cause, so its proponents have a new issue: killer biofuels. Their simple, effective message is that biofuels–all of them–are the cause of rising food costs. Thus…
