06-30-09 by dugan I choked on my black-bean enchilada when an e-mail alert popped up about a new bill in the Senate. Oklahoma oil and natural gas billionaire T. Boone Pickens, who failed miserably last…
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Oil guys just make it up. Again.
06-03-09 by dugan The investigative journalists of the nonprofit ProPublica are dogged (and mostly alone these days) in following the oil industry’s push to get natural gas out of shale. How do they…
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Pickens’ Fickle Promises
10-20-08 by dugan Here’s something for Californians to consider when judging the promises made by T. Boone Pickens abouit his personal ballot initiative, Proposition 10. The $5 billion bond initiative would take taxpayer…
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Cap and Trade Wars
10-20-08 by dugan Right after I finished the previous post, on hard evidence that green policies are solid job creators, I found the perfect illustration of how industry–especially the oil industry–tries to sabotage…
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Beware T. Boone Pickens
7-9-08 by dugan I woke up this morning and found out that oilman T. Boone Pickens may save the Earth–at least according to much of the MSM. Here’s USA Today on energy billionaire Pickens’…
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Gov’t Staffer Takes First Class Flight to Corporate Job
The Executive Director of the California Public Utilities Commission, Steve Larson, announced that he was leaving the PUC to take a job at the Australian oil giant Woodside, according to Mark Martin, who is reporting…
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Is DiFi Too Close To Chevron?
04-12-07 by Court What is the matter with Dianne Feinstein? First she tries to torpedo House-passed legislation forcing oil companies to pay royalties on their offshore drilling leases. Feinstein called the the Dems’ first-100 day…